augury

How To Use augury In A Sentence

• The looming spectres raised by her mother’s information, the wearing sense of being over-weighted in the race, were driving her to a Hamlet-like fantasticism and defiance of augury; moreover, she was abroad. The Hand of Ethelberta
• A brace of dead geese, embodying the classical Roman method of augury, act as an image of mortality.
• A confirmation of this augury is the fact that the cast of the community became decidedly more Fourieristic before it disbanded; and it is not impossible that another generation might have decolorized and seriously deformed human existence among them. A Study Of Hawthorne
• She was thrice widowed, and she claimed to possess the gift of augury.
• he hoped it was an augury
• The looming spectres raised by her mother's information, the wearing sense of being over-weighted in the race, were driving her to a Hamlet-like fantasticism and defiance of augury; moreover, she was abroad. The Hand of Ethelberta
• As Hamlet remarked, ‘We defy augury… The readiness is all’.
• His waistband claimed the azoth; it was possible that augury would provide some hint of what he ought to do with it. Calde of the Long Sun
• Like the birds of augury, the living beings of the heavens, having no lot or part with us, may serve incidentally to foreshow the future, but they have absolutely no main function in our regard. The Six Enneads.
• Another form of augury was the examination of the marks on the carapax of a tortoise; thus the Martial King in 146 consulted, and found unfavourable, such marks -- this was before attacking the last Ancient China Simplified