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We prayed for divine guidance.
divine = from God
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Her pies are divine.
divine = wonderful
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The King claimed a divine right.
divine = coming from God
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I imagined how I would describe my change, my divine transformation, what words of gratitude I would shout.
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divine = wonderful; or coming from God
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His words are divine messages, which you are free and independent to interpret.
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divine = coming from God
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If every action in the universe that we thought was random actually conformed to a rational pattern, Dad said, that implied the existence of a divine creator, and he was beginning to rethink his atheistic creed.
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divine = God-like
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When he thought of his history, what resonated with him now was not all that he had suffered but the divine love that he believed had intervened to save him.
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divine = coming from God
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I wish he was mine, he's really divine,
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divine = wonderful
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it occurred to them for the first time in their lives that what's divine can come in dark skin.
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divine = coming from God
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On it was written the third verse of America, the Beautiful:
America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness
And every gain divine. (source)divine = wonderful (or coming from God)
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A demigod, his kind were called, mortal themselves but blessed by their divine parentage.
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divine = coming from a god
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for everything has a trace of the divine in it.
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divine = coming from the gods; or god-like
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Kriss, isn't this divine?
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divine = wonderful
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...that is forbidden by the most ancient of divine laws.
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divine = related to the gods
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"Yes, um, I heard Spencer Tracy's supposed to be divine," I say.
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divine = wonderful
- She ran, leaving Edith and Lorina to make their own way home, leaving the Reverend Dodgson--who considered children to be spirits fresh from God's hands, their smiles divine, and who thought there could be no greater endeavor than devoting all of his powers to a task for which the only reward was a child's whispered thanks and the airy touch of her pure lips-shaken, unsure of what had just happened. (source)
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An hour ago she had declined to go to Meeting, saying airily that she and her grandfather had seldom attended divine service, except for the Christmas Mass.
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divine = related to God
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it creates a brightness that shines far beyond our normal vision and then a splendid tunnel appears that shows us the way that we forgot when we were born and calls us to recover our lost divine origin.
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divine = wonderful; or coming from God
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The Fuhrer owes his life to "Divine Providence": he escaped, unfortunately, with only a few minor burns and scratches.
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divine = coming from God
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We will not listen to the divine commandment: 'Love one another'.
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divine = wonderful; or coming from God
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There is no law, human or divine, that this man has not ignored.
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divine = from God
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Suddenly I realized that up until that point, I'd been toying with the idea that maybe Colton had had some sort of divine visitation.
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divine = god-like or coming from God
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A naturalistic scientist will exclusively rely on natural phenomena—not on either rationalistic suppositions or any form of divine revelation.
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divine = from God
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Where is the divine Mercy?
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divine = coming from God
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It wasn't the divinity from the foreman's wife that made him sick.
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divinity = a soft white candy
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"You dance divinely, my dear Ida," I said.
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divinely = wonderfully
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Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters.
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divine = wonderful; or god-like
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The events of a Little League baseball game in Louisville, Kentucky should hardly have merited divine attention, but just as the umpire was about to call the game in Biloxi's favor, an angel's voice interceded.
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divine = coming from God
- ready for the responsibility that has been thrust upon us by divine Providence (source)
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what she heard wasn't "Holy Spirit, Truth Divine."
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divine = wonderful; or coming from God
- ...made it probable that it was nothing less than divine intervention by the Almighty on behalf of the cause. (source)
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Tony's point, obviously, was that there was a divine purpose to Clay's life...
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divine = coming from God
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He recited from Norman Vincent Peale, " 'I believe I am always divinely guided. I believe I will always take the right turn of the road.' "
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divinely = of God
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He had suffered boredom and anxiety, and even revulsion, but no sense of sin from the bestial crimes he had been party to, nor had he felt that in sending thousands of the wretched innocent to oblivion he had transgressed against divine law.
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divine = coming from God
- but that was the age of the "divine right of the common man." (source)
- But you do not believe this is divine law. (source)
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willingness to listen to the divine voice in his own heart,
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divine = wonderful or god-like or coming from gods
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But certainly a town like this could not occur without divine intervention.
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divine = coming from God
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Everywhere there is the same pyramidal structure, the same worship of semi-divine leader, the same economy existing by and for continuous warfare.
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divine = god-like
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He had decided to live there because the view was so beautiful, because, from his vantage point, he seemed to be looking out on to the incarnation of a divine being.
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divine = wonderful or god-like
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"I'll tell you God's truth." His right hand suddenly ordered divine retribution to stand by.
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divine = coming from a god
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For some hours he sat there in the sun, and whether it was the warmth of it, or the sight of the wide plain beneath stretching away to blue and distant mountains, or the mere passage of time, or the divine providence for the soul that is distressed, he could not say; but there was some rising of the spirit, some lifting of the fear.
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divine = wonderful; or coming from God
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Mrs. Tony's ecstasy was divine.
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divine = wonderful
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he realized that he was an attractive quantity to women, and that the fact of a woman caring for him and wanting to live with him was not simply a divine miracle.
