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divine as in: to forgive is divine
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Her pies are divine.
divine = wonderful
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We prayed for divine guidance.
divine = from God
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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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I wish he was mine, he's really divine,
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divine = wonderful
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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
- it occurred to them for the first time in their lives that what's divine can come in dark skin. (source)
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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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...that is forbidden by the most ancient of divine laws.
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divine = related to the gods
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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
- "Yes, um, I heard Spencer Tracy's supposed to be divine," I say. (source)
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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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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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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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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.
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divine = wonderful
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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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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
- There is no law, human or divine, that this man has not ignored. (source)
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"You dance divinely, my dear Ida," I said.
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divinely = wonderfully
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ready for the responsibility that has been thrust upon us by divine Providence
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divine = coming from God
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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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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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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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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
- I believe in conscience, not as something implanted by divine act, but as something learned from infancy, from the tradition and society which has bred us. (source)
- but that was the age of the "divine right of the common man." (source)
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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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But you do not believe this is divine law.
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divine = coming from God
- 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. (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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Which would you rather be if you had the choice—divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?
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divinely = wonderfully
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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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It is a divine name.
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divine = wonderful
- But what divine Spanish he speaks and what exquisite things he says in it! (source)
- He found the most divine little way to keep me quiet while she went off. (source)
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Divinity in every careless gesture
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divinity = something that is 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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The present season was indeed divine; the flowers of spring bloomed in the hedges, while those of summer were already in bud.
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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)
- Their pinks, greens, and golds shimmered as if it were the sole purpose of a religion to cheer its Divinity.† (source)
- You're saying Jesus' divinity was the result of a vote?† (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)
- Newborns reminded her of tiny Buddhas, faces full of divinity.† (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)
- Mr. O'Dea's eyes roll in his head when he tells us that with Confirmation we will become part of Divinity.† (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)
- 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)
- 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)
- He quit drinking beer and enrolled at the Shelton Bible College and got his divinity degree from there in 1953.† (source)
- The river is shorn of grandeur, grace, and divinity.† (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)
- We have offended all the oldest divinities, in every thinkable way.† (source)
- Sometimes people who believe deeply in Christ's divinity exhibit bleeding marks on their hands and feet during the Holy Week.† (source)
- Contemplating our own divinity.† (source)
- In the meantime the soul restores to itself some of the divinity lost at birth.† (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)
- Not to learn it by heart but to discover within the very essence 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)
- It is, in the imagination of combat's fans, the divinely listless loveplay that follows the orgasm of victory.† (source)
- Every winter, we had finger sandwiches, punch and divinity candy at their house on Christmas Eve.† (source)
- Divinity.† (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 was a living manifestation of divinity, and it was what allowed passage through to the Archipelago.† (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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- It came into his mind that a man must have a purpose—some single, undeviating, divinely inexorable purpose.† (source)
- Within a few days, all mankind's multitudinous messiahs had lost their 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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Have you ever imagined what it must feel like to be divinely beautiful?
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divinely = wonderfully
- Well, whatever it was it must have been something nice because she was divinely beautiful. (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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...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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divine as in: divined from tea leaves
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She claims she can divine the future with a crystal ball.
divine = predict
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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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To learn anything more about the quarter, I would have to cast a series of high-level divination spells on it.
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divination = magical discovery
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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)
- 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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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.
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divination = magical discovery
- 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)
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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)
- I'm sure the more successful diviners were skilled at saying what the emperors wanted to hear.† (source)
- The diviners of the bones used a heated nail to crack the bone.† (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)
- The great poet who sang her beauty, the famous Ariosto, not caring to 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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divine as in: divined through intuition
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They are trying to divine the outcome of next year's election.
divine = discover or predict
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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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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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What a starved, unloved life she had had—a life of drudgery and poverty and neglect; for Marilla was shrewd enough to read between the lines of Anne's history and divine the truth.
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divine = discover
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She would divine his attitude at once and...
