The start was made auspiciously.
"Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North"
Fullerton Waldo
"Once in the desired position, weighted down as you are, there is little danger of your becoming displaced," remarked the Mandarin auspiciously.
"Kai Lung's Golden Hours"
Ernest Bramah Commentator: Hilaire Belloc
Piqued by her failure to maintain the interest she had so auspiciously begun to excite in the distinguished guest, Miss Popkiss turned in a huff to the window, and affected a melancholy interest in the heavy shower which had come on, to be roused suddenly from her air of indifference to things in general and the preoccupied gourmandizer in particular by catching sight of the adventurous Mr. Thomas Sparrow sheltering under a lean-to a few feet from the window.
"A Poached Peerage"
William Magnay