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But open thine ears, O haruspex, and all you others too shall hear.— Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works
The haruspex ordered that the "ill-used man" should be set at liberty.— Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works
Pentaur indignantly repelled the accusations of the old man, called them unworthy of his age, his position, and his name, and for fear that his anger might carry him too far, turned his back upon him; but the haruspex ordered him to remain, and in his presence questioned the priests, who unanimously accused the poet of having admitted to the temple another unpurified woman besides Bent-Anat, and of having expelled the gate-keeper and thrown him into prison for opposing the crime.— Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works
Celestials than a cask of attar of roses would please thee, haruspex, in which scorpions, centipedes, and venomous snakes were swimming.— Uarda : a Romance of Ancient Egypt — Complete
= the secret place of enchanters; cf. hêlsmanna gehyld, Gr. 's reading, after A. - S. hælsere, haruspex, augur. l.— Beowulf
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