From this, I augured that there was no imminent danger to be apprehended, and I stepped out more quickly in his wake.

I augured great things from the first number.

Being taken over Waterloo Bridge, he remarked that if we had no mountains, we had a fine river, at least,which was a touch of the comparative; but then he added in a strain which augured less for his future abilities as a political economist, that he supposed they must take at least a pound a week toll.

But many had been hurt, and that fact augured well for Olsen's force.

Gelsomina knew by the sound that they were in one of the smaller canals, and she augured well of the boatman's knowledge of the town.

And Tregarva pulled off his neckcloth, and shook his huge limbs, as if to feel that they were all in their places, in a way that augured ill for the man who came across him.

A friend who had watched with regret his unsuccessful attempts on former journeys to enter that jealous country, and who augured from the political changes which had taken place that permission might probably now be obtained, brought the subject again under his notice.

And the continuance of this feeling is visible in her first letter to her mother, some passages of which show a sobriety of mind under such a change of circumstances, which, almost as much as the benevolence which the letter also displays, augured well for the happiness of the people over whom she was to reign, so far at least as that happiness depended on the virtues of the sovereign.

To complete his happiness, he had a friend and cousin, Pandolfo Ariosto, who loved every thing that he loved, and for whom he augured a brilliant reputation.

The Jews, that "stiff-necked nation," unimpressed by Mahomet's triumph, careful only of its probable effect on their own position, which effect they could not but regard as disastrous, seeing that it augured their own submission to a superior power, murmured against his success, and tried their utmost to sow dissension by the publication of contemptuous songs through the mouths of their poets and prophetesses.

He told Fannia that, as he was coming to her house, an ass had come out to drink at a neighbouring fountain, and, fixing its eyes steadily on him, had brayed aloud and frisked vivaciously, whence he augured that he would find safety by sea.

The eyes of the whole assembly were directed towards him, and by acclamations and expressions of approbation, a prosperous and happy command were at once augured to him.

Exactly what it all meant he knew not, but it augured danger.

They augured, from the unusual sternness and silence with which they bore their disappointment, that the populace nourished some scheme of sudden and desperate vengeance; and they advised Porteous to lose no time in petitioning the proper authorities, that he might be conveyed to the Castle under a sufficient guard, to remain there in security until his ultimate fate should be determined.

Formerly, i.e., when Becket was in his sallad days, he augured, he says, that the true reading was "the scores of whip-hand time.

They augured ill for the harmony of our married life.

Signal services to the country were augured, even by his opponents, from one of such extraordinary abilities and manifest integrity of purpose.

This augured well.

Alarmed by this new cabal, and made aware that the latter had betrayed symptoms of irresolution which augured ill for his adhesion to her cause, she lost no time in reminding him of the pledges which he had given, and in entreating him not to abandon her interests.

Lord Arleigh was too happy even to notice it, but Lady Peters grew pale at the occurrence; for, according to her old-fashioned ideas, it augured ill.

I hoped that it augured well for us, but while I hoped I had a gloomy foreboding.

I certainly did not begin on an empty stomach what augured to be a hard day.

If they burned quietly together, the pair would be man and wife, and from the length of time they burned and the brightness of the flame the length and happiness of the married life of the two were augured.

Yet plantation fanaticism did not prevent the great act from which we augured English hatred of a slaveholders' rebellion.

All augured well for a speedy and successful completion of the task in a manner as perfect as had been anticipated.