auspices

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In this office, which he held for life, he busied himself with a Digest of the Auspices and wrote an essay on Divination.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 by Warner, Charles Dudley

Under the Auspices of the Superintendent of Common      Schools.

From Famous Americans of Recent Times by Parton, James

Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa: being a Journal of an Expedition undertaken under the Auspices of H.B.M.'s Government, in the Years 1849–1855.

From Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61 by Doubleday, Abner

His works on divination, particularly that on Auspices, excel everything previously written on that most important of all human arts.

From Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire by White, Edward Lucas

How was the right of taking the Auspices abused?

From Pinnock's improved edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome to which is prefixed an introduction to the study of Roman history, and a great variety of valuable information added throughout the work, on the manners, institutions, and antiquities of the Romans; with numerous biographical and historical notes; and questions for examination at the end of each section. By Wm. C. Taylor. by Pinnock, William