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  • —Quaker prophecy Philadelphia, 1793.†   (source)
  • 'I'm not making prophecies,' said Harry.†   (source)
  • Though it wasn't exactly prophecy, Horace was right about one thing: nobody recognized me.†   (source)
  • And if it were an indication of some fell deed or prophecy, he'd have the girl hanging by nightfall.†   (source)
  • The stallion is the khal of khals promised in ancient prophecy, child.†   (source)
  • But tonight she was addressing her prophecy and greetings to Okonkwo, and so everyone in his family listened.†   (source)
  • A new prophecy.†   (source)
  • From that day on Mohammed thought of little else but the fulfillment of that prophecy.†   (source)
  • Prophecy runs in my family: will you permit me to read your palm?†   (source)
  • * The way Canadians select hockey players is a beautiful example of what the sociologist Robert Merton famously called a "self-fulfilling prophecy", a situation where "a false definition, in the beginning ...evokes a new behavior which makes the original false conception come true."†   (source)
  • Prophecies of revenge, spoken in a wretched language only he knew, rolled from his tongue.†   (source)
  • She had been thinking of her mother for most of the five hours Jack had been gone, her mother's prophecy that Jack would never come to anything.†   (source)
  • John had been exiled to the island of Patmos, where an angel visited him and commanded him to write down a series of prophecies to various churches.†   (source)
  • I paid him no mind, but not long afterward his prophecy came true.†   (source)
  • One was yellow with THANK YOU JESUS FOR LOVING ME written in big letters; another said PROPHECIES FULFILLED and was covered with coins made of tinfoil.†   (source)
  • In order to fulfill the prophecy, she must voluntarily climb to a cliff above the Big River and from there jump to her death onto the rocks below.†   (source)
  • Failure evolved into a self-fulfilling prophecy.†   (source)
  • His parents, fearing the terrible prophecy that he would kill his father and marry his mother, have him taken out to the country to be killed.†   (source)
  • We call prophecies like these Doomsday prophecies.†   (source)
  • And remember the prophecy, he added.†   (source)
  • The caterpillars' prophecies were always so vague.†   (source)
  • Self-fulfilling prophecy, I think.†   (source)
  • I am prone to let the doctors' prophecy rest and keep my thoughts to myself.†   (source)
  • Later, these musings about fire would come to seem like prophecy.†   (source)
  • But the lucidity of her old age allowed her to see, and she said so many times, that the cries of children in their mothers' wombs are not announcements of ventriloquism or a faculty for prophecy but an unmistakable sign of an incapacity for love.†   (source)
  • It's the self-fulfilling prophecy of madness.†   (source)
  • If anything, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.†   (source)
  • I have no doubt about the prophecy of the golden carp.†   (source)
  • They had also grown accustomed to the youngest daughter's prophecies.†   (source)
  • He slowed but didn't stop, taking time only to note a few of the titles, including one about the prophecies of Michel de Nostredame.†   (source)
  • Only this time, these prophecies seemed more founded.†   (source)
  • Zoey, you have never before manifested an affinity for prophecy or visions.†   (source)
  • Prophecy.†   (source)
  • He was writing a book on prophecy and rattled on about it as they all sat in the living room.†   (source)
  • They had the power of prophecy and clairvoyance.†   (source)
  • A weak rabbit who can't hope to get far by fighting sometimes tries to make himself important by other means and prophecy is a favorite.†   (source)
  • Still it was not those illnesses or even the ice that marked the beginning of the trouble, that self-fulfilled prophecy that Shadrack carried on his tongue.†   (source)
  • I'd hoped the Augurs had, at some point in time, expanded on their original prophecy—perhaps even described what the Aspirants should expect.†   (source)
  • They say the birth song can be a prophecy, for sure.†   (source)
  • The prophecy foretold that Balor would die at the hands of his own grandson...Lugh is Balor's grandson?†   (source)
  • A few minutes later Mike Strank's dark prophecy came true.†   (source)
  • As he carefully unfolded the paper, he knew that the Theorem's prophecy had been fulfilled.†   (source)
  • He condemned the folks who got creative with faith, like Marcus and his followers, who spoke in prophecies and had visions of a feminine divinity clothed in the letters of the Greek alphabet.†   (source)
