Example Sentences
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There was a book on the Auspices, which, coming from the head of the Roman religion, would have thrown a light much to be desired on this curious subject.
From Caesar: a Sketch by Froude, James Anthony
I must have the History of all previous Bond Issues under the same Auspices.
From Knocking the Neighbors by Ade, George
Under the Auspices of the Superintendent of Common Schools.
From Famous Americans of Recent Times by Parton, James
We left Inverness the last Day of April, and encamp'd near a little Town call'd Forrest, the Place where, as Tradition still confidently avers, the Witches met Mackbeth, and greeted him with their diabolical Auspices.
From Military Memoirs of Capt. George Carleton by Defoe, Daniel
In this office, which he held for life, he busied himself with a Digest of the Auspices and wrote an essay on Divination.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 by Warner, Charles Dudley