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divine = coming from God
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But what divine Spanish he speaks and what exquisite things he says in it!
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divine = wonderful
- It is a divine name. (source)
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Divinity in every careless gesture
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divinity = something that is wonderful
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He found the most divine little way to keep me quiet while she went off.
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divine = wonderful
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There is no place for comparison between the two friendships; the one is earthly, the other divine.
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divine = coming from God
- The other eminent characters by whom the chief ruler was surrounded were distinguished by a dignity of mien, belonging to a period when the forms of authority were felt to possess the sacredness of Divine institutions. (source)
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For Mercy has a human heart,
Pity a human face;
And Love, the human form divine; (source)divine = wonderful or god-like
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There is a divine right in Louis XVI.
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divine = coming from God
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those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him
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divine = God-like
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What a divine day!
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divine = wonderful
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Edmund might, in the common phrase, do the duty of Thornton, that is, he might read prayers and preach, without giving up Mansfield Park: he might ride over every Sunday, to a house nominally inhabited, and go through divine service; he might be the clergyman of Thornton Lacey every seventh day, for three or four hours, if that would content him.
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divine = related to God
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the protection of divine Providence
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divine = coming from God
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Gilgamesh shouted, "By the life of Ninsun my mother and divine Lugulbanda my father, ..."
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divine = or god-like
- Christopher, a graduate of Harvard Divinity School, was a poet, a philosopher, and a Unitarian minister, although he earned his keep as a bureaucrat in the California penal system.† (source)
- He is a student of divinity.† (source)
- A shrine in the orchard would be nice, but I realize you're going to be busy handling the kennel and giving lectures on my divinity, so I won't insist on that."† (source)
- What sort of Divinity, Emile?† (source)
- You're saying Jesus' divinity was the result of a vote?† (source)
- We each bought a sack of Mrs. Judge Taylor's homemade divinity.† (source)
- Only later Wing went to divinity school, thanks to China Mary, and Luke went to the county jail for selling stolen car stereos.† (source)
- For some reason, he felt a glimmer of possibility, almost as if this idea had been divinely inspired.† (source)
- The explanation told by the Lunars was that their queen's beauty was a gift not to be seen by undeserving Earthens, but Kai had heard that in reality the queen's\ glamour—her ability to make people see her as divinely beautiful by manipulating their brain waves—could not translate over the netscreens, therefore she never allowed herself to be seen over them.† (source)
- Mr. O'Dea's eyes roll in his head when he tells us that with Confirmation we will become part of Divinity.† (source)
- Sometimes people who believe deeply in Christ's divinity exhibit bleeding marks on their hands and feet during the Holy Week.† (source)
- He quit drinking beer and enrolled at the Shelton Bible College and got his divinity degree from there in 1953.† (source)
- We have offended all the oldest divinities, in every thinkable way.† (source)
- The river is shorn of grandeur, grace, and divinity.† (source)
- In seconds he'd told them he was once a divinity student, was living in Ohio and heading for the priesthood, when he discovered computers.† (source)
- In the meantime the soul restores to itself some of the divinity lost at birth.† (source)
- With a desultory nod of his bored and sleepy head, the Level Crossing Divinity conjured up beggars with bandages, men with trays selling pieces of fresh coconut, parippu vadas on banana leaves.† (source)
- "Look at this child," he says, taking in Caroline as if her existence is an act of divinity "I can't believe that you can create a little person like that.† (source)
- On the actual day, a full-page photograph of Lina appeared in the papers and beneath it was a poem written by Trujillo himself> She was born a queen, not by dynastic right, but by the right of beauty whom divinity sends to the world only rarely.† (source)
- Newborns reminded her of tiny Buddhas, faces full of divinity.† (source)
- Twelve miles of walking after a week's toil in the mill was a very small offering to put before so worshipful a divinity.† (source)
- Contemplating our own divinity.† (source)
- It has been much harder for pious Muslims to ignore unpleasant and antiquated passages in the Koran, because it is believed to be not just divinely inspired but literally the word of God.† (source)
- But despite the smooth surfaces of his parents' unquestioned faith, Mortenson hadn't yet made up his mind about the nature of divinity.† (source)
- It was a living manifestation of divinity, and it was what allowed passage through to the Archipelago.† (source)
- Smith plans to become a minister in the United Methodist Church after finishing a master of divinity degree at Atlanta's Emory University.† (source)
- Every winter, we had finger sandwiches, punch and divinity candy at their house on Christmas Eve.† (source)
- In this he was not singular…… I believe there was not a soul on board who was wholly thoughtless of a Divinity.† (source)
- It is, in the imagination of combat's fans, the divinely listless loveplay that follows the orgasm of victory.† (source)
- We had come to a place where a twenty-year-old boy roared out his own divinity, and the Bible was put to the sword and the torch to illustrate the preeminence of discipline.† (source)
- Real or no, this gentleman caller dropped in from out of the blue, so I'll just go ahead and make believe he was divinely inspired to bring a healthy dose of light into Greta's life.† (source)
- The document containing the charges against Socrates survived until at least the second century C.E. Diogenes Laertius reports the charges as recorded in the now-lost document: This indictment and affidavit is sworn by Meletus, the son of Meletus of Pitthos, against Socrates, the son of Sophroniscus of Alopece: Socrates is guilty of refusing to recognize the gods recognized by the state, and of introducing new divinities.† (source)
- Within a few days, all mankind's multitudinous messiahs had lost their divinity.† (source)
- This social organization had been in place so long it seemed to have been divinely ordained.† (source)
- It came into his mind that a man must have a purpose--some single, undeviating, divinely inexorable purpose.† (source)
- You talk as if we desire perpetually this burden of godhood, as if we seek to maintain a dark age that we may know forever the wearisome condition of our enforced divinity!† (source)
- Webster, wrote one of his intimate friends, was "a compound of strength and weakness, dust and divinity," or in Emerson's words "a great man with a small ambition."† (source)
- We've been catching everybody divinely flagrante.† (source)
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it divides the individual, separating the diabolical in him from the divine.
