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  • Not because she was clairvoyant and had had a sudden flash of prophetic vision.†   (source)
  • There's a large rose bush filling almost the whole of Nancy's enclosure — the old broadsheet ballad, then, was prophetic — but no vine in Thomas Kinnear's.†   (source)
  • Although in retrospect I suppose it could be considered at least partially prophetic.†   (source)
  • The prophetic legends had taken on Arrakis even to the extent of adopted labels (including Reverend Mother, canto and respondu, and most of the Shari-a panoplia propheticus).†   (source)
  • Was Sophie's dream prophetic?†   (source)
  • Is that supposed to be prophetic?†   (source)
  • It was at that meeting that Oliver uttered prophetic words: "Today it is the Communist Party.†   (source)
  • The story she told about her third daughter no longer had the charm of a prophetic ending: "And, of course, she became a poet."†   (source)
  • The wooden houses, the cool terraces for breezy card-playing afternoons, seemed to have been blown away in an anticipation of the prophetic wind that years later would wipe Macondo off the face of the earth.†   (source)
  • Her words proved prophetic; none of the soldiers managed to land a blow.†   (source)
  • Leader's misgivings quickly proved prophetic.†   (source)
  • Prophetic.†   (source)
  • And my journey through the Louvre that last night I've described to you, that was merely prophetic.†   (source)
  • Ten months and eleven days later he would recall Luisa Mora's prophetic words, when they took Alba away in the middle of the night, while the curfew was in force.†   (source)
  • The chaplain memorized the prophetic words solemnly, entranced further by their esoteric import.†   (source)
  • His lips were full, almost womanly, and there was a dreamy, prophetic quality to his face.†   (source)
  • You might call it the prescient community or the prophetic community.†   (source)
  • She didn't know the name of the song, but she took the words as prophetic.†   (source)
  • The war, he warned prophetically in a speech on February 22, could last ten years.†   (source)
  • Only a dream, but prophetic enough in one way, at least.†   (source)
  • His pastoral letter was prophetic.†   (source)
  • Yes, I did encounter the Angel, but it's Clary who had the prophetic dreams.†   (source)
  • For a man who has achieved his own level of greatness in the eyes of so many, those words were both prophetic and wise.†   (source)
  • His words to Liang on the harbour walk had been prophetic, thought Bourne.†   (source)
  • Some -such as Ralph McGill, Lillian Smith, Harry Golden, James McBride Dabbs, Ann Braden and Sarah Patton Boyle--have written about our struggle in eloquent and prophetic terms.†   (source)
  • An almost lifelong Southern liberal, conscious of the South's injustices, my father had never been given to shifting unreasonably the various racial evils of the South onto the shoulders of the North; with some surprise, therefore, I listened to him attentively, unaware—during that summer of 1947—of just how prophetic his words were to prove.†   (source)
  • His father's face, always awful, became more awful now; his father's daily anger was transformed into prophetic wrath.†   (source)
  • His words were unerringly prophetic.†   (source)
  • But the soldiers were sullen with cold, and very grave or angry, and Old Man McCaleb was there with his beard flying and his finger pointing prophetically in the direction of upstream.†   (source)
  • And the sound of her own voice, calm, prophetic, fatal, fell on her ears like a warning.†   (source)
  • Christian fundamentalists often insist that the Bible is infallible in its various prophetic assertions.   (source)
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  • My students think these movies are prophetic.†   (source)
  • Muad'Dib claimed the spice as a key to his prophetic powers.†   (source)
  • They had been some of my less successful prophetic franchises.†   (source)
  • "So, Python," the man continued, "any prophetic words to share with me?"†   (source)
  • Let us hope this dream was not prophetic.†   (source)
  • Here was the difference between them, Adams replied prophetically.†   (source)
  • The bus had been owned by the weirdly, prophetically named Titanic Express.†   (source)
  • She might have seen heroism prophetically when she was young and afraid of Miss Eckhart.†   (source)
  • She might be able to see it now prophetically, but she was never a prophet.†   (source)
  • Some said it was because Helios had always hated Kronos' vaunting pride; others whispered that his prophetic gift gave him foreknowledge of the outcome of the war.†   (source)
  • I remembered Horace's prophetic dream of ash clouds and scorched earth, and I realized what he'd been seeing.†   (source)
  • Years ago, she somehow came across a copy of the prophetic books, which we thought were burned before the Fall of Rome.†   (source)
  • How was I to know that Gaea would take advantage of the chaos of war and raise my oldest, greatest enemy from the depths of Tartarus so he could take possession of his old lair in the cave of Delphi and cut off the source of my prophetic power?†   (source)
