All 10 Uses
clairvoyance
in
The House of the Spirits
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- Marcos maintained that his niece's gift could be a source of income and a good opportunity for him to cultivate his own clairvoyance.†
Chpt 1 *
- Clara the Clairvoyant Clara was ten years old when she decided that speaking was pointless and locked herself in silence.†
Chpt 3
- Clara the Clairvoyant could interpret dreams.†
Chpt 3
- The young girl entered the room with blazing cheeks and blackened nails; she had been outside helping the gardener plant dahlia bulbs, and just this once her clairvoyant faculties had failed her, leaving her unprepared to meet her visitor in more suitable attire.†
Chpt 3
- Clara let herself be shepherded around with a sweetness that was not stupidity but distraction, and she devoted all her powers of concentration to vain attempts to communicate with Esteban by telepathy—her messages did not arrive—and to perfecting her abilities as a clairvoyant.†
Chpt 3
- But it soon became abundantly clear that he had not the slightest talent for clairvoyance or telekinesis, and he was forced to be content with the mechanics of astrological charts, tarot cards, and the I Ching.†
Chpt 6
- In fact there were times when she would have been delighted to escape her grandmother's clairvoyance, her mother's intuition, and the clamor of all the eccentric people who were constantly appearing, disappearing, and reappearing in the big house on the corner.†
Chpt 9
- The two loves of my life, Rosa of the green hair and Clara the clairvoyant, the two sisters I adored, merged into one.†
Chpt 10
- that she took it into her head to help fugitives get asylum in the foreign embassies, something she did without thinking, I'm sure, without realizing that the country is at war, whether war against international Communism or its own people it's hard to tell, but war one way or the other, and these things are punishable by law, but Alba always has her head in the clouds and doesn't realize she's in danger, she doesn't do it to be mean, really, just the opposite, she does it because her heart knows no limits, just like her grandmother, who still runs around ministering to the poor behind my back in the abandoned wing of the house, my clairvoyant Clara, and anyone who tells Alba people are aft†
Chpt 14
- She also helped us write, and thanks to her presence Esteban Trueba was able to die happy, murmuring her name: Clara, clearest, clairvoyant.†
Chpt Epil.
Definitions:
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(1)
(clairvoyance) to perceive things beyond the natural range of the senses -- especially foreseeing the future
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)