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divine = wonderful; or god-like
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It was a divine spring, and the season contributed greatly to my convalescence.
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divine = wonderful
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...he beheld an expression of divine gratitude and ecstasy...
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divine = splendid or wonderful
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Will you smile at the enthusiasm I express concerning this divine wanderer?
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divine = wonderful
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chosen by divine design
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divine = having come from God
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She claims she can divine the location of underground water.
divine = predict or discover something supernaturally (as if by magic)
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She claims she can divine the future with a crystal ball.
divine = predict
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It's like divining for water.
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divining = finding in a supernatural way
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These stones were the only form of divination.
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divination = magical discovery
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After the death of Ekwefi's second child, Okonkwo had gone to a medicine man, who was also a diviner of the Afa Oracle, to enquire what was amiss.
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diviner = someone who practices the art of learning of the future through supernatural means
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She took back the divining bone.
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divining = used to discover something supernaturally (as if by magic)
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In the second week of January, Felicia visits a santero known for his grace and power in reading the divining shells.
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divining = used to predict or discover something supernaturally (as if by magic)
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It cannot be that it has gone, the yearning that made our blood unquiet, the unknown, the perplexing, the oncoming things, the thousand faces of the future, the melodies from dreams and from books, the whispers and divinations of women; it cannot be that this has vanished in bombardment, in despair, in brothels.
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divinations = predictions
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This vampire which is amongst us is of himself so strong in person as twenty men, he is of cunning more than mortal, for his cunning be the growth of ages, he have still the aids of necromancy, which is, as his etymology imply, the divination by the dead, and all the dead that he can come nigh to are for him at command; he is brute, and more than brute; he is devil in callous, and the heart of him is not; he can, within his range, direct the elements, the storm, the fog, the thunder;…
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divination = supernatural prediction
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...holding his furled umbrella a span or two from him like a divining rod.
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divining = used to discover something supernaturally
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In other bills he had a lot of other names and done other wonderful things, like finding water and gold with a "divining-rod," "dissipating witch spells," and so on.
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divining = used to discover something supernaturally (as if by magic)
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- Some people don't believe in diviners.† (source)
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Perfect deliberation, divination, and desperation
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divination = the act of predicting something by magic
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Dream interpretation is a most important means of divining the future
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divining = predicting something by magic
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we have almost finished our work on planetary divination.
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divination = to predict something by magic
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Divination is one of the most imprecise branches of magic. ... True Seers are very rare,
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divination = to predict or discover something supernaturally
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Without doubt some practical person had come along and mended the leak, and then had come up and told the abbot he had discovered by divination that if the sinful bath were destroyed the well would flow again.
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divination = the act of predicting or discover something supernaturally (as if by magic)
- The diviners of the bones used a heated nail to crack the bone.† (source)
- I'm sure the more successful diviners were skilled at saying what the emperors wanted to hear.† (source)
- I vowed that from here on I would use diviners only to find propitious dates.† (source)
- I had several diviners looking throughout the countryside for someone I could match to my niece.† (source)
- I will go further, and show what master diviners ye are!† (source)
- The Chaldeans already knew about it, too—the Chaldeans, if you please, that ancient tribe of Semitic or Arabic magicians, highly trained astrologists and diviners.† (source)
- Miss Ingram placed herself at her leader's right hand; the other diviners filled the chairs on each side of him and her.† (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)
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It's never too early to think about the future, so I'd recommend Divination.
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divination = to predict something by magic
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[Proteus (the Old Man of the Sea) prophesying to Menelaus]
But about your own destiny, Menelaus,
dear to Zeus, it's not for you to die
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So he divined and down the breaking surf he dove (source)divined = to predict the future supernaturally (as if by magic)
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The divination of my arts shall tell.
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divination = the act of predicting or discover something supernaturally (as if by magic)
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I have an ill-divining soul!
