Sentence example with the word 'soothsaying'

soothsaying

Definition n. the art or gift of prophecy

Last update: September 27, 2015


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The great blot on his memory is his cruelty, which at times was frightful, and showed itself in its full fierceness in the punishment of persons accused of witchcraft, soothsaying or magical practices.   [Please select]

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And on the morrow, when the day was far spent, such preparations were made as were necessary to enable her to accomplish her soothsaying.   [Please select]

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"Well, I do not mind taking soothsaying from you, if you had soothsaying for me, and you would be willing to do it."   [Please select]

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I say by stealth; because his ostensible occupation of soothsaying and fortune-telling was not his only business.   [Please select]

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His house was really a place of illicit meeting, and the soothsaying was often but an excuse for going there.   [Please select]

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It is equally true that the large proportion of persons who visited Grouche made his soothsaying an excuse.   [Please select]

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Social life in Greenland in tenth century, soothsaying, 21-23; Yule feast, 31.   [Please select]

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But the old woman, sure of it beforehand, took his soothsaying quite calmly, and only desired to be carried up to her observatory that she might watch the risings of the stars.   [Please select]

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Catharine--dear Lady Kitty--dear Kate--" "I like not so fast a soothsaying in any suitor of mine," replied Lady Catharine, hotly, "and this shall go no further.   [Please select]

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