To have commenced the battle at so inauspicious a moment would have been little worthy of a great captain.
"Anna St. Ives"
Thomas Holcroft
We had evidently called at an inauspicious moment, for Lat seemed rather annoyed at being disturbed from his "siesta," and, to judge from his looks, had been having a high time of it during the feast.
"On the Equator"
Harry de Windt
Is there, within your enlightened knowledge, the house of one Shen Yi, who makes a feast to-day, positioned about this inauspicious region?
"Kai Lung's Golden Hours"
Ernest Bramah Commentator: Hilaire Belloc