Citations:augury


 * 1843 &mdash; ... though their cries were drowned in the wild chant of the priests, who read in their tears a favourable augury for their petition. &mdash; William H. Prescott, History of the Conquest of Mexico, Book 1, Chapter 3
 * 1843 &mdash; They carried with them a noble victim, the flower of their captives, and an apparatus for kindling the new fire, the success of which was an augury of the renewal of the cycle. &mdash; William H. Prescott, History of the Conquest of Mexico, Book 1, Chapter 4
 * 1977 &mdash; “Short circuit, long night,” a proverb of ill augury returns to the mind of the gravedigger and to all of us, imagining ourselves (like Arcanum One, known as The Juggler) the engineers who at that moment are desperately dismantling the great Mechanical Brain to discover the fault in the confusion of springs, spools, electrodes, odd and ends. &mdash; Italo Calvino, The Castle of Crossed Destinies, Part 2, Chapter 5, 1969. Translated from Italian by William Weaver.
 * 1996 &mdash; The emperor Augustus had wanted to take that monster to Rome, but an unfavorable augury prevented him from doing so. &mdash; Harry Mulisch, The Discovery of Heaven, Chapter 37, 1992. As translated by Paul Vincent