This is better behaviour than that of my fellow augur Antony, who carries an actress in a sedan among his lictors.
Not thus you fly your female foes by night, Nor shun the feast, when the full bowls invite; When to fat offerings the glad augur calls, And the shrill horn-pipe sounds to bacchanals.
The fatal augur falls, by whose command The truce was broken, and whose lance, embrued With Trojan blood, the unhappy fight renewed.
He owns indeed that in the statue, the augur is not distinguished either by his habit or emblems; and he might have added, neither is the stone a cotes.
The Arrotino which Smollett so greatly admired, and which the delusive Bianchi declared to be a representation of the Augur Attus Naevius, is now described as "A Scythian whetting his knife to flay Marsyas.
When the Augur died I betook myself to the Pontiff of the same name and family.
Mr. Pitt agreed with Mr. Fox, that from a full discussion of the subject there was every reason to augur that the abolition would be adopted.
Where shall I find language to paint, in appropriate colours, the horror of mind brought on by thoughts of their future unknown destination, of which they can augurnothing but misery from all that they have yet seen?
It was as Ottilie the Augur that, upon the death of the old chief, she had chosen Franklin the Father of Many Thieves to take over the leadership of Mankind since he stimulated the most propitious omens.
It was as Ottilie theAugur that she could pick out the one new-born babe in a litter of three that had to be destroyed because, in some way or other, it would one day bring death to its people.
We augur ill, and are uneasy for our cousins or nephews, when we see them giving themselves airs, and knowing better than their betters.
On the left, the infantry did not come up until later in the day; but at 2 o'clock an assault was opened on the centre and left of centre by the divisions under Major-General Augur and Brigadier-General Sherman.
Major-General Augur had an encounter with a portion of the enemy on the Bayou Sara road in the direction of Baton Rouge, which resulted in the repulse of the enemy, with heavy loss.
On the 23d a junction was effected with the advance of Major-General Augur and Brigadier-General Sherman, our line occupying the Bayou Sara road at a distance five miles from Port Hudson.
Her demeanour in the fortnight before her marriage was unlike what her friends had ever seen, and made them augur better for Mr. Prendergast's venture.
His rod the Augur waves above the ground, And cries, "In Tina's name I bless the soil.
But now the listening Augur to the side 10 Of Arthur moves; and, signing silently, The handmaid children from the chamber glide, And AEgle followeth slow, with drooping eye.
The Augur (a purely Etruscan name and office) was the highest power in the state.
It is not surprising that the Augurshould know Phoenician, for we have only to suppose that he maintained, as well as he could in his retreat, the knowledge common among his priestly forefathers.
The Augur is here supposed to speak Phoenician as the parent language of Arthur's native Celtic.
In the earlier Etruscan history, the Augur and the king were unquestionably united in one person.
His rod theAugur waves above the ground, 81 And cries, "In Tina's name I bless the soil.
The people then gave a loud shout, and the king's contempt for the augur was turned into admiration.
At these words the people burst out a laughing, but the augur did not appear at all moved.
The augur at first with face turned to the north, holding a crooked staff in his hand, describes a line which cuts the heavens in two sections; the part to the right is favorable, to the left unfavorable.
The augur regarded the birds that flew in this square: some like the eagle have a lucky significance; others like the owl presage evil.
Tis an ill augur to my suit," he muttered hastily.
The words of the augur at Brundisium are having in truth a strange fulfillment.
When I was sailing away from Brundisium, the augur foretold for me an unusual experience.
The reward of love cannot be the experience of which the augur spoke at Brundisium.
The prediction of the augur at Brundisium has been strikingly fulfilled.
Is the word of the augur at Brundisium beginning to be fulfilled?
If this was what the augur meant, no Roman in the days of Tiberius has ever set forth upon a more serious adventure.
Helenus, the chief augur of Troy, commands Hector to return to the city, in order to appoint a solemn procession of the queen and the Trojan matrons to the temple of Minerva, to entreat her to remove Diomed from the fight.
I could not but augur ill for our chances of traversing a wider and wilder stream.
Perhaps those who augur favorably for Northern success expect that coerced levies will fight more fiercely and endure more cheerfully than the mustered-out volunteers.
The Roman Augurs that used to laugh in each other's faces at the simplicity of the vulgar, were also tickled with their own guile; but no Augur is needed to lead the people astray.
He entered his workshop with an air of sympathy unusual to him, and which made Henry instantly augur that he brought bad news.
What made him augurthe worst was the silence both of the glover and of his daughter.
This alliance, so long despaired of, appeared to augur favourably.
Besides; I tell you frankly, I do not augurwell of what will happen.
We commend most heartily the well-meant effort, but augur for them but a very mediocre success.
On the under part is seen the panther's skin, and on it several well finished heads of satyrs, as well as several thyrsus and augur staves.
Besides, that very merriment seemed to augur a willingness to render the assistance demanded: and therefore the two laughed in concert very heartily and for upwards of a couple of minutes.