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divining = predicting something by magic
- Eighth Circle: fourth pit: Diviners, Soothsayers, and Magicians.† (source)
- Eighth Circle: fourth pit: diviners, soothsayers, and magicians.† (source)
- …sing her adventures after her contemptible surrender (which probably were not over and above creditable), dropped her where he says: How she received the sceptre of Cathay, Some bard of defter quill may sing some day; and this was no doubt a kind of prophecy, for poets are also called vates, that is to say diviners; and its truth was made plain; for since then a famous Andalusian poet has lamented and sung her tears, and another famous and rare poet, a Castilian, has sung her beauty.† (source)
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She wouldn't talk about it, but I was able to divine that the project isn't going well.
divine = discover
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They are trying to divine the outcome of next year's election.
divine = discover or predict
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The defense had divined what they could from the notes but...
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divined = discovered
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Hadn't her last note spelled it out, so plainly that an innocent six-year-old could have divined its meaning, and hadn't I been negligent, feloniously so, in failing to hurry after her immediately rather than taking that brainless bus ride across the Potomac?
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divined = discovered (figured out)
- Syme, however, had divined what he was about to say. (source)
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She would divine his attitude at once and...
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divine = discover (figure out)
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...whatever he had heard or divined in childhood of the strange and terrible.
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divined = learned through intuition or reflection
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...he would divine the truth in the flash of an eye.
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divine = discover through intuition
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Mrs. Tilley gave amazed attention to all this, but Sylvia still watched the toad, not divining, as she might have done at some calmer time, that the creature wished to get to its hole under the door-step, and was much hindered by the unusual spectators at that hour of the evening.
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divining = discovering something
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As you have divined, sir, we are not mad; neither are we violent or bloodthirsty.
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divined = discovered
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...she said, glad that he had divined this without her being obliged to express it.
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divined = discovered (figured out)
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he had divined from Dorothea's glance at her husband that there was some alarm in her mind.
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divined = discovered
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One still has time before one to divine.
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divine = discover something through intuition or reflection
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While he was thinking one thing in his brain, I was endeavoring to divine his thought in mine.
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divine = discover
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This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining
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divining = trying to discover through reflection (thinking)
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The world was to me a secret which I desired to divine.
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divine = discover
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Finally, by deduction I pegged you for a Polack, excuse me, divined that you were of Polish extraction.
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divined = discovered
- I removed the receiver from my ear and turned to Sophie, who, with mouth agape, had clearly divined what it was that Nathan had been raging about. (source)
- Despite her eagerness and all her past abandon—I instinctively divined—she wanted to be cosseted and flattered and seduced and entertained like any woman, and this was fine with me, since Nature had clearly designed such a scheme to enhance man's delight as well. (source)
- Himmler, whose own biography reveals him to be (whatever else) a superlative judge of assassins, surely divined in Hoss a man cut out for the important line of work he had in mind, for the next sixteen years of Hoss's life were spent either directly as Commandant of concentration camps or in upper-echelon jobs connected with their administration. (source)
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Often the soul is ripened into fuller goodness while age has spread an ugly film, so that mere glances can never divine the preciousness of the fruit.
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divine = discover
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And with all speed post with him toward the north,
To shun the danger that his soul divines. (source)divines = to discover something through intuition or reflection
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Something from Cyprus, as I may divine:
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divine = guess (discover through intuition or reflection)
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For I no sooner in my heart divined,
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divined = discovered through intuition
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- Our two young folks can't go on posing as divine messengers.† (source)
- Some things were certain—they had already happened—but the future could not be divined.† (source)
- She said, "That's divine."† (source)
- The ultimate goal of the Adventists is to ask our Lord to carry out this divine punishment: the destruction of all humankind.† (source)
- Images played on TV of the Iranian president claiming that the East Coast storms, power failures, and bird flu outbreaks were the divine hand of God, striking down evil America.† (source)
- To what end, he wondered, had the Divine created the stars in heaven to fill a man with feelings of inspiration one day and insignificance the next?† (source)
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O divine Master,
Grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled as to console;
To be understood, as to understand;
To be loved, as to love.