  • Prophetic.†   (source)
  • Then, in a prophetic paragraph that would be quoted for generations within the Adams family and beyond, he wrote: I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.†   (source)
  • He was confident all would be well and concluded prophetically, "This commotion will terminate in additional strength to the government.†   (source)
  • …could poor backward Poland (Sophie often heard him say), losing its identity with clockwork regularity to oppressor after oppressor—especially the barbarous Russians, who were now also in the grip of the Communist antichrist—find salvation and cultural grace except through the intercession of Germany, which had so magnificently fused a historic tradition of mythic radiance and the supertechnology of the twentieth century, creating a prophetic synthesis for lesser nations to turn to?†   (source)
  • …we sat drinking (he bourbon, I that steadfast spirit of my nonage—Rheingold) and talking, largely about the gulf which separated this devil's spawn of an urban blight north of the Chesapeake and the South's Elysian meadows (in this realm my father could scarcely have been less prophetic, not having foreseen Atlanta), I was able more than once to reflect somberly on how my old man's imbroglio with Thomas McGuire had at least allowed me momentary diversion from my newly acquired despair.†   (source)
  • In a gray housedress prophetic of an institution she was making her way along, about to be touched, prodded, any minute, but not worrying about it.†   (source)
  • He was glad to feel himself in the role of companion and advisor to the artist-just as he had felt, in that prophetic way, his only audience last night.†   (source)
  • Why, March, let the prophetic soul of the wide world dreaming on things to come (S.†   (source)
  • Instantly that stupid face became intense, prophetic, full of awful meaning.†   (source)
  • Archimedes sighed heavily, and remarked in prophetic tones, "You had better get it off your chest."†   (source)
  • Some of these books were, on the face of it, frivolous and facetious; but many, on the other hand, were serious and prophetic, moral and hortatory.†   (source)
  • In the already opening gulf on whose separate shores their lives were founded, she was beginning to look, with the infinite composure, the tremendous patience which waits through half a lifetime for an event, not so much with certain foresight, as with a prophetic, brooding instinct.†   (source)
  • Some of these prophetic writings were actually serialized in our newspapers and read with as much avidity as the love-stories that had occupied these columns in the piping times of health.†   (source)
  • …seemed to stand, to lurk, behind the neat picket fence of a small, grimly middle-class yard or lawn, looking out upon the whatever ogreworld of that quiet village street with that air of children born too late into their parents' lives and doomed to contemplate all human behavior through the complex and needless follies of adults—an air Cassandralike and humorless and profoundly and sternly prophetic out of all proportion to the actual years even of a child who had never been young.†   (source)
  • The sad prophetic story, a brief and terrible summary of the waste, the tardiness, and the ruin of their lives, silenced them for a moment with its inexorable sense of tragedy.†   (source)
  • Their names dropped musically like small fat bird-notes through the freckled sunlight of a young world: prophetically he brooded on the sweet lost bird-cries of their names, knowing they never would return.†   (source)
  • She laughed a laugh that was like a prophetic croak.†   (source)
  • Yet it had passed, and now the afterlights were luminous, beautiful, prophetic.†   (source)
  • "Prophetic," said the doctor, touching this picture with his finger.†   (source)
  • Another of Medora's fads—really this time it was almost prophetic!†   (source)
  • In the flesh, Mrs. Opal Emerson Mudge fell somewhat short of a prophetic aspect.†   (source)
  • And yet the old squaw Tistig, at Gayhead, said that the name would somehow prove prophetic.†   (source)
  • The air with which Mr. Doolittle delivered this prophetical opinion was peculiar to his species.†   (source)
  • Nobody controverted the prophetic gentleman's opinion.†   (source)
  • "Anything more?" asked Laurie, finding it hard to listen patiently to this prophetic burst.†   (source)
  • Many added that he looked sublime and prophetic.†   (source)
  • If Bulstrode should turn out to be a rascal, Frank Hawley had a prophetic soul.†   (source)
  • As I look back on my struggle to write that little story, it seems to me that I must have had a prophetic vision of the good that would come of the undertaking, or I should surely have failed.†   (source)
  • In his address the previous Monday (dealing, as always, with love as a force conducive to illness), the psychoanalyst had made special mention of epilepsy, which in preanalytic days had been seen variously as a holy, indeed prophetic affliction or as a sign of demonic possession, but which he described in half poetic, half ruthlessly scientific terms as the equivalent of love, an orgasm of the brain—in brief, made it sound so suspect that his audience was now forced to see Popov's…†   (source)
