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  • The killing took place during a lunar cycle known as the ides, fulfilling a prophecy by a local soothsayer.†   (source)
  • TYRONE Then it doesn't take a soothsayer to tell he's probably in the whorehouse.†   (source)
  • That day came, and the soothsayer waited to die and waited some more, but nothing happened.†   (source)
  • Then he turned and stalked out of the Hall of the Soothsayer, his heavy cape flapping behind him.†   (source)
  • The two guards outside the Hall of the Soothsayer had been easy enough to deal with.†   (source)
  • The only ways to leave the Hall of the Soothsayer are by swearing loyalty to me or by dying.†   (source)
  • She had no name other than the title Soothsayer, and certain stories lead me to believe she was neither elf nor dwarf but something else entirely.†   (source)
  • The soldiers uttered exclamations of dismay when they entered the Hall of the Soothsayer and saw what she had done to her jailer.†   (source)
  • The first illusion had been of another woman, Rialla, who joined her in the Hall of the Soothsayer as a fellow prisoner.†   (source)
  • "You promised you would not lie to me while I was in the Hall ofthe Soothsayer!" she had shouted into the air.†   (source)
  • If eight years had elapsed, he might not remember the promise he made to her so long ago in the Hall of the Soothsayer.†   (source)
  • When her eyes cleared, she found herself standing in the Hall of the Soothsayer, looking at herself lying strapped to the ash-colored slab.†   (source)
  • Whosoever rests upon that hard block of stone becomes the latest soothsayer, and though many have found that role difficult to accept, in the end, none have refused.†   (source)
  • His opinion of her increased tremendously upon hearing her account of her ordeal in the Hall of the Soothsayer, as did his regard for Murtagh, of whom Nasuada spoke not a word thereafter.†   (source)
  • Several hours after her first, agonizing audience with King Galbatorix—when she had at long last fallen into a shallow, troubled sleep—Murtagh had come alone to the Hall of the Soothsayer, bleary-eyed and smelling of drink.†   (source)
  • Be that as it may, during her residency, this chamber came to be called, as you might expect, the Hall of the Soothsayer, and so it still is today—only now you are the soothsayer, Nasuada, daughter of Ajihad.†   (source)
  • The Hall of the Soothsayer.†   (source)
  • I do not believe in ogres, nor soothsayers, nor in the supernatural things.†   (source)
  • I'm only trying to gather together what a city-bred man knew of eagles altogether, and it's curious: the eagle of money, the high-flying eagles of Bombay, the NRA eagle with its gear and lightnings, the bird of Jupiter and of nations, of republics as well as of Caesar, of legions and soothsayers, Colonel Julian the Black Eagle of Harlem; also the ravens of Noah and Elijah, which may well have been eagles; the lone eagle, animal president.†   (source)
  • …the fluid cradle of events (time) which she had acquired or cultivated by listening beyond closed doors not to what she heard there but by becoming supine and receptive, incapable of either discrimination or opinion or incredulity, to the pre-fever's temperature of disaster which makes soothsayers and sometimes makes them right, of the future catastrophe in which the ogre-face of her childhood would apparently vanish so completely that she would agree to marry the late owner of it.†   (source)
  • As a result copies of predictions attributed to soothsayers or saints of the Catholic Church circulated freely from hand to hand.†   (source)
  • 'O thou young soothsayer, if the gift abides with thee at all seasons, I have a red-spotted cow.†   (source)
  • I rail at the theistic credulity of Voltaire, the amoristic superstition of Shelley, the revival of tribal soothsaying and idolatrous rites which Huxley called Science and mistook for an advance on the Pentateuch, no less than at the welter of ecclesiastical and professional humbug which saves the face of the stupid system of violence and robbery which we call Law and Industry.†   (source)
  • The soothsayers practise it.†   (source)
  • I was thinking of the soothsayer who warned Caius Julius against the Ides of March, and fancied him looking for the omens of evil which his master despised in the entrails of a chicken.†   (source)
  • The magician's scorn was stirred, and he said: "Lo, I have seen many wonderful soothsayers and prophets and magicians in my life days, but none before that could sit idle and see to the heart of things with never an incantation to help."†   (source)
  • But her mother kissed her more warmly and went away enchanted with the good fortune which the soothsayers had foretold for her Agnes.†   (source)
  • Then I knew that not by wisdom do poets write poetry, but by a sort of genius and inspiration; they are like diviners or soothsayers who also say many fine things, but do not understand the meaning of them.†   (source)
  • A soothsayer bids you beware the Ides of March.   (source)
    soothsayer = someone who is supposed to have the super-natural ability to tell what will happen in the future
  • Here he ponders things that were not: what Caesar would have lived to do had he believed the soothsayer: what might have been: possibilities of the possible as possible: things not known: what name Achilles bore when he lived among women.†   (source)
  • where's the soothsayer that you praised so to the queen?†   (source)
  • Eighth Circle: fourth pit: Diviners, Soothsayers, and Magicians.†   (source)
  • Get thee gone: Say to Ventidius I would speak with him:— [Exit SOOTHSAYER.†   (source)
  • Eighth Circle: fourth pit: diviners, soothsayers, and magicians.†   (source)
  • [A crowd of people in the street leading to the Capitol, among them Artemidorus and the Soothsayer.†   (source)
  • [Enter CHARMIAN, IRAS, ALEXAS, and a Soothsayer.†   (source)
  • Go, you wild bedfellow, you cannot soothsay.†   (source)
  • Old man, ye all let fly at me your shafts Like anchors at a target; yea, ye set Your soothsayer on me.†   (source)
  • [Enter, in procession, with music, Caesar; Antony, for the course; Calpurnia, Portia, Decius, Cicero, Brutus, Cassius, and Casca; a great crowd following, among them a Soothsayer.†   (source)
  • [1] The Theban soothsayer.†   (source)
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