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divine = discover (figure out)
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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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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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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
- Some things were certain—they had already happened—but the future could not be divined.† (source)
- 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)
- You've divined something?† (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)
- Alive one moment, dead the next, because that is how my divided brain divined the world.† (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)
- "Hawat will have divined that we have an agent planted on him," Piter said.† (source)
- LuLing had divined it while looking at an oracle in the museum.† (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)
- 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)
- With several more tosses, Max divined that there were a variety of objects situated upon some sort of island in the pool.† (source)
- With Dawson, she was reminded of what it was like to have her thoughts divined before she uttered them.† (source)
- Whether it was just my own body or an effect divined by Madame Stravinski, I swear to your pages that the temperature of the room did drop substantially.† (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 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)
- It is told that Pannalal the Sage, having sharpened his mind with meditation and divers asceticisms, had divined the operation of the lock and entered Hellwell, spending a day and a night beneath the mountain.† (source)
- He divined every change in the house, in the angle of the doors, in the height of the fires, and whether the logs had been stirred by a boot or had only fallen in an empty room.† (source)
- All of this she had through the painful years divined.† (source)
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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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...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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Francois was surprised, too, when they shot out in a tangle from the disrupted nest and he divined the cause of the trouble.
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divined = discovered
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When she opened them again it was to behold Diana coming through the gate that led into the Barry field and looking so important that Anne instantly divined there was news to be told.
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divined = guessed
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On the other hand, possibly because he divined in Buck a dangerous rival, Spitz never lost an opportunity of showing his teeth.
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divined = predicted
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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
- This the old woman above her somehow divined, and she cried: "Yes, honey.† (source)
- It was when Miss Eckhart was young that she had learned this piece, Cassie divined.† (source)
- While Max did not know all the intricacies of hag culture, he had divined that it was deeply hierarchical and that the grandeur of one's given name was a surefire indicator of status.† (source)
- Eventually, prodded by a slightly alerted religious curiosity, he approached Willie-Jay, and the chaplain's clerk, at once responsive, thought he divined in the cripple-legged body builder with the misty gaze and the prim, smoky voice "a poet, something rare and savable.† (source)
- Yet things divined and endured, spectacular moments, hideous things like the black stranger jumping out of the hedge at nine o'clock, all seemed to Cassie to be by their own nature rising-and so alike-and crossing the sky and setting, the way the planets did.† (source)
- He divined that no mention would be made.† (source)
- He divined vaguely that what he had just heard must be linked to the sparse hints of meaning he had heard before, that had stirred him at first so strangely and afterwards scared him.† (source)
- And older still, he might have divined the true reason: that the element of fire spoke to some deep mainspring of his father's being, as the element of steel or of powder spoke to other men, as the one weapon for the preservation of integrity, else breath were not worth the breathing, and hence to be regarded with respect and used with discretion.† (source)
- But now, with all her senses quickened as they were, looking, straining, till the colour of the wall and the jacmanna beyond burnt into her eyes, she was aware of someone coming out of the house, coming towards her; but somehow divined, from the footfall, William Bankes, so that though her brush quivered, she did not, as she would have done had it been Mr. Tansley, Paul Rayley, Minta Doyle, or practically anybody else, turn her canvas upon the grass, but let it stand.† (source)
- The priest thought for a while that they were merely in awe before his rank and before the luxury of his apartment, but at last, much perplexed, he divined the presence of some deeper reluctance and sadly let them go.† (source)
- To avoid the strange emotion, that his mother's behavior aroused in him, he would have gone downstairs again, even at the risk of encountering Annie or Yussie, but there again, he divined how impatient she would be if he asked her to wait in the hallway.† (source)
