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You haven't ever had it that much better and any change that works for customers longer-term augur well for everybody. From Wordnik.com. [Moneycontrol Top Headlines] Reference
My point is "augur" is the operative word in that analysis. From Wordnik.com. [Election Central Sunday Roundup] Reference
He is really the religious head of the community, a kind of augur and prophet, who consults the gods and communicates to the people the answers he claims to have received. From Wordnik.com. [John L. Stoddard's Lectures, Vol. 10 (of 10) Southern California; Grand Canon of the Colorado River; Yellowstone National Park] Reference
The opening of the Iter did not augur well for the city. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume I] Reference
Memoir of his life, he had every reason to augur success. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.] Reference
Altius Naevius, and tell me the meaning of the word augur. From Wordnik.com. [Domestic Pleasures, or, the Happy Fire-side] Reference
An augur presents the future by looking at signs and omens. From Wordnik.com. [a random thought] Reference
That also doesn't augur well for Mugabe's political longevity. From Wordnik.com. [Africa's Silence On Mugabe] Reference
The ceremony required the presence of an augur and a pontifex to hold it. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order] Reference
Bruce drilled a hole through the ice with the hand augur they had always used. From Wordnik.com. [Two Months Before, Two Months After] Reference
While the volume of deals is rising, it might not augur a return to exuberance. From Wordnik.com. [Let’s Make A Deal] Reference
At these words the people burst out a laughing, but the augur did not appear at all moved. From Wordnik.com. [Domestic Pleasures, or, the Happy Fire-side] Reference
Perhaps the day will bring better counsel; but the night's conversation does not augur it. From Wordnik.com. [The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
Such continued harassment of political activists does not augur well for the upcoming vote. From Wordnik.com. [Ultimatum Delivered] Reference
= Accius Nævius: = the augur who cut a whetstone in pieces in presence of Tarquinius Priscus. From Wordnik.com. [Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois] Reference
And the amount of movement did not augur well for their doing much better in their second innings. From Wordnik.com. [Why Pakistan's poor slip catching is itself catching] Reference
True, it is the higher aim of the two, and I will not pretend to augur any very brilliant success. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference
The people then gave a loud shout, and the king's contempt for the augur was turned into admiration. From Wordnik.com. [Domestic Pleasures, or, the Happy Fire-side] Reference
Gyas Ufens: Tolumnius the augur himself goes down, he who had hurled the first weapon against the foe. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
He also held the office of augur, in which, A.D. 103 or 104, he was succeeded by the younger Pliny; Plin. From Wordnik.com. [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference
The name seemed to augur well, and my adviser seemed so serious that I determined to make my way to Paradise. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2)] Reference
From every circumstance that now appears, we augur the success of the work, and a brimming subscription for it. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810] Reference
Did the new moon, which I saw so squarely over my left shoulder when riding him over Waldron's ridge, augur this?. From Wordnik.com. [The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer] Reference
Other times they drilled the holes down in Sandy Meadow, where the augur slipped in smoothly, quickly, and easily. From Wordnik.com. [Stories from the Old Attic] Reference
I shall have you put into one of these, in which I shall make augur-holes, so that you can have plenty of fresh air. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference
The first question is whether his presidency would augur any significant change in policy with a meaningful impact abroad. From Wordnik.com. [A ‘Cinnamon-Skinned’ President] Reference
President's condition on inauguration day and of his unfortunate speech on February 22 did not augur well for its success. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
I likewise reflected, with Concern, that the dignity of our College must suffer greatly by the decease of such an eminent augur. From Wordnik.com. [Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker.] Reference
There is a curious account of Attius Nævius, a famous augur, (this signifies a kind of prophet, who could foretel future events.). From Wordnik.com. [Domestic Pleasures, or, the Happy Fire-side] Reference
Akin to this faith is the belief that people have seen coffins or spectral beings enter houses, both of which augur a coming death. From Wordnik.com. [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference
A set expression settled on the girl's face that did not augur well for her reception of whatever plan the lawyer might have to propose. From Wordnik.com. [The Governess] Reference
Meanwhile, as Klaus Schwab prepares for the Davos meetings, another important development is taking shape that could augur well for North-South relations. From Wordnik.com. [Davos: Show Us The Jobs!] Reference
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