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The soothsayer predicted I will meet the love of my life this year.soothsayer = Someone claiming magical ability to foresee the future
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The soothsayer foresaw a severe drought.
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Once, long ago in the olden days, there was this soothsayer who predicted the day of his own death.† (source)
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A cross between pedagogue, soothsayer, and benevolent uncle — that should be his tone.† (source)
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Or the soothsayers who live in Valhalla.† (source)
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Hereabouts, where we sit among such piles of leftover protein we press it into cakes for the pets, who usefully guard our empty chairs; here where we pay soothsayers and acrobats to help lose our weight, then yes, for a child to die from hunger is immoral.† (source)
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A car dealership soothsayer, telling my fortune.† (source)
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I do not believe in ogres, nor soothsayers, nor in the supernatural things.† (source)
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I rail at the theistic credulity of Voltaire, the amoristic superstition of Shelley, the revival of tribal soothsaying and idolatrous rites which Huxley called Science and mistook for an advance on the Pentateuch, no less than at the welter of ecclesiastical and professional humbug which saves the face of the stupid system of violence and robbery which we call Law and Industry.† (source)
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Now ....I must play the part of Auliya, the Friend of God ....Sayyadina to rogue peoples who've been so heavily imprinted with our Bene Gesserit soothsay they even call their chief priestesses Reverend Mothers.† (source)
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Even as he is who seeth in a dream, And after dreaming the imprinted passion Remains, and to his mind the rest returns not, Even such am I, for almost utterly Ceases my vision, and distilleth yet Within my heart the sweetness born of it; Even thus the snow is in the sun unsealed, Even thus upon the wind in the light leaves Were the soothsayings of the Sibyl lost.† (source)
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Esteban Trueba felt uneasy in the presence of this unusual soothsayer, who had disturbed the peace of his library and upset his liver with her astrological rantings, but because of Clara, who was watching him out of the corner of her eye from across the room, he did not have the strength to send her away.† (source)
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As a result copies of predictions attributed to soothsayers or saints of the Catholic Church circulated freely from hand to hand.† (source)
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16:16 And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying: 16:17 The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of salvation.† (source)
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Go, you wild bedfellow, you cannot soothsay.† (source)
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He's the soothsayer.† (source)
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