augury

We'd better get used to being without a government because it is an augury of the future.

And by those criteria, the auguries still look pretty good.

The augury should have been a simple one, for but a single answer was needed: to go now, or to wait.

And yet, the message of the augury is clear in one respect.

A lot of things could happen, but the auguries are grim.

There is always some room for error in these auguries.

Maybe it was the same power that shaped the augury.

Does the very act of casting an augury change events?

It was an augury for a life of white bowls.

The auguries for the marriage were ominous from the start.

It is not a simple thing to create the glass needed for such specific augury.

But the meeting got under way at last with the prayers and auguries.

The two leaders hoped that this was an augury for the future.

How had the augury known about the riders in her dream?

Most of the time the auguries don't show anything at all, and nothing special is going to happen during the child's life.

They seemed an augury of what the country he had discovered and settled might become.

The auguries for the present exhibition could hardly have been better.

So I tried to arrange an augury for the coming birth.

And the gods speak to him through the augury, or so he claims.

The auguries for the future could then be read.

There could be no better auguries for germination and growth.

They have other ways as well, of course, of which augury is but one.

The auguries in the sheep I sacrificed this morning were quite clear.

It is rumoured that she comes in answer to augury.

I will not trouble you with lengthy explanations of augury.