  • Everyone seemed to be speaking prophetically, hinting at some misfortune or sorrow to come; they had all looked at him as though they knew something which he did not know.†   (source)
  • Babbitt spoke well—and often—at these orgies of commercial righteousness about the "realtor's function as a seer of the future development of the community, and as a prophetic engineer clearing the pathway for inevitable changes"—which meant that a real-estate broker could make money by guessing which way the town would grow.†   (source)
  • …knitted, spent four nights out of seven at home with her son), so that not only did his colleagues respect him, his subordinates fear him, but the friends and relations of his patients felt for him the keenest gratitude for insisting that these prophetic Christs and Christesses, who prophesied the end of the world, or the advent of God, should drink milk in bed, as Sir William ordered; Sir William with his thirty years' experience of these kinds of cases, and his infallible instinct,…†   (source)
  • Well, it was a sad sight to me; and whether it was because of my thoughts of Alan, or from something prophetic in my bosom, although this was but the second time I had seen King George's troops, I had no good will to them.†   (source)
  • VII On the morning appointed for her departure Tess was awake before dawn—at the marginal minute of the dark when the grove is still mute, save for one prophetic bird who sings with a clear-voiced conviction that he at least knows the correct time of day, the rest preserving silence as if equally convinced that he is mistaken.†   (source)
  • Beautiful golden veils, misty, ethereal, shone in rays across the gulch from the broken ramparts; and they seemed so brilliant, so rich, prophetic of the treasures of the hills.†   (source)
  • But the other gave him a glance as from the depths of a tomb, and raised his limp hand in a prophetic manner and turned away.†   (source)
  • Shefford took one more fascinated gaze at her dark, eloquent, prophetic face, at the tragic tiny shape by her side, and then with bowed head he left the hogan…….†   (source)
  • His mother claimed the prophetic power herself—she had seen a strange look about Mrs. Wilcox for some time.†   (source)
  • Why did he, day by day, grow more silent, calmer, cooler, yet sadder in prophetic assurance of something to be?†   (source)
  • Richard and Moncharmin listened to the old woman, who, as she proceeded with the enumeration of these glorious nuptials, swelled out, took courage and, at last, in a voice bursting with pride, flung out the last sentence of the prophetic letter: 1885.†   (source)
  • When I buy the Times and find you there, my prophetic ear catches a rattle of twentieth century tumbrils.†   (source)
  • …he always wore a frock coat and sandals, no longer dealt with masked forms of love in action or the transformation of illness back into conscious emotion, but with the abstruse oddities of hypnotism and somnambulism, the phenomena of telepathy, prophetic dreams, and second sight, the wonders of hysteria; and as he discussed these topics, philosophic horizons expanded until suddenly his audience beheld great riddles shimmering before their eyes, riddles about the relationship between…†   (source)
  • The whole story was revealed, simple enough in the sum of its complicated details, strange and beautiful in part, remorseless in its proof of great love on Stewart's side, in dreaming blindness on her own, and, from the first fatal moment to the last, prophetic of tragedy.†   (source)
  • Gigantic pansies, considerably larger than the roses, and closely resembling the floral pen-wipers made by female parishioners for fashionable clergymen, sprang from the moss beneath the rose-trees; and here and there a daisy grafted on a rose-branch flowered with a luxuriance prophetic of Mr. Luther Burbank's far-off prodigies.†   (source)
  • A sort of prophetic spirit and an afflatus of the future circulates there, swelling hearts and enlarging souls.†   (source)
  • …concert,—had gone shopping about the city, ransacking entire depots of splendid merchandise, and bringing home a ribbon,—had employed, likewise, a little time to read the Bible in her chamber, and had stolen a little more to think of her mother and her native place—unless for such moral medicines as the above, we should soon have beheld our poor Phoebe grow thin and put on a bleached, unwholesome aspect, and assume strange, shy ways, prophetic of old-maidenhood and a cheerless future.†   (source)
  • Behind me, field and meadow sleeping, I leave in deep, prophetic night, Within whose dread and holy keeping The better soul awakes to light.†   (source)
  • "Men of the Lenape!" he said, in low, hollow tones, that sounded like a voice charged with some prophetic mission: "the face of the Manitou is behind a cloud!†   (source)
