augur's

We had hardly lost sight of our friends when we met Maytera Marble, more or less dressed in an augur's robe so long it swept the tunnel floor, with Quetzal in her arms.

Exodus From The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1996

Then he told Auk the Chapter's got records about all this stuff, where every augur's at and what he's doing there, and they're in the Palace, and Patera knows where and how to read them.

Exodus From The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1996

He was wearing an ordinary augur's robe; but he bore the baculus, his rod of office, which he used as a staff.

Exodus From The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1996

Squatting again, he picked up the old augur's body and carried it to the ambulatory.

Exodus From The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1996

Hours ago, when he had put it on in the Juzgado, it had carried in its long train a sensation of oppressive and almost suffocating warmth; he had been sorely tempted to substitute a cheap (and therefore thin) augur's robe for the luxuriously thick one he was wearing under it, although Master Xiphias and Commissioner Trematode had dissuaded him.

Exodus From The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1996

He was wearing the Cloak of Lawful Governance over his augur's robe; it fell to his shoe-tops and was of the thickest tea-colored velvet, stiff with gold thread.

Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994

The senior augur's glass, in what was now Patera Gulo's room, was out of order and had been for decades; this one, the senior sibyl's, was still functioning, perhaps only because it had been less used.

Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994

Silk looked down upon the dying augur's body with joy and regret.

Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994

A holy augur's part is to lead and to advise, to conduct the laity to rich fields and unfailing springs, if I may put it thus poetically.

Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994

The augur's voice shook with joy, and he released the halyard.

Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994