AUSPICE in a Sentence

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For AUSPICE, below is one of 12 sentences:
Most willingly, duke; under your auspices I will receive any person you please, but you must not expect me to be too confiding.

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 Meanings and Examples of AUSPICE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
auspice
 n.  a favorable omen
Classic Sentence:
1  And contriving, in this way to make his designs tally with the auspices, he joined battle, without the army knowing that the ordinances of religion had in any degree been disregarded.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV.
2  But if any consul or other leader ever joined battle contrary to the auspices, the Romans would punish him, as they did Claudius Pulcher.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXIII.
3  To meet you under such pleasant auspices and to have the opportunity of a personal observation of your work is indeed most gratifying.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XVII.
4  Let me take this opportunity of congratulating you most heartily and sincerely upon the great success of the exercises provided for and entertainment furnished us under your auspices during our visit to Tuskegee.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XVII.
5  "These are mournful auspices to accompany a betrothal," sighed poor Renee.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6. The Deputy Procureur du Roi.
6  Most willingly, duke; under your auspices I will receive any person you please, but you must not expect me to be too confiding.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10. The King's Closet at the Tuileries.
7  When, however, they gained the flattened surface of the mountain-top, and approached the eastern precipice, she recognized the spot to which she had once before been led under the more friendly auspices of the scout.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
8  But, in a moment of so many serious and important duties, this single act of juvenile fortitude did not attract the general notice and commendation it would have received under milder auspices.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 31
9  With gods' auspices to my thinking, and with Juno's favour, hath the Ilian fleet held on hither before the gale.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FOURTH
Example Sentence:
1  The community centre was set up under the auspices of a government initiative.
2  Financial aid is being provided to the country under the auspices of the International Monetary Fund.
3  Luck! -- the splendor of it was beyond all imagination! Six hundred dollars was money enough to make half a dozen boys rich! Here was treasure-hunting under the happiest auspices -- there would not be any bothersome uncertainty as to where to dig.