And he had no auger!

"What did you do with the auger?"

Was that the auger?"

"I can return the compliment by saying that it isn't every lady who could throw a clumsy thing like an auger from a moving cab over a wide roadway and a stone wall and land it in a river.

Now who bought this auger?" "Martinez.

" "And you held the curtain hangings back while he used the auger?"

Take, for instance, so small a thing as the auger used at the Ansonia.

The assassin, then, was a friend of Martinezthat is, the Spaniard had considered him a friend, and, as it was of the last importance that these holes through the wall be large enough and not too large, this friend might well have seen personally to the purchase of the auger, not leaving it to a rattle-brained billiard player who, doubtless, regarded the whole affair as a joke.

This was one thread to be followed, a thread that might lead poor Bobet through weary days and nights until, among all the hardware shops in Paris, he had found the particular one where that particular auger had been sold!

"The job's done, he found the auger.

"You gave the auger to Gibelin?

"See here," he said abruptly, "what have you done with that auger?" "Put it in the department of old iron," rasped the other.

AUGER.

For example, the first time you answered 'hole' when I said 'auger,' but the second time you answered 'hammer.'

He was the first to fasten things together with glue; he invented the plumb-line and the auger; and he showed seamen how to put up masts in their ships and how to rig the sails to them with ropes.

But the instrument of any art is so adapted to that art, that for any other purpose it must seem unfit; thus with an auger we bore, and with a saw we cut wood; but we split stones with wedges, and wedges are driven with heavy mauls.

The Grossest old farmer, with his back bent double by rheumatism, contrives to bore some auger holes in an old box and fasten it on the side of the barn, or set it up on the pole of his hayrick; while the thrifty villager provides a beautiful home for his blue-backed petsa real summer hotel, mounted on a tall post above a flower-bed, with gables and little windows under the eaves.

They accordingly went to the Captain and asked him for a sharp saw, a mallet and chisel, an auger, two iron bolts, and two very long ropes.

That pill-wrangler couldn't tell the difference between an auger-hole riffle-board and a porous plaster if there wasn't a label on the box. Jeeminnetticus!' says Hadds, 'when he mixes coffin varnish for a man you'd think he was scramblin' eggs. Come on, Washy,' he says, 'while you got the price.

His bill an auger is, His head, a cap and frill.

Amos was boring holes with an auger, and the farmer was cutting the holes thus made into a square form with a chisel.

You may think different, but I'm not afraid of any man in your outfit, from the gimlet to the big auger.

George explained to that auger, who, not wishing to offend us, consented.

An auger had been added to the meager outfit, and long after the sea had leaked through the hole bored through her bottom, and swallowed her, and the insurance had been paid, the truth leaked out that the captain had received instructions, which had been fulfilled.

This hole to be made sloping upwards with a large auger, and that under a large arm near the ground.

<Foretell, predict, prophesy, forecast, presage, forebode, portend, augur, prognosticate.

Augur means foretelling from omens.

They augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.

Then came an old woman of evil augur and she threw dissension among us, and the Helals left for a distant land.

It was also the business of the augur to interpret dreams, oracles, and prodigies.

Thou wert born when the conjunction of the planets did augur a life of perfect beatitude.

[p] Ingenium velox, audacia perdita, sermo Promptus [q] Augur, schoenobates, medicus, magus: omnia novit.

But this conscientious augur acts in reference to the auspices without his colleagues.

When therefore he, as augur, says that he carried a law while Jupiter was not only thundering, but almost uttering an express prohibition of it by his clamour from heaven, will he hesitate to confess that it was carried in violation of the auspices?

What? does the virtuous augur think that it has nothing to do with the auspices, that he carried the law with the aid of that colleague whose election he himself vitiated by giving notice of the auspices? IV.

I, O conscript fathers, recollect that Quintus Scaevola the augur, in the Marsic war, when he was a man of extreme old age, and quite broken down in constitution, every day, as soon as it was daylight, used to give every one an opportunity of consulting him, nor, throughout all that war, did any one ever see him in bed, and, though old and weak, he was the first man to come into the senate house.

Under what auspices could I, an augur, take those fasces?

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POLIAKOFF, V. The tragic bride, the story of the Empress Alexandra of Russia, by V. Poliakoff (Augur) © 2Nov27; A1004990.

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He recommended to me Augur's wish, "Neither to desire poverty nor riches:" that a middle state of life was the most happy, and that the high towering thoughts of raising our condition by wandering abroad, were surrounded with misery and danger, and often ended with confusion and disappointment.

(For the Mirror.) Augur only happy days, Gipsey, when thy glancing eye, Fain would dart its piercing rays, Through her future destiny.

Yet abundant self-confidence is mine, and I augur that in the great work for which I would fain believe the ages are waiting, will be made clear my award to be the high priest of Nature.

But to those who visit Chicago, and still more to those who come to make it their home, it may be not without interest to look back to its first beginnings; to contemplate the almost magical change which a few years have wrought; and from the past to augur the marvellous prosperity of the future.

And hence, Cicero, who was an augur, speaking of Hortensius, says, "it was he who installed me as a member of the college of augurs, so that I was bound by the constitution of the order to respect and honour him as a parent."

It did not augur evil for Jimmy Sears that the lot fell to him to go forth and forage a chicken, for the great corn feast of the Black Feet, a savage tribe of four warriors, among whom Jimmy was known as the "Bald Eagle."

Where shall I find language to paint in appropriate colours the horror of mind brought on by thoughts of their future unknown destination, of which they can augur nothing but misery from all that they have yet seen?

However, the present school character of Master Sedley, as well as her own observations, by no means inclined Mrs. Woodford towards the boy, large limbed and comely faced, but with a bullying, scowling air that did not augur well for his wife or his parish.