augury

And yet the riddle was not to be solved By guess-work but required the prophet's art; Wherein thou wast found lacking; neither birds Nor sign from heaven helped thee, but I came, The simple Oedipus; I stopped her mouth By mother wit, untaught of auguries. This is the man whom thou wouldst undermine, In hope to reign with Creon in my stead.

The chiefs prepared their medicines or charms each according to his own method, or fancied inspiration, generally with the compound of certain simples; others consulted the entrails of animals which they had sacrificed, and thence drew favorable auguries. After much grave smoking and deliberating it was at length proclaimed that all who were able to lift a club, man, woman, or child, should muster for "the surround." When all had congregated, they moved in rude procession to the nearest point of the valley in question, and there halted.

'Well,' said the undertaker's wife, when Oliver had finished his supper: which she had regarded in silent horror, and with fearful auguries of his future appetite: 'have you done?'

But we have no fair ground for entertaining unfavourable auguries concerning Arthur Donnithorne, who this morning proves himself capable of a prudent resolution founded on conscience.

If the auguries of the prophesying heart shall make themselves good in time, the man who shall be born, whose advent men and events prepare and foreshow, is one who shall enjoy his connection with a higher life, with the man within man; shall destroy distrust by his trust, shall use his native but forgotten methods, shall not take counsel of flesh and blood, but shall rely on the Law alive and beautiful which works over our heads and under our feet.

Our auguries gazing into the future are warning that the proscription would drive the martyrdom-seeking Shiites underground to continue their agitation for the release of their leaders in the shadows.

The CEPEX believes that these are "good auguries to convert the potential of the UK market into an effective business".

When the BJP and PDP formed their unlikely alliance in early 2015, the auguries were not good.

But Dahal has also begun issuing thinly veiled auguries. Just the other day, he said that he could embark on an entirely new course if he concluded that the current route was unlikely to take him to his destination.

But they've also been scrutinized as auguries bearing messages--often conflicting ones--about change.

Violet has magic powers--she is able to manipulate the Three Auguries: color, shape, and growth.

With Labour in disarray, the Lib Dems almost annihilated and Plaid lacking the authority of its Scottish cousins, the auguries for the future of the BBC and S4C are not good.