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But if you wish to make sure whether it is a good auspice or a bad, you kill the spider and count its legs. If they are an even number, it is a good omen; if uneven, bad." "But I believe spiders always have an even number of legs," said Caesar. "Certainly," responded the old man; "but my wife swears they do not; that she has seen many with seven and nine legs. It is religious unreasonableness."
"I will put you to the proof, at once," said the king, opening a book which lay upon the table. "Look! These are the Odes of Rousseau, and we will take the first one which accident presents Listen to this:" "'Sous un plus heureux auspice, La Deesse des amours, Veut qu'un nouveau sacrifice, Lui consacre vos beaux jours; Deja le bucher s'allume.
Never was a girl so untouched by thought, or Art yet not stupid, having, seemingly, a certain natural good taste; only, nothing, evidently, had come her way. How could it 'Johnny Dromore duce, et auspice Johnny Dromore! She had been taken, indeed, to the National Gallery while at school.
The October sun, that mantled them with warmth and glory; the Indian summer, that transfigured earth about them; all tints all redolence all broad beatitude of globe and sky were none too much to breathe out and make palpable the glad and holy auspice of the hour. Mr. Gartney had gradually relinquished his half-formed thought of San Francisco.
However, the person who officiates in taking the auspices, if he makes a false report, draws on his own head the evil portended; but to the Roman people and their army, the favourable omen reported to me is an excellent auspice." He then commanded the centurions to place the keepers of the chickens in the front of the line.
"'In after-life, when the judgment corrects the extravagance of early impressions, I saw him on several occasions, but saw nothing to admonish me of any extravagance in my early impressions. "Credo equidem, nee vana fides, genus esse Deorum." ""Nil desperandum, Teucro duce, et auspice Teucro."
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