- Paul divined that his master's bark was worse than his bite.† (source)
- He alone had divined what things were, and what he wished them to be.† (source)
- But she divined the mockery in Wolf Larsen's words, and again favoured me with a sympathetic glance.† (source)
- She sensed events in his look, and she divined suddenly that he must feel as if he were her brother.† (source)
- He eyed Black Bolly and then the halter, as though he had divined the fatal connection between them.† (source)
- It was not Helen's shrewdness, but a woman's intuition, which divined that.† (source)
- Another man came with what Madeline divined was a branding-iron.† (source)
- He knew what she had only half divined—that she loved him.† (source)
- He divined that never would he be able to keep off that phantom.† (source)
- He divined that her silence then was a Mormon seal on lips.† (source)
- But she had not yet divined' their meaning.† (source)
- She divined that there was antagonism between Gulden and all the others.† (source)
- Perhaps he divined what was passing in her mind.† (source)
- The consciousness of his half-divined reluctance had vanished.† (source)
- Tess was trying to lead a repressed life, but she little divined the strength of her own vitality.† (source)
- Like a man facing a great light Hare divined his love.† (source)
- Joan divined that Kells buckled on his gun to be ready to protect her.† (source)
- "Our own beautiful country, Marguerite," said Armand, who seemed to have divined her thoughts.† (source)
- For Lassiter, Jane divined that little Fay had become a religion.† (source)
- Then Madeline divined that her brother could not have any knowledge of this indignity.† (source)
- Helen only half divined his meaning, but that was enough for a future reflection.† (source)
- But the closer Carley came to what she divined must be an ordeal the more she dreaded it.† (source)
- Duane divined that no sudden animosity was driving Bosomer.† (source)
- The tragedy of the sheep had been only an incident in a tragical life—that Hare divined with awe.† (source)
- Shefford divined the weight of Mormonism that burdened Joe Lake then.† (source)
- Madeline divined something of why Nels shrank from being present.† (source)
- Never until that moment had he divined the meaning of a woman to a man.† (source)
- Joan divined the vain and futile and tragical nature of Kell's great enterprise.† (source)
- She divined that some peril menaced her.† (source)
- In this he divined as much of the baffling change as he thought would be revealed to him then.† (source)
- He divined the revelation—divined the coming blow—but that was as far as his mind got.† (source)
- He divined he was rushing to some fate—he knew not what.† (source)
- Out of the mother longing that swelled her breast she divined the child hunger in Lassiter.† (source)
- She could not think how to meet the situation, even had she divined what the situation was to be.† (source)
- Madeline instantly divined what his action meant.† (source)
- The atmosphere appeared not to be congenial for jokes, a fact Burt rather suddenly divined.† (source)
- Then Shefford divined why the Navajo had made that arduous climb.† (source)
- She divined in Roberts a cold and grim acceptance of something he had expected.† (source)
- She divined that weakening could not have been possible to Link Stevens.† (source)
- Dale divined that Beasley's next step would be to further his advancement by some word or hint.† (source)
- Joan divined that these comrades had caused the difference in him.† (source)
- In a flash she divined Link's intention.† (source)
- He had not divined the cause for such agitation.† (source)
- She divined apprehension from it rather than saw much expression in it.† (source)
- It was difficult, because she divined Pearce's curiosity held a trap to catch her in a falsehood.† (source)
- He divined a crime—he had seen her agony.† (source)
- Sounds that he was not afraid of, for he divined their meaning, then began to be audible.† (source)
- If he divined what was in her thoughts, his own were not in tune with it.† (source)
- Natasha shared this as she did all his feelings, which she constantly divined.† (source)
- Emma divined what every body present must be thinking.† (source)
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- He's heard vague tales about these people and their curious beliefs concerning divine messengers.† (source)
- He stared at her, as though trying to divine something.† (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.† (source)
- Whenever divine or monstrous elements mix with the mortal world, they generate Mist, which obscures the vision of humans.† (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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- Even without Divination, she was taking more subjects than anybody else.† (source)
- There was a good deal of talk, for example, about the divine intervention allegedly visited upon George Mercer III.† (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)
- 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)
- I'd looked to her, waited a split second to divine her reaction to something, then made up my own mind.† (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 Granmère makes him.† (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)
- 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)
- Euclid is complete in himself and divine in application.† (source)
- "You know, Dr. Davis, your life must be guided by divine intervention," she said.† (source)
- Tomorrow, I will divine the words before your eyes.† (source)
- High school is a divine-right monarchy.† (source)
- Something so divine that no one up in heaven could have made it up; the care a child took with an adult.† (source)
