Auguries

No, I still didn't look up the word "auguries" but I imagine it means the various and diverse occasions of innocence. ❋ Unknown (2009)

[32] This is not quite an accurate definition, as "auguries" were also obtained from other animals and from celestial phenomena (e.g. lightning), etc. ❋ Unknown (1969)

As Lucian goes on to relate, the fraudster set himself up in Asia Minor as an oracle—issuing auguries through a hand puppet—and apparently took in everyone from the emperor on down. ❋ Mary Beard (2011)

The tally for 2011 is not complete, but the auguries are ominous. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The auguries are not good: Doug gets into a spat with a local girl minutes after he arrives, and his volatile father has already hit him and yelled at his mother. ❋ Meghan Cox Gurdon (2011)

If they're to be read, as director Martin Irvine suggested, as auguries of what's to come, put my money on the cliche of "the more things change." ❋ Jessica Dawson (2011)

I hope I am proved wrong, but the auguries for policy innovation are not bright. ❋ Unknown (2011)

This man, noticing that a number of people were now idling on the path and that the whole force was being held up by a seer who was taking the auguries, asked the seer why they were stopping. ❋ James L. Kugel (2011)

Bibulus retaliated by letting it be known that he was perpetually on his roof, studying the auguries, and that they were consistently unfavorable—thus no official business could legally be transacted. ❋ ROBERT HARRIS (2010)

One was designed to stop any consul in the future from behaving like Bibulus, by restricting the ancient right to proclaim unfavorable auguries. ❋ ROBERT HARRIS (2010)

After the auguries had been taken, Celer got to his feet to declare that a dispatch had just arrived from Caesar in Further Spain, which he now proposed to read. ❋ ROBERT HARRIS (2010)

He further insisted that the law be declared invalid because the auguries had been unfavorable. ❋ ROBERT HARRIS (2010)

His curule chair was placed on the doorstep and he sat there in the shade, reading through some letters, surrounded by his lictors, waiting for the auguries to be taken. ❋ ROBERT HARRIS (2010)

They are bad auguries for our own futures as well. ❋ Robert Zevin (2010)

As the news about the Gulf oil spill took a turn for the worse in April, with auguries of an unprecedented environmental catastrophe, the media began to take its interpretative cues from a previous disaster that had been, disastrously, underestimated in scale: Will this, as the Associated Press asked, be Obama's Katrina? ❋ Unknown (2010)

In fact, by all auguries, they are modern and liberated Muslims who seem rather embarrassed by the hot-headed jihadis who speak for their religion. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"Hey look, it is [the pineapple] [pirates], they have come to take our [fruits]!" -- Captain of The Augury ❋ Pineapple History (2009)

auguri ❋ Blaaaaake (2010)

[Loitering] through the cyber alleys while [sifting] and decoding the many graffiti creations, he auguried the beginnings of the programmatic art forms - visual representations that are [liberated] through the shifting of binaries rather than paint ❋ Amsee22 (2018)

"Want to go to Augury Rock to go Queen [Farming]?" "Meet me in Augury Dist-1 to go [bother] that [Necro]" ❋ Lea Ramona (2006)