Which preposition to use with auspex
If I needed any justification for addresses, which I was graciously invited to deliver under the auspices of the University of London, an honour which I also gratefully acknowledge, it would lie in the fact that we are to consider one of the supremely great achievements of the English-speaking race.
VILLARI The month of November, 1494, began under sinister auspices in Florence.
Infants are educated under the Lord's auspices by such women, and grow in stature and intelligence as in the world.
There have been some who supposed that by this same Horatian law provision was made for the consuls also and the prætors, because they were elected under the same auspices as the consuls; for a consul was called a judge.
Accustomed to arms, he rejoiced that a career in which he had partially failedthis he did not conceal from himself or his wifethat this same career had opened, as he trusted, with better auspices on his only son.
I have made an acquisition latterly of a pleasant hand, one Rickman, to whom I was introduced by George Dyer,not the most flattering auspices under which one man can be introduced to another.
The struggle can never come with less distress to the people or under more favorable auspices than at the present moment.
The Ministers set up under these auspices for over two years acted in defiance of public opinion.
This kind of vow proved acceptable to the gods, and they conducted the auspices to a fortunate issue.
But this conscientious augur acts in reference to the auspices without his colleagues.
I thought a marriage from here would not doit would entail publicity and remark; that none of us would care forbesides, there could hardly be a marriage under your auspices during the absence of the duke.
Here land and water meet under very different auspices from those of the rock-bound coast to which I have been accustomed.
Even in the first Punic war (505) an instance occurred in which the consul himself made an open jest of consulting the auspices before battlea consul, it is true, belonging to the peculiar clan of the Claudii, which alike in good and evil was ahead of its age.
I am gratified to be enabled to announce to you that since the close of your last session these relations have been opened under the happiest auspices with Austria and the Two Sicilies, that new nominations have been made in the respective missions of Russia, Brazil, Belgium, and Sweden and Norway in this country, and that a minister extraordinary has been received, accredited to this Government, from the Argentine Confederation.