- The crowd parted for him and his partner, the most beautiful, most graceful, most divine woman in the room.† (source)
- Hermione Granger hates Divination.† (source)
- On and on flatlining, the Sufi drone, wafting and spiraling around us in the dark, ceaseless chants to the Divine.† (source)
- But unlike tea leaves, crystal balls, or even divining cards, these have true power.† (source)
- It is possible that the resulting persona could be human touched with a certain divine madness and meta-human perspective.† (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)
- Rumor had it you could divine your answer by which way the paper left the square.† (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)
- The plot of The Iliad is not particularly divine or global.† (source)
- He pivots, grunts and pushes, and by divine intervention, the cart squeezes into the room.† (source)
- I thought of the nearly empty temple of Ikkt, the Divine of Ikkt telling me of hundreds of singers long gone.† (source)
- He had mastered necromancy and sorcery, astrology and mathematics, divination and scrying.† (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)
- Talk about divine intervention-meeting the right people at the right time.† (source)
- Like I said, we meet the best people through the Templetons, who have divine shindigs.† (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)
- He always said that he had a "divine voice" inside him.† (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)
- "There's this apricot-plum smoothie with wildflower honey that's simply divine," said Isabelle, who had appeared with Simon at her side.† (source)
- I decided to use this lack of supervision to be divine.† (source)
- I experienced an extraordinary sense of belonging, a sense of being in the presence of some divine being.† (source)
- The base of the antenna contains a few microchips, whose purpose Hiro cannot divine by looking at them.† (source)
- They lent him their secret books and helped him decipher the mysteries of horoscopes and divining cards.† (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)
- THE MAGIC NUMBER ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY In 1996, a sometime actress and playwright by the name of Rebecca Wells published a book entitled Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.† (source)
- "For any woman with a shred of sense, that man is a gift from Divine Providence," said the nun.† (source)
- I memorize every inch of my family photo, trying to divine its secrets.† (source)
- What is this shadow across the highway of Divine Command?† (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)
- Jack says, as if divining her thoughts.† (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)
- And the divining?† (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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Poor Akiba Drumer, if only he could have kept his faith in God, if only he could have considered this suffering a divine test, he would not have been swept away by the selection.† (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)
- "Well, why don't we just begin our letter with 'Divine Westley,' and appeal to his sense of modesty," the Prince suggested.† (source)
- My new tresses are divine, and I emmerged among the other girls again two days ago when they arrived.† (source)
- These meatballs are divine!† (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)
- Yet when she did finally divine what was intended, the quality of her apologetic smile ought to have atoned for her lapse.† (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)
- It was an "instance of divine favor, for nothing surely ever came more apropos," Washington wrote immediately to Joseph Reed.† (source)
- Surgery takes the basic imperative of the medical profession to its outermost border, where the human makes contact with the divine.† (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)
- 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)
- We were human divining rods.† (source)
- The old man nodded, knowing that his words carried the force of divine authority.† (source)
- This is too divine a dream.† (source)
- "Back to Astaroth" had become a popular expression in Blys, another snippet of propaganda suggesting that the Demon was the divine singularity.† (source)
- I hold the angel sword in front of me like a divining rod.† (source)
- 'Yes,' she said, divining his thought, 'it is not permitted to speak of it, and Elrond could not do so.† (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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Divine.† (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)
- The third miracle is the most divine of all.† (source)
- Desperate, her great-aunt called a santera from Regla, who draped Celia with beaded necklaces and tossed shells to divine the will of the gods.† (source)
- On many slips of paper and old envelopes and on the backs of old bookmarks and church announcements, I found the names of dozens of agencies and programs that she'd contacted, among them "the Manhattan Valley St. John the Divine Youth Project,"† (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 dominant colors are green and gold: green, of course, being the color of nature, and gold the divine and tranquil color of which, like perfection, so little exists.† (source)
- To love a man for his virtues is paltry and human, it tells you; to love him for his flaws is divine.† (source)
- There is a bit of the divine in the trees and the creatures who reside there.† (source)
- The matchmaker and the diviner left, both with promises that they would return to check my progress.† (source)
