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  • Casuall flight, or feeding of birds; called Augury: Sometimes in the Entrayles of a sacrificed beast; which was Aruspicina:

    Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633

  • The phrenologist made all sorts of predictions of what I should be and do, which proved about as near the truth as those recorded in Miss Edith Thomas's charming little poem, "Augury," which some of us were reading the other day.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

  • The phrenologist made all sorts of predictions of what I should be and do, which proved about as near the truth as those recorded in Miss Edith Thomas's charming little poem, "Augury," which some of us were reading the other day.

    Over the Teacups Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

  • Augury by Jennifer Hathaway on Sunday, Apr 19, 2009 at 10: 46: 03 PM portent .... by Suzana Megles on Monday, Apr 20, 2009 at 8: 14: 44 AM

    A New Respect for William Blakes' Auguries of Innocence 2009

  • London, whether Masquerading, or Tossing of Coffee − Grounds, I know not; but probably the latter; it being an Augury very much in vogue and as true, as any by which Sidrofel prognosticated, even when he too the Boy's Kite for a blazing Comet; and as useful too as Scates in

    The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

  • London, whether Masquerading, or Tossing of Coffee − Grounds, I know not; but probably the latter; it being an Augury very much in vogue and as true, as any by which Sidrofel prognosticated, even when he too the Boy's Kite for a blazing Comet; and as useful too as Scates in

    The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

  • Augury -- that is, the art of divination by observing the behaviour of birds -- was extensively cultivated by the Etrurians and Romans. 32 It is still used, I believe, by the natives of Samoa.

    Bygone Beliefs 1969

  • Augury, it is urged, is able from these indications to foretell what is to happen not merely to the universe as a whole, but even to individuals, and this not merely as regards external conditions of fortune but even as to the events of the mind.

    The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

  • Thus far the Augury and the Prophecy and the Preface of the Tale, and the

    The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge Unknown

  • He revived many old religious customs, such as the Augury of Public

    Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine James Sands Elliott

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