Fear and resentment made the princes forget the customs of civilisation, and the messengers were put to death, an inauspicious opening for the coming struggle.
This unusually backward condition of society furnished but an inauspicious presage for the future.
It was at best a dangerous and inauspicious concession, demanding every compensation that could be devised, and which the circumstances of the war entitled us to require.
Sundays, which are auspicious for weddings, are inauspicious for crimes.
His death deprives her of the right to wear the tali, and makes her an Amangali (an inauspicious person) for all socio-religious purposes.
In a short time the day became overcast, the wind rose, and brought with it the inauspicious mutterings of a thunder-storm.
Brihaspati told Indra the time was inauspicious and the Devas could not succeed without the help of Vishnu.
She took them, and had the imprudent curiosity to go and visit the mysterious and inauspicious treasure, to which she was forbidden all access.
But theinauspicious commencement of the Seven Years' War brought on a crisis to which Newcastle was altogether unequal.
If any thing could add to the gloom and sicken the mind under the prospect before us, it is the inauspicious conjunction of events.
He said the time was very inauspicious for commencing an undertaking of such magnitude as the building a navy, which could be of no use in the approaching contest.
For I had an instinctive idea we should similarly confront one another again, and that under inauspicious circumstances.
But the whole episode seemed to put them into high good humour, from which I had begun to augur great things, when an interruption occurred which was inauspicious in the extreme.
After this settlement was made, with so many inauspicious circumstances, Edward visibly declined every day, and small hopes were entertained of his recovery.
A council was summoned at Pisa, which from the beginning bore a very inauspicious aspect, and promised little success to had adherents.
Ploughing is never commenced in Pushya, as it is considered an inauspicious month, but what was begun in the previous Margasira could be continued through it.
This is regarded here and elsewhere as a very inauspicious and dangerous office, and the headman of the village has to offer considerable inducements to persuade a Madiga to undertake it.
As a matter of fact, this planet is considered to be a star of ill omen, and Tuesday is regarded as an inauspicious day.
The removal to Paris was an inauspicious change for the poet, and that he remained there until his end was still less calculated to redound to his good fortune.
I to meet thee on New Year's Day in the morning, An omen 'twere of an inauspicious year.
Apollo himself unjust, then spoke unjust things, when at the tripod of Themis he commanded the unhallowed, inauspicious murder of my mother.
But his administration had not been barren of measures, nor inauspicious to the harmony of the Union.
Have you despatched the messenger who will solve the inauspicious misunderstanding?
During my sickness my brother had shown me the most self-sacrificing love, and had attached himself again to me with the greatest tenderness, as though to make me forget the inauspicious reproach that had pained me so much.
Eleanor was thrown from her saddle; and, but for one of those inauspicious events which so frequently occur to mar our well-being, would have come off more lightly than her companion.
And, with a most inauspicious and menacing look, the mountaineer laid his hand on his dagger.
He does not deny remedies, but I doubted for the child because of the inauspicious colour of the bottles.
Luther, according to the scandal of his monkish enemies, was a brat of that hellish breed; nor was Pearl the only child to whom this inauspicious origin was assigned among the New England Puritans.
Finding it so directly on the threshold of our narrative, which is now about to issue from that inauspicious portal, we could hardly do otherwise than pluck one of its flowers, and present it to the reader.
And pouring in a great quantity of water and filling the whole earth, they quench that terrible inauspicious fire (of which I have already spoken to thee).
And at that time the princess of Videha, that girl of beautiful hips, had her deep and compact bosom copiously drenched by her inauspicious tears shed ceaselessly.
Terrified by the blaze of the points of the horizon, jackals stationing themselves on the right of that hermitage, set up frightful and inauspicious yells.
And that fire called Samvartaka aided by that inauspicious wind, consumeth this world extending for hundreds and thousands of yojanas.
And neither hunger, nor thirst, nor lassitude, nor fear, nor anything that is disgusting or inauspicious is there.
Formerly, as soon as thy son was born, I told thee,--Forsake thou thisinauspicious child of thine.
Miltitz saw Tetzel and silenced him; and the inauspicious preacher did not long survive his disgrace.
This was the beginning of that alliance between the rural aristocracy of Catholic France and the furious democracy of the capital which laid the inauspicious foundation of the League.
This may take only a few days, if no inauspicious omens occur, but, according to my observation, it is seldom that some omen or other does not interfere with the work.
On this occasion above all others it is essential that the omens be favorable, as there are no means, so I have been informed, to counteract an inauspicious marriage omen.
This combination is not inauspicious in so far as it does not augur evil, but it is thought to be a sure indication of a failure to kill.
In one instance that passed under my personal observation the departure of the warriors was postponed for several days by reason of inauspicious omens.
I should certainly consider any earlier day of your retirement as the most inauspicious day our new government has ever seen.
He admitted that the time was inauspicious for putting an end to the establishment, but the danger from British influence was greater than the danger from financial confusion.
