Sentence examples for auspicious omens from inspiring English sources

And then the play proper, itself full of auspicious omens.

Temples were erected in his honour, auspicious omens were ascribed to his influence, and in one memorial he was even likened to Confucius.

As he spoke, an eagle appeared overhead in an auspicious omen.

I decided to take this as an auspicious omen for what still felt like an unknown trip.

Rumors that his face had been spotted on the moon sent Jordanians into the streets to witness this auspicious omen.

Even more unfortunately, www.womenswork.com, "The Progressive Site for Progressive Women," has been dormant for nearly two years -- hardly an auspicious omen.

Although there is no evidence to back up its claim, the company contends that the site is where Genghis Khan found the whip, traditionally considered an auspicious omen, that inspired his future conquests.

On 16 May 1703, while looking over sparse marshlands near the mouth of the Baltic Sea that he had taken from the Swedes, Tsar Peter the Great cut two strips of turf from Hare's Island on the Neva river, laid them in a cross and declared: "Let there be a city here". As he spoke, an eagle appeared overhead in an auspicious omen.

Not a man of them stood his ground, but some were done to death at once in the route, and others as they fled, nor was it a happy and auspicious omen that Galba should enter the city through so much slaughter and so many dead bodies.

WHEN Paul Martin took over as Canada's prime minister, barely two years ago, the omens were auspicious enough.

Here too the omens seemed auspicious at the start of his reign.