augurous

Looking at the thing in this light, we derive extreme consolation from the final augurous words of our last citation -- "pallentem morte futurâ" -- which we oppose with confidence to the appalling final prophecy of Pope, and believe that the goddess is, as the nymphs were said to be, exceedingly long-lived, but not immortal.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 Various

But no living thing confronted her -- the tall, bent figure of the Cimbri Prophetess gleamed ghostly white upon the wall, and the bright blue augurous eyes seemed to count the dripping blood-drops; and the unbroken, solemn silence of night brooded over all things, hushing even the chime of sheep-bells, that had died away among the elm arches.

St. Elmo 1872

The lonely woman looked upward, appealingly, and there upon the wall she met -- not as formerly, the gleaming, augurous, inexorable eyes of the Cimbrian Prophetess -- but the pitying God's gaze of Titian's

St. Elmo 1872

The lonely woman looked upward, appealingly, and there upon the wall she met -- not as formerly, the gleaming, augurous, inexorable eyes of the Cimbrian Prophetess -- but the pitying God's gaze of Titian's Jesus.

St. Elmo. A Novel. Augusta Jane 1867

But no living thing confronted her -- the tall, bent figure of the Cimbri Prophetess gleamed ghostly white upon the wall, and the bright blue augurous eyes seemed to count the dripping blood-drops; and the unbroken, solemn silence of night brooded over all things, hushing even the chime of sheep-bells, that had died away among the elm arches.

St. Elmo. A Novel. Augusta Jane 1867