Sentence Examples:
Friday, for instance, is considered an inauspicious day for the commencement of any undertaking.
Not one of the unfortunate writers and reporters could please him on that inauspicious day.
He had heard of his precious doings, and reports of his inauspicious marriage were already abroad.
Such was the inauspicious commencement of the assumption of responsibility by the crown in China.
The campaign in the east therefore, opened in the most inauspicious circumstances for the Mailed Fist.
In spite of this inauspicious beginning, I soon found points in common with my chance companion.
The rumor went that these were inauspicious for the Emperor, and they were immediately returned.
Otherwise, we must again take the tented field, as we did in 1776 under more inauspicious circumstances.
One should never utter such words as trouble other people or as are inauspicious or are as sinful.
How inauspicious to be obliged to appear before royalty in unsuitable attire, which might be attributed to disrespect!
And, with a most inauspicious and menacing look, the mountaineer laid his hand on his dagger.
On ordinary occasions, brothers should not be shaved on the same day, as this would be inauspicious.
Of course, the time of an eclipse is most inauspicious for the commencement of any important business.
The Danes, not willing to hazard a landing in such inauspicious circumstances, sailed to a greater distance.
After this second inauspicious start, long open approach cuts were made and the work finally began.
It is believed that a third marriage is very inauspicious, and that the bride will become a widow.
That inauspicious commencement of a wandering life had perhaps been amongst the least of his early trials.
How futile then must be every undertaking to reclaim men of this description under circumstances so inauspicious!
The early morning was somewhat inauspicious; but as the day advanced, it grew bright and cheerful.
Even this journey, which seemed so inauspicious, might, he thought, be but the beginning of a happy end.
The time may have been inauspicious; the occasion may have been one that will not look well in history.
To have commenced the battle at so inauspicious a moment would have been little worthy of a great captain.
The rising tumult of the insurrection reached the ears of the deputies; each minute some inauspicious news arrived.
For I had an instinctive idea we should similarly confront one another again, and that under inauspicious circumstances.
She nodded in the same inauspicious way, pointed to a seat, and shut the door before she spoke.
The time, he observed, was most inauspicious for the business on which he knew she had come.
This, therefore, seemed an inauspicious moment for falling in love, and of proposing to himself to take a wife.
Claire asked, in some anxiety as to the success of an enterprise which seemed to have had such inauspicious results.
A thick fog almost immediately came on, and a sixth gale sprung up under the most inauspicious appearances.
For tears and cries are the inauspicious signs by which children show what they love and hate.
Nor is the reverse of the picture, the contrast between the high and low clergy, less inauspicious.
It is inauspicious to their creed, that the reflex act of the mind is purely the affair of experience.
Sufficient, however, had been wrought to test its value, and they were not discouraged by this inauspicious commencement.
The idea of the inauspicious nature of the day was long prevalent, and is even not yet wholly extinct.
It was an inauspicious moment to appear before her, but Lulu marched boldly in, holding up her string of fish.
Of all the times when an attempt was ever made to carry this measure, is not this the most inauspicious?
If tradition is to be believed, it was the inauspicious fruit to which may be traced all the miseries of mankind.
Such an inauspicious event on the morning of my intended departure for the Darling was by no means encouraging.
These were the inauspicious beginnings of the pursuit; and the middle part and the ending varied only in degree.
Their grandeur of soul could not all be suppressed by environment in this life, however inauspicious for their development.
Presently we swept once more between the Islands into that glorious Bay which we had left under such inauspicious circumstances.
Though a more inauspicious time, seemingly, could not have been found, he had strong confidence in Frank's ability to aid him.
Fine arms are inauspicious implements, hated by all things; and he who holds to Nature will not continue to use them.
Oh, here will I set up my everlasting rest, and shake the yoke of inauspicious stars from this world-wearied flesh!
I should certainly consider any earlier day of your retirement as the most inauspicious day our new government has ever seen.
Never did a man return to his native land under more auspicious conditions who had gone thence under conditions so inauspicious.
This inauspicious time covers an hour and a half of each day of the week and is at a different hour every day.
Alarmed and unhappy, Lady Percy wearied her daughter with inquiries as to the cause of this inauspicious change; but in vain.
It would seem an inauspicious hour to begin a search which might lead him on in poverty for years and end nowhere.
She had a special love for the planet Jupiter, and a belief that the month of September was inauspicious to her.
While the English interests wore so inauspicious an aspect in this quarter, their prospects were not much better among the Iroquois.
If one of the latter is wounded or killed, the attack is abandoned at once, such an occurrence being considered extremely inauspicious.
Said the baron, curling his inauspicious lip, and giving expression to a feeling that looked very like one of contempt or ridicule.
That certain names are auspicious and others inauspicious is a belief that belongs everywhere to mankind in the primitive stage of thought.
Such an event being considered inauspicious in China, the Emperor decreed that the new year should begin on the previous day.
The person who is about to die is laid on the floor of the middle room, for it is inauspicious to die on a cot.
At last the summer arrived, August was the inauspicious month in which my dear son was to enter on his eighth year.
