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    Or the soothsayers who live in Valhalla.†  (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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    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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    Chapter 43 — THE HALL OF THE SOOTHSAYER.†  (source)
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    I do not believe in ogres, nor soothsayers, nor in the supernatural things.†  (source)
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    Go, you wild bedfellow, you cannot soothsay.†  (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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    TYRONE Then it doesn't take a soothsayer to tell he's probably in the whorehouse.†  (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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    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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    I'm only trying to gather together what a city-bred man knew of eagles altogether, and it's curious: the eagle of money, the high-flying eagles of Bombay, the NRA eagle with its gear and lightnings, the bird of Jupiter and of nations, of republics as well as of Caesar, of legions and soothsayers, Colonel Julian the Black Eagle of Harlem; also the ravens of Noah and Elijah, which may well have been eagles; the lone eagle, animal president.†  (source)
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    The killing took place during a lunar cycle known as the ides, fulfilling a prophecy by a local soothsayer.†  (source)
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    about the also-dead—the face, the smallest face in company, watching him across the table with still and curious and profound intensity as though she actually had some intimation gained from that rapport with the fluid cradle of events (time) which she had acquired or cultivated by listening beyond closed doors not to what she heard there but by becoming supine and receptive, incapable of either discrimination or opinion or incredulity, to the pre-fever's temperature of disaster which makes soothsayers and sometimes makes them right, of the future catastrophe in which the ogre-face of her childhood would apparently vanish so completely that she would agree to marry the late owner of it.†  (source)
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