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"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.

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The poet was riding out one day with a few attendantssome say walking out in a fit of absence of mindwhen he found himself in the midst of a band of outlaws, who, in a suspicious manner, barely suffered him to pass.

Thus, we say of a suspicious man, that he is suspicion itself; Ariosto turns him accordingly into an actual being of that name.

" The whole description of Orlando's jealousy and growing madness is Shakspearian for passion and circumstance, as the reader may see even in the prose abstract of it in this volume; and his sublimation of a suspicious king into suspicion itself (which it also contains) is as grandly and felicitously audacious as any thing ever invented by poet.

That is certainly suspicious.

Francis remained her lover till his death, which was both dramatic and suspicious, husband and wife dying within a few hours of each other at the Medici villa of Poggia a Caiano in 1587.

These inept excise laws, hampered with a hundred suspicious forms, frightened away the whole carrying trade from the port; and its commission merchants were frequently unable to dispose of the local produce.

They that live in fear are never free, resolute, secure, never merry, but in continual pain: that, as Vives truly said, Nulla est miseria major quam metus, no greater misery, no rack, nor torture like unto it, ever suspicious, anxious, solicitous, they are childishly drooping without reason, without judgment, "especially if some terrible object be offered," as Plutarch hath it.

For commonly they that, like Sisyphus, roll this restless stone of ambition, are in a perpetual agony, still perplexed, semper taciti, tritesque recedunt (Lucretius), doubtful, timorous, suspicious, loath to offend in word or deed, still cogging and colloguing, embracing, capping, cringing, applauding, flattering, fleering, visiting, waiting at men's doors, with all affability, counterfeit honesty and humility.

Many men are undone by this means, moped, and so dejected, that they are never to be recovered; and of all other men living, those which are actually melancholy, or inclined to it, are most sensible, (as being suspicious, choleric, apt to mistake) and impatient of an injury in that kind: they aggravate, and so meditate continually of it, that it is a perpetual corrosive, not to be removed, till time wear it out.

" "If they be in adversity, they are more suspicious and apt to mistake: they think themselves scorned by reason of their misery:" and therefore many generous spirits in such cases withdraw themselves from all company, as that comedian

When deer are being driven, they are intensely suspicious, and of course frightened.

When you see a deer has become suspicious, and no cover is near, stand perfectly erect and rigid, and do not leave your legs apart.

They steal on with extreme caution, being intensely wary and suspicious.

You must rouse their minds to think, and let them fairly grasp the purport of your inquiry, for they are very suspicious, often pondering over your object, carefully considering all the pros and cons as to your motive, inclination, or your position.

The people are jealous of intrusion and suspicious of strangers, but as I was with an official, they generally came out in great numbers to gaze as we passed through a village.

The largest tigers being also the most suspicious and wary, are only found in the remotest recesses of the impenetrable jungles of Nepaul and the Terai, or in those parts of the Indian wilds where the crack of the European rifle is seldom or never heard.

Old tigers are invariably more wary, cautious, and suspicious than young ones, and till they are fairly put to it by hunger, hurt, or compulsion, they endeavour to keep their stripes concealed.

Some elephants are very timid, and indeed all elephants are mistrustful and suspicious of anything behind them.

" "Then I'll trade you news," said Terry Jordan, lowering his voice so that it would not reach the suspicious ear of Jim Silent.

He was also suspicious of Mannus, especially because the latter had sent an auxiliary force to Mebarsapes, king of Adiabene, and then had lost it all at the hands of the Romans.

The natives looked sullen and rather suspicious, or is it only that I imagine it because they are so unlike the broad-smiling Santals with their cheerful johar?

Through the gardens we go to see the bananas and pine-apples and tomatoes ripening in the sun, and make sure that the malis are doing their work; then on to the wash-house, where the dhobi is finishing the weekly wash; to the kitchens, to see that the cooking-pots are clean; finally, to stand on the verandah while the syces bring the ponies and feed them before our suspicious eyes.

We had scarcely proceeded four or five miles from the khan when we perceived a very suspicious noise.

A man once came to him, of whom he said he was suspicious: he gave him two potions of salts, and fastened him in the stocks for the night.

Kind and friendly neighbours kept a vigilant eye upon her proceedings, but her character was unimpeachable; and they all agreed that she was a very suspicious person, because they could not slander her.

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