  • Thus spoke my prophetic soul, as, torn by remorse, horror, and despair, I beheld those I loved spend vain sorrow upon the graves of William and Justine, the first hapless victims to my unhallowed arts.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Southcott had recently attained her five-and-twentieth blessed birthday, of whom a prophetic private in the Life Guards had heralded the sublime appearance by announcing that arrangements were made for the swallowing up of London and Westminster.†   (source)
  • This was not news, but now it was seen to have been sorrowfully prophetic, and a profound sensation quivered through the hushed courtroom when those dismal words were repeated.†   (source)
  • There was always a prophetic instinct, a low whisper in my ear, that within no long period, and whenever a new change of custom should be essential to my good, change would come.†   (source)
  • Mr. Knightley had spoken prophetically, when he once said, "Emma, you have been no friend to Harriet Smith.†   (source)
  • If his prophetic soul had been urged to particularize, it seemed to him that "fits" would have been the definite expression alighted upon.†   (source)
  • My liege, as clear as the vision of an eagle does my prophetic eye penetrate and lay bare the future of this world for nearly thirteen centuries and a half!†   (source)
  • Make me think it was something more—that it was a sort of prophetic instinct—the beginning of a feeling that you would like me.†   (source)
  • If this forlorn man could have been prophetically seen lying here by the mother at whose breast he nestled, a little child, with eyes upraised to her loving face, and soft hand scarcely knowing how to close upon the neck to which it crept, what an impossibility the vision would have seemed!†   (source)
  • They were the works of philosophers of the middle ages, such as Albertus Magnus, Cornelius Agrippa, Paracelsus, and the famous friar who created the prophetic Brazen Head.†   (source)
  • Be it what it may, it rested in the heart of Eva, a calm, sweet, prophetic certainty that Heaven was near; calm as the light of sunset, sweet as the bright stillness of autumn, there her little heart reposed, only troubled by sorrow for those who loved her so dearly.†   (source)
  • But it has ceased to be prophetic; the destruction of the Indian race in the United States is already consummated.†   (source)
  • His father, with the steadfast look with which he had died, prophetically darkened forth in the portrait; his mother, with her arm up, warding off his suspicion; Little Dorrit, with her hand on the degraded arm, and her drooping head turned away.†   (source)
  • "The Blood Drinker," ' added Mr Crummles with a prophetic sigh, ' "The Blood Drinker" will die with that girl; and she's the only sylph I ever saw, who could stand upon one leg, and play the tambourine on her other knee, LIKE a sylph.'†   (source)
  • "There it is, Bessy; it's what I've been telling you," said Mrs. Pullet, in a tone of prophetic sadness; "it's your children,—there's no knowing what they'll come to."†   (source)
  • I know him,' said the Old Soldier, fanning herself, in a sort of calm prophetic agony, 'and I know he'll die there, sooner than he'll overturn the Doctor's plans.'†   (source)
  • As the period fixed for our marriage drew nearer, whether from cowardice or a prophetic feeling, I felt my heart sink within me.†   (source)
  • And now, indeed, I began to think that in my old association of her with the stained-glass window in the church, a prophetic foreshadowing of what she would be to me, in the calamity that was to happen in the fullness of time, had found a way into my mind.†   (source)
  • He was engaged in thought; he quivered, as at the passage of prophetic breaths; places where death is have these effects of tripods.†   (source)
  • Before many years elapsed, the business began to be carried on in the names of 'Cheeryble and Nickleby,' so that Mrs Nickleby's prophetic anticipations were realised at last.†   (source)
  • To the world's wife there had always been something in Miss Tulliver's very physique that a refined instinct felt to be prophetic of harm.†   (source)
  • …forward to claim that extraordinary reward; that the latter fact was good circumstantial evidence that the claim that the knife had been stolen was a vanity and a fraud; that these details taken in connection with the memorable and apparently prophetic speech of the deceased concerning that knife, and the final discovery of that very knife in the fatal room where no living person was found present with the slaughtered man but the owner of the knife and his brother, form an…†   (source)
  • _ and, as if repeated by an invisible voice, came the words of an old prophetic scroll, as Eva had often read them to him,—"Fear not! for I have redeemed thee.†   (source)
  • It appears, at first sight not unreasonable to suppose, that, if he had entertained a becoming feeling of respect for the prediction of the gentleman in the white waistcoat, he would have established that sage individual's prophetic character, once and for ever, by tying one end of his pocket-handkerchief to a hook in the wall, and attaching himself to the other.†   (source)
