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King George's visit to India in 1911 evoked a wave of loyal enthusiasm which swept the peninsula and augured well for the future. The year 1911 was the high-water mark of this era of appeasement following the storms of 1905-9.
The friar fixed his keen eye upon Mesty, and perceived there was a savage look about the black, from which he augured that he was a man who would suit his purpose. "Your master offers me a thousand dollars; would you wish to gain this money for yourself?" Mesty grinned, and showed his sharp-filed teeth. "It would make me a rich man in my own country."
"I told thee," continued the Astrologer, "that the conjunction of planets under which he set forth augured danger to the person and hath not his path been beset by danger? I told thee that it augured an advantage to the sender and of that thou wilt soon have the benefit." "Soon have the benefit!" exclaimed the King. "Have I not the result already, in disgrace and imprisonment?"
A deus ex machinâ has descended amongst us abruptly, and intercepted the natural evolution of the plot: the executive Government has summarily effected the peripetteia by means of a coup d'état; and the end, such as we augured, has been brought about by means essentially different. Yet, if thus far we were found in error, would not that argue a corresponding error in the Government?
When the children had gone to bed, and Angela had stayed upstairs so long that Gertrude augured that she was waiting till her charge had gone to sleep, and that they should have no more of her henceforth but "Lena's baulked stepmother," she came down, bringing a document with her, which she displayed before her brothers.
But you can say I've done well made my pile over in Australia, and ain't comin' on THEM. Remember say I 'ain't comin' on them'!" The editor nodded, and then, as if fearful of letting his present impulse cool, ran off towards the house. It was large and respectable looking, and augured well for the present fortunes of the Wilkes's.
"But from this scene Sir Morgan was now summoned hastily away to another which, too ruefully he augured, must await him. A second lesson he was now to have upon the sanctity of human affections. For I will maintain, Mr.
Immediately after the fall of Harlem, another attempt was made by Alva to win back the allegiance of the other cities by proclamations. It had become obvious to the Governor that so determined a resistance on the part of the first place besieged augured many long campaigns before the whole province could be subdued.
This much, however, was known: Thomas retreated instantly to bed, and the visitor, in the same suit of hodden-grey, again entered, passed the bolt, took off her plaid, hung it up, and began the duties which she thought were suited to the day and the hour. So much being thus alike, the couple in the bedroom no doubt augured a repetition of the old process. They were right, and they were wrong.
The city was surrounded by signs that augured well for beginning this siege; fresh abundance of everything necessary to sustain life was vividly present; I am surprised that at that time the crusaders found abundant grapes hanging on the vines everywhere, wheat shut up not in granaries, but in ditches and underground pits.
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