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Example sentences for "haruspex"

Lexicographically close words:
harts; hartshorn; harty; haruest; harum; haruspices; harvest; harvested; harvester; harvesters
  1. The haruspex ordered that the "ill-used man" should be set at liberty.

  2. The haruspex bowed, but without giving her his blessing, and when he met Pentaur on the second terrace, ordered that the temple should be cleared of worshippers.

  3. Even so warm an admirer of ancestral institutions as Cato the Elder had long before warned his paterfamilias to forbid his villicus, or farm-steward, to consult any haruspex or augur.

  4. Mena's star, the haruspex told me, stands under the sign of happiness, and I enquired of the oracle in the temple of Besa, and heard that my husband is prospering.

  5. During this speech the haruspex had frequently shrugged his shoulders.

  6. Ameni enquired of them as to the preparations for the festival of the morrow, and then desired the chief haruspex to call the refractory pupils together in the school-court.

  7. But fuller and purer in those of the Regent the haruspex ventured to retort.

  8. The haruspex submitted, though deeply vexed, and asked whether the guilty boys were also to go unpunished.

  9. The vision which had tormented him stood vividly before his mind, and he endeavored to retain it that he might summon a haruspex to interpret it.

  10. All noses," said the dwarf, "they teach the knowing better than any haruspex what is inside a man.

  11. The haruspex threw up his arms in lamentation.

  12. The edict of the sun's day was issued March 7; that for consulting the haruspex was issued the day following, March 8.


  13. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "haruspex" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    astrologer; augur; diviner; prophet; psychic; seer; soothsayer