Francis of Assisi† (source)
- To learn anything more about the quarter, I would have to cast a series of high-level divination spells on it.† (source)
- The divining rod in my mind dipped sharply and a spring gushed water when I remembered that I was on a genuine, regulation lifeboat and that such a lifeboat was surely outfitted with supplies.† (source)
- Divine intervention, Aringarosa had called it.† (source)
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- Professor Trelawney was their Divination teacher at Hogwarts.† (source)
- There was a good deal of talk, for example, about the divine intervention allegedly visited upon George Mercer III.† (source)
- Whenever divine or monstrous elements mix with the mortal world, they generate Mist, which obscures the vision of humans.† (source)
- I'd looked to her, waited a split second to divine her reaction to something, then made up my own mind.† (source)
- His behavior in the rooms was remindful of a holy man's search of a cathedral of antiquity—as if he could divine some ancient and also holy intention there.† (source)
- And even if I recognized her strategy, her sneak attack, I was afraid that some unseen speck of truth would fly into my eye, blur what I was seeing and transform him from the divine man I thought he was into someone quite mundane, mortally wounded with tiresome habits and irritating imperfections.† (source)
- "You know, Dr. Davis, your life must be guided by divine intervention," she said.† (source)
- Jack says, as if divining her thoughts.† (source)
- I willed her back, willed that divine impossible, but she wanted out.† (source)
- High school is a divine-right monarchy.† (source)
- Tomorrow, I will divine the words before your eyes.† (source)
- The crowd parted for him and his partner, the most beautiful, most graceful, most divine woman in the room.† (source)
- Divine!† (source)
- Euclid is complete in himself and divine in application.† (source)
- But despite the Sherpas' laughter (to say nothing of their own notoriously libertine habits), they fundamentally disapproved of sex between unmarried couples on the divine flanks of Sagarmatha.† (source)
- You've divined something?† (source)
- I memorize every inch of my family photo, trying to divine its secrets.† (source)
- I mean, all I kept thinking about was how disgusted Lilly sounded during that part in her oral report when she mentioned how Christian monarchs used to consider themselves appointed agents of divine will and thus were responsible not to the people they governed but to God alone, even though my dad hardly ever even goes to church, except when Grandm"re makes him.† (source)
- Somebody in the Divine Placement Service had made a mistake, one she sometimes feared could never be corrected and which only the most innocent bystander could pay for.† (source)
- Throughout the movie, we moved to eat popcorn, shifted to get comfortable, only to end up uncomfortable; an awkward dance of keeping my hands and parts from familiar and unfamiliar areas of Echo's divine body.† (source)
- But unlike tea leaves, crystal balls, or even divining cards, these have true power.† (source)
- Alive one moment, dead the next, because that is how my divided brain divined the world.† (source)
- We were all gods; long-lived if not immortal, well paid if not quite divine.† (source)
- No literary Christ figure can ever be as pure, as perfect, as divine as Jesus Christ.† (source)
- Every day some scientist discovered a new species of frog or waterlily, and that, too, seemed to confirm some divine showman, some celestial inventor putting new toys before us, hidden but hidden poorly, just where we might happen upon them.† (source)
- The base of the antenna contains a few microchips, whose purpose Hiro cannot divine by looking at them.† (source)
- He had mastered necromancy and sorcery, astrology and mathematics, divination and scrying.† (source)
- "There's this apricot-plum smoothie with wildflower honey that's simply divine," said Isabelle, who had appeared with Simon at her side.† (source)
- Rumor had it you could divine your answer by which way the paper left the square.† (source)
- He pivots, grunts and pushes, and by divine intervention, the cart squeezes into the room.† (source)
- "For any woman with a shred of sense, that man is a gift from Divine Providence," said the nun.† (source)
- "Hawat will have divined that we have an agent planted on him," Piter said.† (source)
- Somewhere during that period of time I became acutely aware of an unusual ability—a divine gift, I believe—of extraordinary eye and hand coordination.† (source)
- Forgiveness is divine.† (source)
- Digger looked hard at me, as if divining what I was up against, and added, "Once you name them, it's all over."† (source)
- They formed themselves into the League of the Divine Tempest and attacked an imperial garrison with swords aloft, having fasted for three days.† (source)
- Did he also believe that man has a divine soul?† (source)
- Last night at dinner, Minerva announced that this year she's giving up swimming in our lagoon in exchange for divine help in becoming a lawyer.† (source)
- People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only by divine intervention that they were able to live at all.† (source)
- It's not a thrilling tale of adventure or the kind of fairy-tale romance portrayed in movies, but it felt like divine intervention.† (source)
- "Does 'divine' begin de or di?"† (source)
- The ornateness of it, the mannered swoops and swirls, surprised him-a reaction that the landlady apparently divined, for she said, "Uh-huh.† (source)
- There was a moment at each prenatal exam when Lacy channeled her inner faith healer: laying her hands on the patient's belly and divining, just from the lay of the land, in which direction the baby lay.† (source)
- The old man nodded, knowing that his words carried the force of divine authority.† (source)
- I do not believe that names are destiny or that my father somehow divined my future, but in later years, friends and relatives would ascribe to my birth name the many storms I have both caused and weathered.† (source)
