And now the old ships and their men are gone; the new ships and the new men, many of them bearing the old,auspicious names, have taken up their watch on the stern and impartial sea, which offers no opportunities but to those who know how to grasp them with a ready hand and an undaunted heart.

When she told Marianne what she had done, however, her first reply was not veryauspicious.

On the other hand, it seemed to Van Baerle anauspicious omen that this very cell was assigned to him, for according to his ideas, a jailer ought never to have given to a second pigeon the cage from which the first had so easily flown.

'At least pay the boy, then: I have no pice with me, and he broughtauspicious news.

Mr Venus, if on thisauspicious occasion, you should happen to have a drop of anything not quite so mild as tea in the 'ouse, I think I'd take the friendly liberty of asking you for a specimen of it.'

Hester could not but ask herself whether there had not originally been a defect of truth, courage, and loyalty on her own part, in allowing the minister to be thrown into position where so much evil was to be foreboded and nothingauspicious to be hoped.

Jaggers would be glad if I would call upon him at five in the afternoon of theauspicious day.

Everything lookedauspicious for their spring campaign.

There was an improving party assembled on theauspicious occasion, who knew what everything they had to eat and drink was made of, and how it was imported or exported, and in what quantities, and in what bottoms, whether native or foreign, and all about it.

I trust, Mr Garland, my dear Sir, that we may mutually congratulate each other upon thisauspicious occasion.'

Signed and sealed on the fourth day of the eighty-ninth moon of your majesty'sauspicious reign.

He paused and considered the matter, while Jerry returned to digging the sand where the scent wasauspicious. Agno made to stop him, but Bashti interposed.