How To Use prophetess In A Sentence
- His wife (because the wife of a prophet) is called the prophetess; she conceived and bore a son, another son, who must carry a sermon in his name, as the former had done (ch.vii. 3), but with this difference, that spoke mercy, Shear-jashub -- The remnant shall return; but, that being slighted, this speaks judgment, Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
- The path the woman had followed had disappeared; the place she had arrived at was too holy for anyone to tread on unless for the purpose of taking an offering to the prophetess.
- The prophetess is forgotten for the voices that speak through her. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
- Mary, the sister of Moses, is called a prophetess; Anna, the mother of Samuel, prophesied; Elizabeth, the mother of John the The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
- That appreciation and expression of the beautiful is something that the French explorers in that other world -- the valley reached of the pioneers of the seeing eyes and the understanding hearts -- have carried and will continue to carry over those same portages, to give that virile life of the west some of those higher satisfactions of which this daughter of the portage is the prophetess. The French in the Heart of America
- I have spent a good deal of the last three and a half years researching the Sibyl of Cumae, the pagan prophetess of classical antiquity said by Virgil to write her oracles on leaves.
- It happened, on one occasion, when a nursery-servant of ours was waiting in her anteroom for the purpose of taking her turn in consulting the prophetess professionally, that she had witnessed a scene of consternation and unaffected maternal grief in this Hungarian lady upon the sudden seizure of her son, a child of four or five years old, by a spasmodic inflammation of the throat (since called croup) peculiar to children, and in those days not very well understood by medical men. Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers — Volume 1
- Finally, the third: people without religion, accustomed to pillage, to murder, to quarter themselves upon the peasants; a rascalry furious, fanatical, and swarming with prophetesses. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5
- We're told she's a prophetess in Richard III and that she has tremendous accuracy.
- So I prepared and planned, and when the first one, Aries, was ready, I waited for the sign from the prophetess. GING GANG GOOLIE IT'S AN ALIEN