Augury

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

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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