- She began roving her eyes around the bar in a slow wandering arc, then walked straight as a divining rod into the men's restroom.† (source)
- Not to learn it by heart, but to extract the divine essence from it.† (source)
- Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood was not yet on the bestseller lists.† (source)
- These meatballs are divine!† (source)
- He divined in this movement of Johnnie's but an attempt to approach himself, and, as she explained with some particularity, he paid more attention to the girl than to her words.† (source)
- Fireworks: Gold Red Silver Blue Green sprays haze beauty rise eyes high sky heaven stuns Ethan's faze plays designs mind find sight light perfect divine mine inspire desire blessed flow reveal releasing unceasing increasing loveEthan Drove Me Home.† (source)
- There was a longing in many of the eyes he saw, like people truly thought they were being saved by some divine power.† (source)
- Momm is by no means a "hard woman"--she's sweet, even a bit cloying, and is always buying gifts for her friends and praying at the Buddhist altar for divine intervention on their behalf.† (source)
- Talk about divine intervention-meeting the right people at the right time.† (source)
- This is too divine a dream.† (source)
- I experienced an extraordinary sense of belonging, a sense of being in the presence of some divine being.† (source)
- Philadelphia, where Father Divine reigned, wasn't all that far away.† (source)
- Hearts at once human and divine, looming bloodred and out of scale from the open chests of figures who gazed with odd serenity from the large paintings in the Bradleys' household.† (source)
- Oh, Sir P., how divine!† (source)
- He looked DIVINE in his uniform.† (source)
- 'Yes,' she said, divining his thought, 'it is not permitted to speak of it, and Elrond could not do so.† (source)
- We humbly beseech Thee most mercifully to receive these our prayers which we offer unto Thy Divine Majesty; beseeching Thee to inspire continually the universal church with the spirit of truth, unity, and concord: And grant, that all they that do confess Thy holy Name may agree in the truth of Thy holy word, and live in unity and godly love.† (source)
- The ability to see a human life in its entirety, not with any mawkish sorrow but with a thrilling satisfaction in being the end of that life, in having a hand in the divine plan.'† (source)
- Clara realized that that was why none of her infallible methods of divining had worked.† (source)
- We were human divining rods.† (source)
- She led me to the diviner.† (source)
- It was also Lena who invited Anima, knowing full well nothing short of divine intervention could get Amma to set foot through the door of Ravenwood Manor.† (source)
- Following God's will is the career, so attending college, in the view of many witnesses, is a selection of the temporal over the divine.† (source)
- Surgery takes the basic imperative of the medical profession to its outermost border, where the human makes contact with the divine.† (source)
- I could wear that divine Ghost dress which I've never had a chance to wear, and I could put my hair up, and meet lots of amazing people … And then, abruptly, I stop.† (source)
- She'd discovered in herself a talent for manipulative obstetrics, becoming expert at divining just how the baby was hung up in the pelvis.† (source)
- Rabbi Joshua son of Levi teaches us, 'Whoever does not labor in the Torah is said to be under the divine censure.'† (source)
- The third miracle is the most divine of all.† (source)
- Coincidence threatens the divine order of creation and must be explained.† (source)
- "I don't know, Divine."† (source)
- It was an "instance of divine favor, for nothing surely ever came more apropos," Washington wrote immediately to Joseph Reed.† (source)
- It was originally a royal guard, but it developed into a military collective of 6,000 soldiers with a semi-divine status.† (source)
- The rector, furthermore, was not standing mute, but answering my father in the kind of language I had never heard from him: coarse words that he did not learn from the great Divines at Cambridge.† (source)
- The diviner of shells shaved her head as everyone chanted in the language of the Yoruba.† (source)
- No divine intervention.† (source)
- Even Old Jacob had to admit that divine displeasure was in abeyance for the time being.† (source)
- It's unbreakable," she said, as though divining its properties at a touch.† (source)
- "St. John the Divine Crisis Center,"† (source)
- This day shall henceforth be dedicated to your education of all things related to, but not exclusively concerning, this institution of post-secondary, ivy-choked, divine education.† (source)
- Divine.† (source)
- I hold the angel sword in front of me like a divining rod.† (source)
- To love a man for his virtues is paltry and human, it tells you; to love him for his flaws is divine.† (source)
- I saw them Tremble like wet wings of a fowl One day he cast his time-smoothed opele Across the divination board.† (source)
- When I played basketball, I was possessed by a nakedness of spirit, an absolute purity, a divine madness when I was let loose to ramble between the lines.† (source)
- There was some sense of divine right she felt she and everyone else had, even if she had to beg for it or steal it.† (source)
- He agreed with Dr. Gallaudet and others at the Yale'Divinity School that the tribesmen were delivered to America's shores by the Lord God Himself in an act of divine providence so that the full Christianization of Africa might begin in earnest.† (source)
- She looked out of the window and saw the divine revellers singing up the street and a stab of joy went through her heart.† (source)
- There can be no ignoring the divine spread of our strain.† (source)
- You take earthly pleasures and gracefully translate them to the language of the Divine.† (source)
- She was the only one who knew him, she was saying—who divined that he was nowhere near as bad as he pretended to be.† (source)
