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  • Muad'Dib claimed the spice as a key to his prophetic powers.†  (source)
  • Not because she was clairvoyant and had had a sudden flash of prophetic vision.†  (source)
  • Some —such as Ralph McGill, Lillian Smith, Harry Golden, James McBride Dabbs, Ann Braden and Sarah Patton Boyle—have written about our struggle in eloquent and prophetic terms.†  (source)
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  • Prophetic.†  (source)
  • Mr. Knightley had spoken prophetically, when he once said, "Emma, you have been no friend to Harriet Smith."†  (source)
  • The air with which Mr. Doolittle delivered this prophetical opinion was peculiar to his species.†  (source)
  • Was Sophie's dream prophetic?†  (source)
  • Everyone seemed to be speaking prophetically, hinting at some misfortune or sorrow to come; they had all looked at him as though they knew something which he did not know.†  (source)
  • 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 telling how.†  (source)
  • But the dream, which had seemed prophetic, refused to dissipate and hung like a poisonous vapor, my heart still pounding from the airy danger of it, its sense of openness and hazard.†  (source)
  • The bus had been owned by the weirdly, prophetically named Titanic Express.†  (source)
  • Waiting in gloom, protected by frost, The dirt receding before my prophetical screams, I underlying causes to balance them at last, My knowledge my live parts, it keeping tally with the meaning of all things, Happiness, (which whoever hears me let him or her set out in search of this day.)†  (source)
  • "Anything more?" asked Laurie, finding it hard to listen patiently to this prophetic burst.†  (source)
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