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- Mac didn't join in on the prognostication.† (source)
- "Be careful with your prognostications," said the stranger.† (source)
- Until that moment Dr. Urbino Daza had not noticed the inappropriateness of his prognostications, and he became enmeshed in a long series of explanations that only made matters worse.† (source)
- He knew that Angela rarely cast the dragon bones for the people who sought her services-usually only for those whom Solembum deigned to speak with-as such a prognostication was no false act of magic but rather a true foretelling that could reveal the mysteries of the future.† (source)
- The big G's weather prognosticator, Altitude Lou McNally, was calling for temperatures of over 100 degrees inland and not much cooler on the coast.† (source)
- The child spent whatever free time her tutors left her in reading, moving numerous different objects without touching them, chasing Barrabas, practicing various techniques of prognostication, and learning to knit, which was the only one of the domestic arts she ever mastered.† (source)
- Much like the writers who said that my style would never work in the SEC, now the prognosticators were saying that my throwing motion— thanks, Dad!† (source)
- Guns are going off and people are dying, and they calmly prognosticate heat-not the heat of the battle but of the weather.† (source)
- To those who thought they would be more physical than us, we could all remember back to the mat drills and Coach Mick, and we knew we were going to show not just Ohio State but all the pundits and prognosticators just how physical we could be.† (source)
- Despite her common sense, which had withstood more than twenty years' worth of the three-legged table and her mother's prognostications, she was trembling as she crossed the threshold of the darkroom.† (source)
- But Esteban Trueba was not the kind of man to let himself be scared away by tales of ghosts in hallways, objects that move of their own accord, or prognostications of bad luck, much less by Clara's prolonged silence, which he considered a virtue.† (source)
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- Poirot's prognostications had been correct.† (source)
- But the General's prognostications were not fulfilled.† (source)
- For once I thought Poirot's prognostications were going to be proved wrong.† (source)
- King Pelles had gone to the library to work out some prognostications, and his guest was left gloomily in the hall.† (source)
- I prognosticate for myself an obstinate cold, at least.'† (source)
- Is this to prognosticate peace, or to mock at my unhappiness?† (source)
- "Monsieur le protonotare," asked Gauchère, "what do you prognosticate of this pretended foundling?"† (source)
- Lily heard her fling out as the climax of her prognostications; and Stepney responded, as if struck: "Jove, that's an idea.† (source)
- For in spite of her obvious pleasure at seeing him again, only thinly repressed for the first moment or two, she was on the instant beginning to be troubled by her thoughts in regard to him—the difficulties that contact with him seemed to prognosticate.† (source)
- As he spoke, the Professor continued to consult his chronometer, and he was again right in his prognostications.† (source)
- In an hour the slight moisture resolved itself into a monotonous smiting of earth by heaven, in torrents to which no end could be prognosticated.† (source)
- In vain were the well-meant condescensions of Sir Thomas, and all the officious prognostications of Mrs. Norris that she would be a good girl; in vain did Lady Bertram smile and make her sit on the sofa with herself and pug, and vain was even the sight of a gooseberry tart towards giving her comfort; she could scarcely swallow two mouthfuls before tears interrupted her, and sleep seeming to be her likeliest friend, she was taken to finish her sorrows in bed.† (source)
- It was the prognostication of the philosopher who sees human thought, volatilized by the press, evaporating from the theocratic recipient.† (source)
- You will believe my prognostications another time, though I daresay I shan't live to prognosticate anything but my own death."† (source)
- The prioress, that pronounced prognosticator, immediately took a fancy to Cosette and gave her a place in the school as a charity pupil.† (source)
- On the third day my mother sickened; her fever was accompanied by the most alarming symptoms, and the looks of her medical attendants prognosticated the worst event.† (source)
- You will believe my prognostications another time, though I daresay I shan't live to prognosticate anything but my own death."† (source)
- But youth had gained the upper hand; and, as frequently happens, in spite of prognostications and diagnoses, nature had amused herself by saving the sick man under the physician's very nose.† (source)
- In sum an infinite great fall of rain and all refreshed and will much increase the harvest yet those in ken say after wind and water fire shall come for a prognostication of Malachi's almanac (and I hear that Mr Russell has done a prophetical charm of the same gist out of the Hindustanish for his farmer's gazette) to have three things in all but this a mere fetch without bottom of reason for old crones and bairns yet sometimes they are found in the right guess with their queerities no…† (source)
- Lastly at the head of the board was the young poet who found a refuge from his labours of pedagogy and metaphysical inquisition in the convivial atmosphere of Socratic discussion, while to right and left of him were accommodated the flippant prognosticator, fresh from the hippodrome, and that vigilant wanderer, soiled by the dust of travel and combat and stained by the mire of an indelible dishonour, but from whose steadfast and constant heart no lure or peril or threat or degradation…† (source)
- Nay, if an oily palm be not a fruitful prognostication, I cannot scratch mine ear.† (source)
- He has a son,—who shall be flayed alive; then 'nointed over with honey, set on the head of a wasp's nest; then stand till he be three quarters and a dram dead; then recovered again with aqua-vitae or some other hot infusion; then, raw as he is, and in the hottest day prognostication proclaims, shall he be set against a brick wall, the sun looking with a southward eye upon him,—where he is to behold him with flies blown to death.† (source)
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