A large tame snake with a false human head, wound round Alexander's body as he sat in a shrine in the temple, gave " autophones " or oracles unasked, but the usual methods practised were those of the numerous oracle-mongers of the time, of which Lucian gives a detailed account, the opening of sealed inquiries by heated needles, a neat plan of forging broken seals, and the giving of vague or meaningless replies to difficult questions, coupled with a lucrative blackmailing of those whose inquiries were compromising. [Please select]
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Erckmann's "sensation-mongers," after attacking everyone else, turned to rend the few remaining figures they had set on pedestals the previous August. [Please select]
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Before the war, certain scandals concerning his private life had exiled him from Court--mere lampoons of the socialists and scandal-mongers. [Please select]
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He tried to rise superior to this petty talk of scandal-mongers, but it was not always possible when he remembered Terry. [Please select]
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"And watched the gossips and scandal-mongers twist their barbs in Mrs." [Please select]
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The German lie-mongers whisper: "It is the last time you will see your boy." [Please select]
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A gentle wife, a noble spouse she walks, Nor ever with the gossip mongers talks. [Please select]
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But Dryden spent the best parts of his life as a panderer to the vices of the town, and was an idol chiefly, in Wills's Coffee House, of lampooners, and idlers, and scandal-mongers. [Please select]
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There were musicians in her ladyship's household--youths who played lute and viol, and sang the dainty, meaningless songs of the latest ballad-mongers very prettily. [Please select]
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