In Stuart times all ranks of society believed in her, and referring to her supposed foretelling of the Great Fire, Pepys relates that when Prince Rupert heard, while sailing up the Thames on the 10th of October 1666, of the outbreak of the fire "all he said was, ` now Shipton's prophecy was out.'" One of her prophecies was supposed to have menaced Yeovil, Somerset, with an earthquake and flood in 1879, and so convinced were the peasantry of the truth of her prognostications that hundreds moved from their cottages on the eve of the expected disaster, while spectators swarmed in from all quarters of the county to see the town's destruction. [Please select]
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They took it out of the pilgrims in gloomy prognostications concerning the weather. [Please select]
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CHAPTER XXVIII "COME AND KILL THE BOGIE" NOTWITHSTANDING Nancy's dismal prognostications, Maggie Oliphant played her part brilliantly that night. [Please select]
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The Rector's party was the only thing spoken about, and many were the prognostications with regard to the weather. [Please select]
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There was a marked improvement in her spirits, and she indulged in no prognostications of evil for an unusual period. [Please select]
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Had he, for instance, let fall any opinions, prognostications on the political and financial situation. [Please select]
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Lily heard her fling out as the climax of her prognostications; and Stepney responded, as if struck: "Jove, that's an idea." [Please select]
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