| They knew not that it was an augury of the fateful tragedy at the gates of Spain. |
| A brace of dead geese, embodying the classical Roman method of augury, act as an image of mortality. |
| I was always superstitious, and this augury, just at that moment, affected me. |
| In a general sense it is an unfortunate omen which is sometimes taken as an augury of death. |
| Amid the carnage and death, that unity is one augury of hope. |
| If the augury was propitious the work was entered upon with vigor and confidence. |
