All 19 Uses
prophecy
in
Kim, by Rudyard Kipling
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- 'And some day,' she said, confusedly remembering O'Hara's prophecies, 'there will come for you a great Red Bull on a green field, and the Colonel riding on his tall horse, yes, and' dropping into English—'nine hundred devils.'†
Chpt 1prophecies = predictions of the future
- Boylike, if an acquaintance had a scheme, Kim was quite ready with one of his own; and, boylike, he had really thought for as much as twenty minutes at a time of his father's prophecy.†
Chpt 1prophecy = prediction of the future
- 'There was a Mohammedan regiment lay next to us at the Pirzai Kotal, and a priest of theirs—he was, as I remember, a naik—when the fit was on him, spake prophecies.†
Chpt 2prophecies = predictions of the future
- Did one make a prophecy?†
Chpt 2 *prophecy = prediction of the future
- How runs thy prophecy?'†
Chpt 2
- Hence the two men of the prophecy.†
Chpt 2
- 'That is a sure prophecy,' rumbled a deep voice.†
Chpt 3
- It was only natural that the descending sun should at last strike through the tree-trunks, across the grove, filling it with mealy gold light for a few minutes; but to Kim it was the crown of the Umballa Brahmin's prophecy.†
Chpt 5
- For aught he knew, and Kim's limitations were as curious and sudden as his expansions, the men, the nine hundred thorough devils of his father's prophecy, might pray to the beast after dark, as Hindus pray to the Holy Cow.†
Chpt 5
- Lastly—and firstly as the undercurrent of all his quick thoughts—this adventure, though he did not know the English word, was a stupendous lark—a delightful continuation of his old flights across the housetops, as well as the fulfilment of sublime prophecy.†
Chpt 5
- That is always so in a dream, or on account of a—a—prophecy.†
Chpt 5
- D'you add prophecy to your other gifts?†
Chpt 5
- 'Now, my son, your prophecy of last night has come true.†
Chpt 6
- The story of his appearance in camp, the discovery of his parentage, and his prophecy, had lost nothing in the telling.†
Chpt 6
- 'I went into their camp and was caught, and by means of the charm about my neck, which thou knowest, it was established that I was the son of some man in the regiment: according to the prophecy of the Red Bull, which thou knowest was common talk of our bazar.'†
Chpt 6
- An' his prophesyin' to our Colonel, sitting on my bed with his little shimmy torn open showing his white skin; an' the prophecy comin' true!†
Chpt 6
- Well, don't say a word, directly or indirectly, about the Asiatic side of the boy's character—his adventures and his prophecy, and so on.†
Chpt 6
- This prophecy was fulfilled to the letter a month later.†
Chpt 7
- Who but I saw that prophecy accomplished?†
Chpt 12
Definitions:
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(1)
(prophecy) a prediction of the future (usually said to be obtained in a supernatural way)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)