An event that is experienced as indicating important things to come.
A sign that is supposed to reveal whether the future will be favourable or not.
1 Such gayety; such jokes; such bravado; and augury of the to be!
2 The whole scene was of evil augury for the defence of Paris.
3 This was not a happy augury for the head of the family.
4 Romulus had raised the first body with the customary ceremony of augury .
5 They defy critical augury , in their unending quest of beauty and truth.
6 Parsifal had called yesterday, and she had cut short his roadside augury .
7 Some strange birds flew up and made the augury of no effect.
8 Good augury should this festival be of the happiness of future years.
9 Somehow he felt that it would be of happy augury for himself.
10 Hurricane Katrina was an augury of the end for George W Bush.
11 You must not speak lightly of the science of augury , Lady Mary.
12 Even with his novitiate's eye, he had no trouble reading the augury .
13 Answer seemed to gratify her, which you may consider a disagreeable augury .
14 His gloomy, self absorbed silence seemed a bad augury for her plans.
15 He looked wonderful, surely an augury of the future image of the airline?
16 Now science may have found an answer, in the form of molecular augury .
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