It seemed an inauspicious moment to make the acquaintance of the train crew, so we returned to the welcome shade of the water tank.
By both parties it was considered to be an inauspicious manifestation, and merely to point at it would produce a sore on the hand.
Such was the inauspicious beginning of the holidays, which had been to Colin, for months back, the subject of so many dreams.
Is the guilt ours who see it, or have life and history really altered their conjunction and an inauspicious star risen between them?
The Queen gave me this inauspicious curiosity, desiring me to preserve it, as it would be a curious illustration of the history of the Revolution.
I beg you, however, to consider that September 28th is an inauspicious anniversary for me, because it dates from so far in the past.
And now, at this inauspicious hour, and fired thereto by a successful dinner and an excellent opportunity, the lover offered himself again.
It is also believed that certain days are auspicious for performing certain acts, while others are inauspicious for the performance of the same acts.
The business of the selection was soon over, and the men were dismissed to begin, as inauspicious a voyage as could well be imagined.
If happily constituted, he may defy the most inauspicious surroundings to alter his habits of thought or change his settled purpose in life.
There were also days which were thought especially favorable for martial operations, but the anniversary of a national misfortune was considered very inauspicious.
The newspaper man who brought it to me consented, after some argument, for old friendship's sake, not to release it at this inauspicious moment.
In the olden time, people were occupied according to their caste, but now they pursue any vocation they choose, carefully avoiding the inauspicious hours.
What would I not have given could I have returned to the situation in which the inauspicious arrival of the stranger had found me?
From every point of view, as the President remarked, the transfer of this vast province to a new master was "an inauspicious circumstance."
That they had become so much less frequent than they were in former years he regarded as one of the inauspicious features of the times.
If the eleventh day happens to fall on a Tuesday or Friday, or on any inauspicious day, the period is extended to the thirteenth day.
The time at last came, and August was the inauspicious month in which young Dryden was to enter into the eighth year of his age.
It made its appearance in the world near twelve months ago, small in stature, dressed in a very humble garb, and under very inauspicious circumstances.
Her most critical year is her thirty-third, and not only this year itself, but the years immediately preceding and following are considered inauspicious.
The prospects of the campaign were therefore the most inauspicious possible, and the silence which was maintained on that account was still more alarming.
Quite a youth when he entered Abyssinia, he suffered four years of imprisonment in chains, for no reason whatever except that he arrived at an inauspicious time.
Fear and resentment made the princes forget the customs of civilization, and the messengers were put to death, an inauspicious opening for the coming struggle.
The convention itself, owing to bad weather and other inauspicious circumstances, was not a large one, but its character and action were significant and important.
It was deemed inauspicious if a host sent his guests away from a feast without giving each of them a piece of cake, or such like, to take home.
There is sin in accepting gifts from, and danger in making gifts to them, whose very sight is inauspicious and whose companionship is fraught with danger.
Everything occurred to him inauspicious to his suit; his own situation, the short time she had known him, his uncertainty of the state of her affections.
Fear-stricken and wretched as he had been, his removal, nevertheless, seemed to her to render the lonely and inauspicious mansion still more desolate and ominous than before.
It was a day that was as inauspicious as having given birth to Nathaniel in the first Gulf War and then returning to him in the sequel.
It will not be in May nor in early March or June, nor on certain other dates which, for reasons mostly long forgotten, were regarded as inauspicious.
This was an inauspicious commencement for a country so polished; and yet, when one comes to look at the causes, it is not easy to point out an alternative.
There were no tears in them now, but a certain half-frightened, half-mischievous light instead, as if she rather enjoyed the adventure, in spite of its inauspicious opening.
There was a time when his aunt had had mercy on him and had come into his life despite the inauspicious marriage that her sister had made.
My friends, I desire to again express to you my regret that to give us this magnificent welcome, under circumstances so inauspicious, you have been exposed to so much wet.
The most eligible animal can be condemned for a curling hair or an inauspicious touch of color by a master of horse whose palm has not been properly greased.
A tragic sight confronted him; but his own march had been so dismal, so inauspicious that everything unfortunate that had happened seemed but a part of one huge catastrophe.
The coach remained half-an-hour or more in the yard of the prison till all was in readiness, when the gates were thrown open, and we commenced our inauspicious journey.
The next attempt was more fortunate, the boats reaching Lake Erie without farther attack; but the inauspicious opening of the expedition was followed by results yet more disastrous.
The Marquise detected that inauspicious note, and was moved by it to regret her already of having embarked upon so bold a game as to confront Monsieur de Garnache with Valerie.
Let us hope that the new government, in spite of its very inauspicious commencement, may at least, by its honesty and sincerity, form a brilliant contrast to its predecessor.
It was therefore determined that, notwithstanding the inauspicious plight of the bridegroom, it should take place at the time before fixed upon, four months after the beginning of the engagement.
His brain was full of mournful strains and inauspicious sounds; he lived no longer as a man, but his fever kept him up, he flew as it were in the air.
Alexander regarded the infant as a very slender thread binding him to home, for it was evident it would soon leave the world it had entered at so inauspicious a time.