- There was the divine spark, as my mother used to say.† (source)
- Xenophon indicates that the impiety charge stemmed primarily from the contention of Socrates that he received divine communications (a "voice" or a "sign") directing him to avoid politics and concentrate on his philosophic mission.† (source)
- Is that a question, or a divine pronouncement on your part, Mr. Longfellow?† (source)
- I am not the divine wind of the Kamikaze.† (source)
- The operation was code-named Wrath of God, a phrase chosen by Shamron to give his undertaking the patina of divine sanction.† (source)
- Not to set up some little cozy, holier-than-thou trysting place with some sticky, adorable divine personage who'll take you in his arms and relieve you of all your duties and make all your nasty Weltschmerzen and Professor Tuppers go away and never come back.† (source)
- Love floated above their marriage, unachievable, divine.† (source)
- Three: divine intervention, that is to say, a good turn from above concerning him, cf. children of Israel, or retribution from above concerning me, cf.† (source)
- On their last evening at Fort Repose, after the others were in bed, Mark and Randy had sat here, in this office, peering into the bourbon decanter and the deep anxieties of their hearts, trying to divine the future.† (source)
- These held, if George remembered correctly, some fifteen thousand volumes-almost everything of importance that had ever been published on the nebulous subjects of magic, psychic research, divining, telepathy, and the whole range of elusive phenomena lumped in the category of paraphysics.† (source)
- They simply did not concern her—at least until as his dragooned secretary she began to divine the depth and extent of her father's fiery enthusiasm.† (source)
- If you are right that it is a Divine Avenger, I would say that it smacks of blasphemy to try to tackle it.† (source)
- the divine Miranda† (source)
- We were far beyond believing in Santa Claus, but she insisted on preserving the forms of the childhood myth that these were presents from some divine philanthropist.† (source)
- An early attempt was absolute monarchy, passionately defended as the 'divine right of kings.'† (source)
- I think the mind that could think this story was a curiously divine mind.† (source)
- After divination one acts with the gods.† (source)
- He understood and grasped it not, only felt some idea of it stirring, a distant memory, divine voices.† (source)
- You know everything, you divine everything, Yurochka, you are my strength and my refuge, God forgive me the blasphemy.† (source)
- All of this she had through the painful years divined.† (source)
- It is rather our duty to divine His will.† (source)
- It was when Miss Eckhart was young that she had learned this piece, Cassie divined.† (source)
- I'm having every morsel of this divine party recorded.† (source)
- Out of the goodness of some divine intervention?† (source)
- In fact, all known methods of divining the future suddenly failed.† (source)
- Parvati set off for Divination five minutes later looking slightly crestfallen.† (source)
- Divination, but it's not for another twenty minutes," said Harry.† (source)
- It seemed, however, that he was not the only person in Divination who was in a temper.† (source)
- HARRY: A centaur with profound Divination skills.† (source)
- How did she know your scar hurt in Divination?† (source)
- But why have you not returned to Divination?† (source)
- LuLing had divined it while looking at an oracle in the museum.† (source)
- Even without Divination, she was taking more subjects than anybody else.† (source)
- Wendy was a divining rod for strange disturbances in the earth's atmosphere.† (source)
- 'You can't skive off Divination,' said Hermione severely.† (source)
- Professor — I was in Divination just now, and — er — I fell asleep.† (source)
- Your mother … well, aside from being a brilliant scientist, she had the gift of divination.† (source)
- " 'Sibyll Trelawney, Divination teacher," ' Harry read.† (source)
- "Only failed Divination and History of Magic, and who cares about them?" he said happily to Harry.† (source)
- Even by Harry's low standards in Divination, the exam went very badly.† (source)
- "Shall we get our Divination stuff, then?" said Harry.† (source)
- "I think Divination seems very woolly," she said, searching for her page.† (source)
- Divination was his least favorite subject, apart from Potions.† (source)
- Without Muggle Studies and Divination, I'll be able to have a normal schedule again.† (source)
- 'Hark who's talking, you walked out of Divination, you hate Trelawney!' said Ron indignantly.† (source)
- I'd better go and see Professor Flitwick and say sorry… I'll see you in Divination!† (source)
- Harry's and Ron's last exam was Divination; Hermione's, Muggle Studies.† (source)
- We will be covering the basic methods of Divination this year.† (source)
- Slipping out from beneath the blanket, David strode toward a stack of books on Divination.† (source)
- She is prescient and clairvoyant and somehow divines the thoughts of others.† (source)
- The babalawos consulted the oracles with all their powers of divination.† (source)
- The two divines wore tunics "the color of the men of light," as Marcos called the color yellow.† (source)
- The gae bolga twitched and gave a magnetic pull almost like a divining rod.† (source)
- Omen-watching, divination, has nothing whatever to do with magic.† (source)
- This the old woman above her somehow divined, and she cried: "Yes, honey.† (source)
- Divination is man's attempt to find out what the universe is doing.† (source)
- Harry looked down and saw deep green mountains and lakes, coppery in the sunset. the landscape seemed to grow larger and more detailed as he squinted over the side of the dragon, and he wondered whether it had divined the presence of fresh water by the flashes of reflected sunlight.† (source)
- But I believe Jeremiah guessed about it, for he was a great man for divining what was meant, even when not spoken out loud.† (source)
- Divination?† (source)