- I saw them Tremble like wet wings of a fowl One day he cast his time-smoothed opele Across the divination board.† (source)
- Above all, he must see that the human form is kept true to the divine pattern in order that one day it may be permitted to regain the high place in which, as the image of God, it was set.† (source)
- He looked DIVINE in his uniform.† (source)
- An early attempt was absolute monarchy, passionately defended as the 'divine right of kings.'† (source)
- After fourteen years as a crime reporter, he knew men too well to bend his knee before the altar in the First Church of Humanity the Divine.† (source)
- I am not the divine wind of the Kamikaze.† (source)
- Rabbi Joshua son of Levi teaches us, 'Whoever does not labor in the Torah is said to be under the divine censure.'† (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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Diamond set off on a dead run toward the preacher, who was looking around for other takers of divine immersion.† (source)
- Love floated above their marriage, unachievable, divine.† (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)
- 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)
- There was the divine spark, as my mother used to say.† (source)
- He had seen something in K, I wanted to believe, he had discovered a curiosity in her, a uniqueness scientific or medical or otherwise, that attracted beyond her physical beauty, which was by any standard transcendent, somehow divine.† (source)
- She started using words like "divine" and "delicious" (not referring to food).† (source)
- The operation was code-named Wrath of God, a phrase chosen by Shamron to give his undertaking the patina of divine sanction.† (source)
- Three: divine intervention, that is to say, a good turn from above concerning him, cf.† (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)
- LUCKY: Given the existence as uttered forth in the public works of Puncher and Wattmann of a personal God quaquaquaqua with white beard quaquaquaqua outside time without extension who from the heights of divine apathia divine athambia divine aphasia loves us dearly with some exceptions for reasons unknown but time will tell and suffers like the divine Miranda with those who for reasons unknown but time will tell are plunged in torment plunged in fire whose fire flames if that continues and who can doubt it will fire the firmament that is to say blas† (source)
- I don't know whether it was a divine stupidity or a great faith that let them do it.† (source)
- He is about to receive some divine orders, and, shortly, a divine visitation.† (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)
- Divination asserts passivity, not for spiritual fulfillment, as in the Far East, but for practical and spiritual life.† (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)
- 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)
- and again he knew about Brahman, knew about the indestructibility of life, knew about all that is divine, which he had forgotten.† (source)
- You know everything, you divine everything, Yurochka, you are my strength and my refuge, God forgive me the blasphemy.† (source)
- "My mother is telling you, Mr. Scampo, the human voice alone is divine," said Mama with her little chin up.† (source)
- It is rather our duty to divine His will.† (source)
- He wondered if she could divine what was in his mind.† (source)
- I'm having every morsel of this divine party recorded.† (source)
- Out of the goodness of some divine intervention?† (source)
- Parvati set off for Divination five minutes later looking slightly crestfallen.† (source)
- In fact, all known methods of divining the future suddenly failed.† (source)
- "Double Divination this afternoon," Harry groaned, looking down.† (source)
- "Only failed Divination and History of Magic, and who cares about them?" he said happily to Harry.† (source)
- Wendy was a divining rod for strange disturbances in the earth's atmosphere.† (source)
- Without Muggle Studies and Divination, I'll be able to have a normal schedule again.† (source)
- Even by Harry's low standards in Divination, the exam went very badly.† (source)
- HARRY: A centaur with profound Divination skills.† (source)
- Professor — I was in Divination just now, and — er — I fell asleep.† (source)
- Professor Trelawney was their Divination teacher at Hogwarts.† (source)
- I'll bet you wish you hadn't given up Divination now, don't you, Hermione?' asked Parvati, smirking.† (source)
- Divination, but it's not for another twenty minutes," said Harry.† (source)
- Clara realized that that was why none of her infallible methods of divining had worked.† (source)
- The two divines wore tunics "the color of the men of light," as Marcos called the color yellow.† (source)
- " 'Sibyll Trelawney, Divination teacher," ' Harry read.† (source)
- "Shall we get our Divination stuff, then?" said Harry.† (source)
- 'You can't skive off Divination,' said Hermione severely.† (source)
- 'Hark who's talking, you walked out of Divination, you hate Trelawney!' said Ron indignantly.† (source)
- How did she know your scar hurt in Divination?† (source)
- We will be covering the basic methods of Divination this year.† (source)
- "I think Divination seems very woolly," she said, searching for her page.† (source)
- It seemed, however, that he was not the only person in Divination who was in a temper.† (source)
- Divination was his least favorite subject, apart from Potions.† (source)
- Harry's and Ron's last exam was Divination; Hermione's, Muggle Studies.† (source)
- I'd better go and see Professor Flitwick and say sorry...I'll see you in Divination!† (source)