  • But the little stream would not be comforted, and still kept telling its unintelligible secret of some very mournful mystery that had happened—or making a prophetic lamentation about something that was yet to happen—within the verge of the dismal forest.†   (source)
  • With such triumphs of aerial architecture did Mrs Nickleby occupy the whole evening after her accidental introduction to Ralph's titled friends; and dreams, no less prophetic and equally promising, haunted her sleep that night.†   (source)
  • If he had given any utterance to his, and they were prophetic, they would have been these: "I see Barsad, and Cly, Defarge, The Vengeance, the Juryman, the Judge, long ranks of the new oppressors who have risen on the destruction of the old, perishing by this retributive instrument, before it shall cease out of its present use.†   (source)
  • Maggie always writhed under this judgment of Tom's; she rebelled and was humiliated in the same moment; it seemed as if he held a glass before her to show her her own folly and weakness, as if he were a prophetic voice predicting her future fallings; and yet, all the while, she judged him in return; she said inwardly that he was narrow and unjust, that he was below feeling those mental needs which were often the source of the wrong-doing or absurdity that made her life a planless…†   (source)
  • No soul was prophetic enough to have any foreboding as to what might appear on the trial of Joshua Rigg.†   (source)
  • My mother was sitting by the fire, but poorly in health, and very low in spirits, looking at it through her tears, and desponding heavily about herself and the fatherless little stranger, who was already welcomed by some grosses of prophetic pins, in a drawer upstairs, to a world not at all excited on the subject of his arrival; my mother, I say, was sitting by the fire, that bright, windy March afternoon, very timid and sad, and very doubtful of ever coming alive out of the trial that…†   (source)
  • "That is what I expect, you know," said Mr. Brooke, not wishing to betray how little he enjoyed this prophetic sketch—"what I expect as an independent man.†   (source)
  • It contained that concentrated experience which in great crises of emotion reveals the bias of a nature, and is prophetic of the ultimate act which will end an intermediate struggle.†   (source)
  • Fred did not enter into formal reasons, which are a very artificial, inexact way of representing the tingling returns of old habit, and the caprices of young blood: but there was lurking in him a prophetic sense that evening, that when he began to play he should also begin to bet—that he should enjoy some punch-drinking, and in general prepare himself for feeling "rather seedy" in the morning.†   (source)
  • The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic.†   (source)
  • And now, O men who have condemned me, I would fain prophesy to you; for I am about to die, and in the hour of death men are gifted with prophetic power.†   (source)
  • For closure, the last dactyl is always treated as a spondee, and the final five syllables often make a regular rhythmic phrase (as "pines and the hemlocks," and "sad and prophetic").†   (source)
  • It has the prophetic vision.†   (source)
  • Twilight phantoms are they, yet moulded in prophetic grace of structure, slim shapely haunches, a supple tendonous neck, the meek apprehensive skull.†   (source)
  • In sum an infinite great fall of rain and all refreshed and will much increase the harvest yet those in ken say after wind and water fire shall come for a prognostication of Malachi's almanac (and I hear that Mr Russell has done a prophetical charm of the same gist out of the Hindustanish for his farmer's gazette) to have three things in all but this a mere fetch without bottom of reason for old crones and bairns yet sometimes they are found in the right guess with their queerities no…†   (source)
  • Prophetic joys of better, loftier love's ideals, the divine wife, the sweet, eternal, perfect comrade?†   (source)
  • While through the interior vistas, Noiseless uprose, phantasmic, (as by night Auroras of the north,) Lambent tableaus, prophetic, bodiless scenes, Spiritual projections.†   (source)
  • Song at Sunset Splendor of ended day floating and filling me, Hour prophetic, hour resuming the past, Inflating my throat, you divine average, You earth and life till the last ray gleams I sing.†   (source)
  • Over the Carnage Rose Prophetic a Voice Over the carnage rose prophetic a voice, Be not dishearten'd, affection shall solve the problems of freedom yet, Those who love each other shall become invincible, They shall yet make Columbia victorious.†   (source)
  • Over the carnage rose prophetic a voice, Be not dishearten'd, affection shall solve the problems of freedom yet, Those who love each other shall become invincible, They shall yet make Columbia victorious.†   (source)
  • Melange mine own, the unseen and the seen, Mysterious ocean where the streams empty, Prophetic spirit of materials shifting and flickering around me, Living beings, identities now doubtless near us in the air that we know not of, Contact daily and hourly that will not release me, These selecting, these in hints demanded of me.†   (source)