- Once I'd placed the quarter in my inventory, I hadn't been able to remove it, so I'd never been able to have any divination or identification spells cast on it.† (source)
- Once upon a time, I could have divined his whereabouts as easily as you might check a Facebook timeline, but now I could only stare at the sky and wonder when a small impish demigod might appear with a bronze dragon and a plate of tacos.† (source)
- You will forgive an old friend for not expressing any great surprise, as the matter was writ large enough between the lines of your letters, and could easily be divined, without any great perspicacity on the reader's part.† (source)
- He poked around in the frozen grass as I loaded up the wood, standing with his face into the wind, wet nose sniffing the icy air as if divining winter's descent.† (source)
- Hermione Granger hates Divination.† (source)
- Later that night, several high-level gunter wizards finished casting a series of divination spells on the castle and announced on the message boards that the shield around the castle was generated by a powerful artifact called the Orb of Osuvox, which could only be operated by a wizard who was ninety-ninth level.† (source)
- Professor McGonagall turned next to Parvati Patil, whose first question was whether Firenze, the handsome centaur, was still teaching Divination.† (source)
- The coffinmaker went to a fortune-teller in Immortal Heart, a man who walked about the village with a divining stick.† (source)
- A book on Divination.† (source)
- "No," said Dumbledore, "Divination is turning out to be much more trouble than I could have foreseen, never having studied the subject myself.† (source)
- "See you at dinner!" said Hermione, and she set off for Arithmancy, while Harry and Ron headed toward North Tower, and Divination.† (source)
- The knowledge made him even less eager to find himself in her company, thankfully, this year he would be dropping Divination.† (source)
- Not, of course, that I believe examination passes or failures are of the remotest importance when it comes to the sacred art of divination.† (source)
- Harry was surprised to see the Divination teacher, Professor Trelawney, sitting on Hagrid's other side; she rarely left her tower room, and he had never seen her at the start-of-term feast before.† (source)
- You see, I have already found us a new Divination teacher, and he will prefer lodgings on the ground floor.† (source)
- And unless I'm very much mistaken, Rita was perched on the windowsill of the Divination class the day your scar hurt.† (source)
- Every single Divination and Care of Magical Creatures lesson was now conducted in the presence of Umbridge and her clipboard.† (source)
- He forced down some dinner after Divination, then returned to the empty classroom with Hermione, using the Invisibility Cloak to avoid the teachers.† (source)
- He questioned me … I must confess that, at first, I thought he seemed ill-disposed towards Divination … and I remember I was starting to feel a little odd, I had not eaten much that day … but then …'† (source)
- It was all right: He had always known that he would fail Divination, and he had had no chance of passing History of Magic, given that he had collapsed halfway through the examination, but he had passed everything else!† (source)
- They had to wait until evening for their practical Astronomy; the afternoon was devoted instead to Divination.† (source)
- Professor Dumbledore — yesterday, when I was having my Divination exam, Professor Trelawney went very — very strange.† (source)
- "Herbology with the Hufflepuffs and Care of Magical Creatures… damn it, we're still with the Slytherins…… " "Double Divination this afternoon," Harry groaned, looking down.† (source)
- Harry and Ron were deeply amused when Professor Trelawney told them that they had received top marks for their homework in their next Divination class.† (source)
- "Please, Professor, we've just had our first Divination class, and we were reading the tea leaves, and —"† (source)
- 'Speaking of centaurs,' said Hermione, when she had recovered a little, 'who's Divination teacher now?† (source)
- "He and Professor Trelawney are dividing classes between them this year," said Professor McGonagall, a hint of disapproval in her voice; it was common knowledge that she despised the subject of Divination.† (source)
- Harry thoroughly enjoyed double Divination that afternoon; they were still doing star charts and predictions, but now that he and Ron were friends once more, the whole thing seemed very funny again.† (source)
- Harry looked down the list and found that he was expected in Professor McGonagall's office at half past two on Monday, which would mean missing most of Divination.† (source)
- If being good at Divination means I have to pretend to see death omens in a lump of tea leaves, I'm not sure I'll be studying it much longer!† (source)
- Ordinary Wizarding Level Results Pass Grades: Outstanding (O) Exceeds Expectations (E) Acceptable (A) Fail Grades: Poor (P) Dreadful (D) Troll (T) Harry James Potter has achieved: Astronomy A Care of Magical Creatures E Charms E Defense Against the Dark Arts O Divination P Herbology E History of Magic D Potions E Transfiguration E Harry read the parchment through several times, his breathing becoming easier with each reading.† (source)
- On Monday last, midway through a Divination lesson, your Daily Prophet reporter witnessed Potter storming from the class, claiming that his scar was hurting too badly to continue studying.† (source)
- Those are my books for Arithmancy, Care of Magical Creatures, Divination, the Study of Ancient Runes, Muggle Studies —† (source)
- — CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN — The Centaur and the Sneak Til bet you wish you hadn't given up Divination now, don't you, Hermione?' asked Parvati, smirking.† (source)
- There was too much truth in this to ignore, so half an hour later Harry took his seat in the hot, overperfumed atmosphere of the Divination classroom, feeling angry at everybody.† (source)
- This evening, after Divination.† (source)
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