Citations:auspices

English citations of auspices

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• 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:

  But not content with this good deed, the indefatigable house again bestirred itself: Samuel and all his Sons — how many, their mother only knows — and under their immediate auspices, and partly, I think, at their expense, the British government was induced to send the sloop-of-war Rattler on a whaling voyage of discovery into the South Sea.