  • Like a self-fulfilling prophecy.†   (source)
  • Had they overheard a prophecy?†   (source)
  • The half-vampire, half-human, ruling-over-vampirekind, enslaving-the-human-race subject of prophecy that Elysia had been watching out for for centuries.†   (source)
  • It may be prophecy.†   (source)
  • Self-fulfilling prophecies, you think?†   (source)
  • And it may gratify you to bring word to Mompellion of how thoroughly God has fulfilled his prophecies regarding my family.†   (source)
  • When she launched into prophecies of eternal damnation, he told her that God was my judge, not they.†   (source)
  • Our fate is to become one, and yet many-This is not prophecy, but description.†   (source)
  • Burton certainly agreed, but felt in an odd way that his prophecy had come true.†   (source)
  • It's so inevitable it became a self-fulfilling prophecy.†   (source)
  • The shades traveling to the underworld and those summoned back by sacrifice to provide prophecies were said to stop on their way to speak with him.†   (source)
  • "And I wonder how the prophecy will work out," said Aravis, "and what the great danger is that you're to save Archenland from."†   (source)
  • Thanks for your prophecy.†   (source)
  • "How convenient," Kessell mused, wondering if the subject of his dream had been a coincidence or a prophecy.†   (source)
  • "Sounds like the old self-fulfilling prophecy to me," Kate said.†   (source)
  • She makes pronouncements that Ivanito doesn't understand, stays up all night hearing prophecies in her head, forgives her father and ex-husband long lists of past trespasses.†   (source)
  • The killing took place during a lunar cycle known as the ides, fulfilling a prophecy by a local soothsayer.†   (source)
  • He shrank away from it as though it were a manifestation of virulent prophecies scribbled like obscene graffiti on the walls of holy places.†   (source)
  • Prophecy's sort of a waste of time, really.†   (source)
  • The prophecy she'd spoken soon after we'd been turned into vampires haunted me.†   (source)
  • Drained by the arduous interrogation, blinded by exhaustion and her abaya, Natalie could think of no reason to doubt the old preacher's prophecy.†   (source)
  • This prophecy is underwritten by the tendency of the rich to do this already.†   (source)
  • Mentally, she's always in some drizzly kirk of her own inheriting: and I'm in some Doric temple—clouds tearing through pillars—eagles bearing prophecies out of the sky.†   (source)
  • But I allowed myself to plunge on toward Coney Island, thus making sure to help fulfill Sophie's prophecy about the three of us: that we would become "the best of friends."†   (source)
  • It was like a curious fulfilment of Father Huismans's prophecy about the retreat of African Africa, and the success of the European graft.†   (source)
  • Either Preacher Henry was too old, or the Afro-Repose congregation had tired of his scolding and awful prophecies, for he no longer preached except on those Sundays when Afro-Repose's new minister, a light-skinned college graduate, was out of town.†   (source)
  • These lines were writ By Morgan, free, Who shall, the day he dies, See this prophecy.†   (source)
  • That, of course, is true, but all the same, Yurochka, believe it or not, those who know have seen the book, the Mason's prophecies, one hundred and forty years it's been lying under a stone, and now, it's my considered opinion, Yurochka, we've been sold down the river, sold for a song.†   (source)
  • Roy had been in trouble before, but this new trouble seemed to be the beginning of the fulfillment of a prophecy.†   (source)
  • Oh, I know those prophecies as well as the back of my hand-only nothing is here to warn me when it is now.†   (source)
  • His prophecy was unheeded.†   (source)
  • I'm sure it's coming," he said, rising from the chair, adding within the space of a few minutes his prophecy of the long-playing record to that of the Jewish literary renaissance.†   (source)
    prophecy = prediction of the future
  • His book—the work of an American professor —of religion—is brief in length but wise and far-seeing in its final dimensions (the.subtitle "Mass Death and the American Future" may give an idea of its ambitious—and chilling—attempt both at prophecy and a historical synthesis), and there is no room here to do justice to its full power and complexity, or to the moral and religious resonances it manages to convey; it will surely remain one of the essential handbooks of the Nazi era, a terrifyingly accurate necropsy and an urgent consideration of our own uncertain tomorrows.†   (source)
  • The — the prophecy...the prediction...Trelawney...†   (source)
