Those solemn Bores, the Latin augurs, were in the habit of foretelling the triumph or downfall of the Roman Eagles by the flight of Crows, and St. PETER was once convicted of three breaches of veracity by a Crow.

In this marriage the dynastic ambition of Louis Philippe, which was one of the main causes of his subsequent downfall in 1848, became obvious.

Up to now Germany has given all she could; any further payment will cause a downfall without changing the actual monetary position.

The biographers of Lamennais trace the beginning of his downfall to his exemption from his daily Office.

Here was help for Arthur without my braving all the horrors of Carmel's downfall by any impulsive act of my own.

Is it not true that you once defended me when some young Englishman was drinking toasts to my downfall at an inn in this village in which you lived?' I remembered the incident, although I could not imagine how it had reached his ears.

The American army can give the finishing touch to the German downfall along the western front, and the sooner the Germans realize that they cannot win from the rapidly growing number of their enemies, the sooner will come the the end of this greatest tragedy in the civilized world.

Complaints of great abuses were loud and long,[190] and when the ecclesiastical courts were abolished by the Long Parliament in 1641, the satirical literature of the day celebrated their downfall with a verve, a gusto, and an exultation amazing to one not familiar with the procedure of these courts.

[Illustration: MARGARET'S DOWNFALL From the Painting by Wilhelm von Kaulbach] WALPURGIS-NIGHT THE HARTZ MOUNTAINS.