These unfortunate sacrificial beasts were then slaughtered and their entrails examine -- not for auguries of the future but for their microbial populations.
He knew the originals of these lumbering phrases; he also had sent " sincere auguries" ; he also had addressed letters—who writes at home? —from the Caffe Garibaldi.
'Well, ' said the undertaker's wife, when Oliver had finished his supper: which she had regarded in silent horror, and with fearful auguries of his future appetite: 'have you done?
Their most important practices were the use of augury, which was reading omens from birds and lightning strikes, and haruspicy, which was examining entrails of sacrificed animals, especially the liver, to divine future events.