- Your mother ...well, aside from being a brilliant scientist, she had the gift of divination.† (source)
- Slipping out from beneath the blanket, David strode toward a stack of books on Divination.† (source)
- The babalawos consulted the oracles with all their powers of divination.† (source)
- It's unbreakable," she said, as though divining its properties at a touch.† (source)
- She is prescient and clairvoyant and somehow divines the thoughts of others.† (source)
- The gae bolga twitched and gave a magnetic pull almost like a divining rod.† (source)
- Divination is man's attempt to find out what the universe is doing.† (source)
- Omen-watching, divination, has nothing whatever to do with magic.† (source)
- After divination one acts with the gods.† (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)
- Of course, I have known for a very long time...The omens were never good, Harry....But why have you not returned to Divination?† (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)
- 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)
- Professor McGonagall turned next to Parvati Patil, whose first question was whether Firenze, the handsome centaur, was still teaching Divination.† (source)
- Nivea took charge of Clara's trousseau, since Clara did not show the slightest interest in the contents of the sandalwood trunks, and continued her experiments with the three-legged table and her divining cards.† (source)
- The knowledge made him even less eager to find himself in her company, thankfully, this year he would be dropping 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)
- She had laughing hazel eyes, shiny hair flecked with white and pulled into an untidy bun from which rebellious wisps escaped, and fine white hands with almond-shaped nails and long ringless fingers, which were useless except when it came to gestures of affection, arranging her divining cards, or putting in her denture before meals.† (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)
- You see, I have already found us a new Divination teacher, and he will prefer lodgings on the ground floor.† (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)
- And unless I'm very much mistaken, Rita was perched on the windowsill of the Divination class the day your scar hurt.† (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)
- They had to wait until evening for their practical Astronomy; the afternoon was devoted instead to Divination.† (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)
- 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)
- 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)
- "See you at dinner!" said Hermione, and she set off for Arithmancy, while Harry and Ron headed toward North Tower, and Divination.† (source)
- 'Speaking of centaurs,' said Hermione, when she had recovered a little, 'who's Divination teacher now?† (source)
- He wanted to skip Divination to keep practicing, but Hermione refused pointblank to skive off Arithmancy, and there was no point in staying without her.† (source)
- It took them so long to find her classroom that, early as they had left Divination, they were only just in time.† (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)
- 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)
- Every single Divination and Care of Magical Creatures lesson was now conducted in the presence of Umbridge and her clipboard.† (source)
- Professor Dumbledore — yesterday, when I was having my Divination exam, Professor Trelawney went very — very strange.† (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)
- 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)
- "You know," said Ron, whose hair was on end because of all the times he had run his fingers through it in frustration, "I think it's back to the old Divination standby."† (source)
- Professor Trelawney delicately rearranged her shawl and continued, "So you have chosen to study Divination, the most difficult of all magical arts.† (source)
- 'History of Magic, double Potions, Divination and double Defence Against the Dark Arts...Binns, Snape, Trelawney and that Umbridge woman all in one day!† (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)
- 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)
- "Welcome to Divination," said Professor Trelawney, who had seated herself in a winged armchair in front of the fire.† (source)
- He skipped breakfast next morning to scribble down a couple of made-up dreams for Divination, their first lesson, and was surprised to find a dishevelled Ron keeping him company.† (source)
- Those are my books for Arithmancy, Care of Magical Creatures, Divination, the Study of Ancient Runes, Muggle Studies —† (source)
- That's what they should teach us here, he thought, turning over on to his side, how girls' brains work...it'd be more useful than Divination, anyway...Neville snuffled in his sleep.† (source)
- This evening, after Divination.† (source)
- Here he took a piece of parchment from the table upon which his Divination homework still lay and wrote the following letter: Dear Sirius, I reckon I just imagined my scar hurting, I was half asleep when I wrote to you last time.† (source)
- "Ah, starting Divination, are you?" said the manager, stripping off his gloves and leading Harry into the back of the shop, where there was a corner devoted to fortune-telling.† (source)
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It wasn't the divinity from the foreman's wife that made him sick.
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Philadelphia, where Father Divine reigned, wasn't all that far away.
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A big sack of divinity.
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