auspiciously

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The day had begun auspiciously, and over the bacon and eggs, done to a ravishing brown by the little Jap, he told Mary Josephine of some of his bills of fare in the north and how yesterday he had filled up on bacon smell at Andy Duggan's.

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  1. In an auspicious manner; with favorable omens; happily; prosperously; favorably; propitiously. I looked for ruin; and encrease of honour Meets me auspiciously. Middleton, Witch, iv. 1.

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  • Perchance, auspiciously, for our current President,, last July campaign distractions dominated the news cycle. —  My Left Wing - Front Page
  • Rather more auspiciously, it is one of the more notable details of his time at the Treasury that his close advisers included David Cameron, described in Lamont's memoirs as a "brilliant Old Etonian with a taste for the good life" - a description he proves very reluctant to flesh out, aside from the observation that "he liked jetskiing". —  Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
  • Spring elections had resulted auspiciously, and the popularity of Clay seemed unfailing. —  A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3
  • The year 1857 opened auspiciously, and I continued to prosper almost to the end of it, when a storm swept over the commercial world, which involved hundreds of firms in bankruptcy and ruin From the nature of my business it was scarcely possible I could escape, and although I succeeded in avoiding bad debts, I incurred indirect losses to a very considerable amount. —  Six Years in the Prisons of England
  • In all other respects I did splendidly The morning of the tenth day of this remarkable but, on the whole, uneventful voyage of mine in the life-boat dawned auspiciously, and the daily routine into which I had settled began. —  The Strange Adventures of Eric Blackburn
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