  • Even when she was not channeling prophecies, Rachel was a wise young lady.†   (source)
  • He's worrying about...self-fulfilling prophecy, I suppose you could say.†   (source)
  • Where were you a few weeks ago when we battled to retrieve the prophecy for the Dark Lord?†   (source)
  • Not all of us are the subject of terrible prophecies?†   (source)
  • Oh, yes, I hear you critics out there: You're the god of prophecy, Apollo.†   (source)
  • We call prophecies like these prophecies of redemption.†   (source)
  • Because whether or not you are the child of the prophecy, Kronos thinks you might be.†   (source)
  • The prophecy was clear: The bane of Olympus shows the trail.†   (source)
  • Because of your so-called Great Prophecy.†   (source)
  • SCORPIUS: But if the prophecy is inevitable why are we here trying to influence it?†   (source)
  • Part of a prophecy I had years ago ...well, some of the lines make sense to me, now.†   (source)
  • It is pleasant to think that Bomoko understood the prophecy in his words: "Institutions endure."†   (source)
  • Father told us Tata Kuvudundu conducts the sin of false prophecy.†   (source)
  • Marley fulfilled the prophecy, committing the ultimate Dog Beach heresy.†   (source)
  • "The prophecy did not refer to a woman," said Dumbledore.†   (source)
  • "It's the Great Prophecy, isn't it?" a girl called out.†   (source)
  • The Norns, or some other weird prophecy gods, had interwoven her fate with ours.†   (source)
  • It was Snape who had carried the news of the prophecy to Voldemort.†   (source)
  • Newton was deep into numerology, prophecy, and astrology, but what does—†   (source)
  • Do you believe them to be the basis of the prophecy?†   (source)
  • I had a bad feeling the prophecy was connected to that.†   (source)
  • "In terms of prophecy," Teabing said, "we are currently in an epoch of enormous change.†   (source)
  • The prophecy was hot with the heat of his clutching hand as he held it out.†   (source)
  • "It sounded like a prophecy," she admitted.†   (source)
  • I still hope you are not the child of the prophecy, Percy.†   (source)
  • I mean ...if we're three of the ones from the Great Prophecy, who are the others?†   (source)
  • You understand there's no such thing as a little death prophecy, right?†   (source)
  • I thought about the prophecy made at Half-Blood Hill, what seemed like a million years ago.†   (source)
  • GINNY: The best way to break the prophecy is not to kill Harry Potter.†   (source)
  • That glass ball that smashed wasn't the only record of the prophecy.†   (source)
  • What did the prophecy say exactly, my dear?†   (source)
  • Yet I reached out with all my willpower and sought the voice of prophecy, drawing it to me.†   (source)
  • My Lady, when one has lived with prophecy for so long, the moment of revelation is a shock.†   (source)
  • I know the prophecy, Hekate snapped, her dress now shot through with red and black veins.†   (source)
  • You see now, Percy, why we thought it best not to tell you the whole prophecy.†   (source)
  • 'But then ...but then, why was it my name on the prophecy and not Neville's?'†   (source)
  • Besides, we already have a real prophecy to worry about.†   (source)
  • We don't even know if the prophecy is about you.†   (source)
  • 'The prophecy's smashed,' Harry said blankly.†   (source)
  • I tried to convince myself that its prophecy had come to completion.†   (source)
  • Tell me the prophecy you heard in the grove.†   (source)
  • I wasn't sure what she'd do for the "Great Prophecy?†   (source)
  • This kid in the prophecy ...he or she couldn't be like, a Cyclops?†   (source)
  • Before Voldemort curses himself she's going to kill you and so break the prophecy and ...†   (source)
  • With a sudden chill, I remembered the words of the prophecy: the child of Athena's final stand.†   (source)
  • If this prophecy is about me, that's two more years.†   (source)
  • The two that are one and the one that is all the very first prophecy Abraham speaks of.†   (source)
  • Relax, It's Just a Little Death Prophecy†   (source)
  • The current whereabouts of the prophecy, if it exists, are unknown, although{ctd.†   (source)
  • At any rate, some of the prophecy is becoming clear.†   (source)
  • Thus was the prophecy made true that the Lisan al-Gaib might be both dead and alive.†   (source)
  • We're the first of the seven who have to gather for the Great Prophecy.†   (source)
  • At least we know what the lines of the prophecy mean now.†   (source)
  • She's not trying to bring about her prophecy—she's trying to prevent the big one.†   (source)
  • Besides, the prophecy said we would lose one.†   (source)