  • 5 O vast Rondure, swimming in space, Cover'd all over with visible power and beauty, Alternate light and day and the teeming spiritual darkness, Unspeakable high processions of sun and moon and countless stars above, Below, the manifold grass and waters, animals, mountains, trees, With inscrutable purpose, some hidden prophetic intention, Now first it seems my thought begins to span thee.†   (source)
  • Waiting in gloom, protected by frost, The dirt receding before my prophetical screams, I underlying causes to balance them at last, My knowledge my live parts, it keeping tally with the meaning of all things, Happiness, (which whoever hears me let him or her set out in search of this day.†   (source)
  • Is humanity forming en-masse? for lo, tyrants tremble, crowns grow dim, The earth, restive, confronts a new era, perhaps a general divine war, No one knows what will happen next, such portents fill the days and nights; Years prophetical! the space ahead as I walk, as I vainly try to pierce it, is full of phantoms, Unborn deeds, things soon to be, project their shapes around me, This incredible rush and heat, this strange ecstatic fever of dreams O years!†   (source)
  • Listen and I'll convince thee that no man Hath scot or lot in the prophetic art.†   (source)
  • O my prophetic soul!†   (source)
  • …the pains and labour that some learned men have taken, to confute the story of the witch of Endor, and the appearance of an old man personating Samuel, cannot make such apparitions inconsistent with nature or religion; and it is plain, that it was either a good or bad spirit, that prophetically told the unfortunate king what should happen the next day; for, said the spirit, _The Lord will deliver thee into the hands of the Philistines; and to-morrow shalt thou and thy sons be with me.†   (source)
  • 'tis true: there's magic in the web of it: A sibyl, that had number'd in the world The sun to course two hundred compasses, In her prophetic fury sew'd the work; The worms were hallow'd that did breed the silk; And it was dy'd in mummy which the skillful Conserv'd of maiden's hearts.†   (source)
  • There is a place (If ancient and prophetic fame in Heaven Err not)—another World, the happy seat Of some new race, called Man, about this time To be created like to us, though less In power and excellence, but favoured more Of him who rules above; so was his will Pronounced among the Gods, and by an oath That shook Heaven's whole circumference confirmed.†   (source)
  • Indeed, I am sorry to say there was too much reason for this conjecture; the lad having from his earliest years discovered a propensity to many vices, and especially to one which hath as direct a tendency as any other to that fate which we have just now observed to have been prophetically denounced against him: he had been already convicted of three robberies, viz.†   (source)
  • Say from whence You owe this strange intelligence? or why Upon this blasted heath you stop our way With such prophetic greeting?†   (source)
  • What change of circumstances, time, and a fuller population of our country may produce, requires a prophetic spirit to declare, which makes no part of my pretensions.†   (source)
  • Thy place in Council thou hast rudely lost, Which by thy younger brother is supplied; And art almost an alien to the hearts Of all the Court and princes of my blood: The hope and expectation of thy time Is ruin'd; and the soul of every man Prophetically does forethink thy fall.†   (source)
  • Arriv'd at Cumae, when you view the flood Of black Avernus, and the sounding wood, The mad prophetic Sibyl you shall find, Dark in a cave, and on a rock reclin'd.†   (source)
  • If my soul prophetic err not, if my wisdom aught avail, Thee, Cithaeron, I shall hail, As the nurse and foster-mother of our Oedipus shall greet Ere tomorrow's full moon rises, and exalt thee as is meet.†   (source)
  • But O! commit not thy prophetic mind To flitting leaves, the sport of ev'ry wind, Lest they disperse in air our empty fate; Write not, but, what the pow'rs ordain, relate."†   (source)
  • Dymas and Hypanis by moonlight knew My motions and my mien, and to my party drew; With young Coroebus, who by love was led To win renown and fair Cassandra's bed, And lately brought his troops to Priam's aid, Forewarn'd in vain by the prophetic maid.†   (source)
  • " 'Besides, if faith to Helenus be due, And if prophetic Phoebus tell me true, Do not this precept of your friend forget, Which therefore more than once I must repeat: Above the rest, great Juno's name adore; Pay vows to Juno; Juno's aid implore.†   (source)
  • Thus, walking on, he spoke, and shew'd the gate, Since call'd Carmental by the Roman state; Where stood an altar, sacred to the name Of old Carmenta, the prophetic dame, Who to her son foretold th' Aenean race, Sublime in fame, and Rome's imperial place: Then shews the forest, which, in after times, Fierce Romulus for perpetrated crimes A sacred refuge made; with this, the shrine Where Pan below the rock had rites divine: Then tells of Argus' death, his murder'd guest, Whose grave and…†   (source)
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