"Be it known, gentlemen, and you, fair ladies," he cried, "that to-day is a more auspicious occasion than any Royal festival or Christian holy day.

These auguries are all auspicious ones.

Urged by frantic terror, and the example and exhortations of his companion, he battered, banged, and vociferated, until on the very verge of exhaustion; when, as if by enchantment, the tempest ceased, the spectres disappeared, and joyous shouts and a burst of music announced the occurrence of something auspicious in the adjoining city.

He therefore offered a number of sacrifices, and, as the diviners found no auspicious tokens in any of them, he sent Antony to dismiss the senate.

What inference are we to draw from this?That administration, as auspicious as it was transitory, has never been charged with more than one error.

auspicious, propitious, providential.

probable, on the high road to; within sight of shore, within sight of land; promising, propitious; of promise, full of promise; of good omen; auspicious, de bon augure

Come, happie friend, The most auspicious messenger to me That ever greeted me in Pesants weeds.

The stoppage thus occasioned enabled the pursuers to gain ground, and, just after the leopard had emerged from the river, and was shaking its skin free from the watery drops, one of the party seized the auspicious moment, and fired.

There, in that auspicious place, where you laid the first beginnings of your liberty, you shall elect tribunes of the people.

This came at about three o'clock on the morning of September 14an auspicious day, it being the third anniversary of the Battle of the Alma.

Antonio, he called himafter the kindly patron saint of that auspicious daywhen he personally handed the child to the Archbishop at the font.

The deliverance of the Southern American Republics from the oppression under which they had been so long afflicted was hailed with great unanimity by the people of this Union as among the most auspicious events of the age.

" General assent had proclaimed a suspension of commerce on this auspicious day, and I found Jones sitting idle and ill at ease.

Signed and sealed on the fourth day of the eighty-ninth moon of your majesty's auspicious reign.

Then melt, ye fair, while crowds around you sigh, Nor let disdain sit lowering in your eye; With pity soften every awful grace, And beauty smile auspicious in each face To ease their pain exert your milder power; So shall you guiltless reign, and all mankind adore.

From that auspicious year the very existence of the natives of London improved; their bodies moved in a large space of pure air; and, finding every thing clean and new around them, they determined to keep them so.

Surely, after consulting together, we must select some delightful, auspicious, and agreeable region for our abode, where we may live free from fear.

And, O monarch, I am well-acquainted with the nature of kine, as also with their auspicious marks and other matters relating to them.

I can also discriminate bulls with auspicious marks, the scent of whose urine may make even the barren being forth child.

And like a Kashmerean mare you are furnished with every auspicious mark.

Of these goddesses who art renowned in the celestial regions, who art thou, O graceful one?' "Draupadi replied, 'O auspicious lady, I am neither a goddess nor a Gandharvi, nor a Yakshi, nor a Rakshasi.

I can also single out bulls having auspicious marks for which they are worshipped by men, and by smelling whose urine, the barren may conceive.

Why it is, O auspicious lady, that having it in thy power to enjoy here every object of desire and every luxury and comfort without its equal, thou preferest servitude.

Surely, the night that is gone hath brought me an auspicious day, for I have got thee today as the mistress of my house.