  • Chiron ...your prophecy from the Oracle ...it was about Kronos, wasn't it?†   (source)
  • I remembered Hearthstone's prophecy: Blitzen.†   (source)
  • You found a talking arrow that gave you a prophecy?†   (source)
  • Faintly scrawled words underneath it read: PROPHECY?†   (source)
  • He's tricked us again, given himself another chance to control the prophecy.†   (source)
  • Dee knew of the famous prophecy from the Book of Abraham the Mage.†   (source)
  • The prophecy: she saw what you would do.†   (source)
  • Percy, I didn't know who the prophecy was talking about.†   (source)
  • What of the harmonics inherent in the act of prophecy?†   (source)
  • "But," spluttered Harry, "but you said the prophecy means —"†   (source)
  • Now, Potter, either give us the prophecy, or watch your little friend die the hard way!†   (source)
  • DELPHI: No. To fulfill the prophecy, this has to be you, not a puppet of you.†   (source)
  • Annabeth wasn't sure why she had blurted out the lines of the prophecy.†   (source)
  • I wondered if I was looking at prophecies that had come true.†   (source)
  • I thought about the line in Annabeth's prophecy: You shall rise or fall by the ghost king's hand.†   (source)
  • But the prophecy caused Lord Voldemort to mark you as his equal.†   (source)
  • But, Percy, this means the prophecy might not be about you.†   (source)
  • As they left, I thought about the Great Prophecy.†   (source)
  • And why did he want to steal a prophecy about me?†   (source)
  • And the prophecy said we'd cause death if we unleash her rage.†   (source)
  • To go on a quest, we need a prophecy, right?†   (source)
  • Nicholas Flamel was the immortal of the prophecy.†   (source)
  • And she said: "You spoke of your Reverend Mother ....and I've heard words of legend and prophecy.†   (source)
  • It's got something to do with your prophecy.†   (source)
  • The Fates ordained a prophecy eons ago, when this creature was born.†   (source)
  • Maybe if you told me the last line of the prophecy, it would help.†   (source)
  • We should talk about the Great Prophecy.†   (source)
  • Kronos had done it to bring another chess piece into play-another chance to control the prophecy.†   (source)
  • "The Mahdi will be aware of things others cannot see," went the prophecy.†   (source)
  • Like that prophecy in Latin back at camp, or that dream about the wolf.†   (source)
  • Remember the prophecy: the two that are one, the one that is all.†   (source)
  • He knew the prophecy had been made, though he did not know its full contents.†   (source)
  • He believed that in killing you, he was destroying the danger the prophecy had outlined.†   (source)
  • "But," Percy continued, "I can't get involved in another Big Prophecy or whatever.†   (source)
  • SCORPIUS: Wasn't aware that there was a prophecy, what prophecy?†   (source)
  • She looked lifeless now, but whenever she spoke a prophecy, she moved.†   (source)
  • The prophecy says at least two of you will die.†   (source)
  • I mean, I knew Chiron had received a prophecy from the Oracle many years ago.†   (source)
  • He had not told Ron, Hermione or anyone else what the prophecy had contained.†   (source)
  • I had a feeling she was thinking about her prophecy.†   (source)
  • IJAZ: prophecy that by its very nature cannot be denied; immutable prophecy.†   (source)
  • And on them, written in fluorescent paint, a prophecy.†   (source)
  • There was this prophecy that said when I turned sixteen, bad things would happen.†   (source)
  • Maybe she got a prophecy or some bad news.†   (source)
  • Rachel leaned forward and steepled her fingers, as she did when she spoke a prophecy.†   (source)
  • Piper whispered to Rachel, "What's she talking about—the Great Prophecy?†   (source)
  • The book you lost I am also the Guardian who appears in the prophecies in the Book, Flamel snapped.†   (source)
  • Ho you think every prophecy in the Hall of Prophecy has been fulfilled?†   (source)
  • Let us hope the prophecy does not mean what I think.†   (source)
  • He dreams with the Fremen—of prophecies and messiahs.†   (source)
  • I believe our enemies want to cut us off from every possible source of prophecy.†   (source)
  • I don't know how, but I know that prophecy.†   (source)
  • I'd heard it speak prophecies twice before.†   (source)
  • When Chiron first learned about Thalia, he assumed she was the one in the prophecy.†   (source)
  • The line from the great prophecy echoed in my head: A hero's soul, cursed blade shall reap.†   (source)
  • DELPHI: You're mistaken, child, prophecies are the future.†   (source)
  • "That was a prophecy," Octavian insisted.†   (source)
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