Everything Auguring well for our prospects, we encamped to enjoy the good cheer, for which our troubles and privations, during the transit of the Ukawendi forests and jungles, had well prepared us.
"How I Found Livingstone"
Sir Henry M. Stanley
So sudden and unexpected was his appearance at the moment, that I really felt but half awake, and kept puzzling myself for an explanation of the scene, rather than thinking of a reply to his question; perceiving which, and Auguring but badly from my silence, he continued- "Am I then, really deceived in what I believed to be an old and tried friend?"
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
A second's consideration showed that in the search that must ensue this would afford no refuge, so I at once opened the sash, and endeavoured to ascertain at what height I was above the ground beneath me; the night was so dark that I could see nothing, but judging from the leaves and twigs that reached to the window, that it was a garden beneath, and Auguring from the perfumed smell of the shrubs, that they could not be tall trees, I resolved to leap, a resolve I had little time to come to, for the step of the soldiers was already heard upon the stair.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)