1 Indeed you are mistaken there, sir; I should never augur want of spirit from Captain Benwick's manners.
2 The colonnade above him made him think vaguely of an ancient temple and the ashplant on which he leaned wearily of the curved stick of an augur.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 5 3 Thymbraeus smites massive Osiris with the sword, Mnestheus slays Arcetius, Achates Epulo, Gyas Ufens: Tolumnius the augur himself goes down, he who had hurled the first weapon against the foe.
4 The religion of the Gentiles had its beginning in the responses of the oracles and in the prognostics of the augurs and soothsayers.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII. 5 Amongst any other population, or at a later period in the history of New England, the grim rigidity that petrified the bearded physiognomies of these good people would have augured some awful business in hand.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In II. THE MARKET-PLACE 6 From the first she had augured ill of Mme.
7 Few augured the possibility that the encounter could terminate well for the Disinherited Knight, yet his courage and gallantry secured the general good wishes of the spectators.
8 Thenardier augured well from the fact.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND 9 At this a sudden sign meets their eyes, mighty in augural presage, as the high event taught thereafter, and in late days boding seers prophesied of the omen.