soothsayer

How To Use soothsayer In A Sentence

• The defeat of the Persian king Darius III by Alexander the Great in the Battle of Gaugamela in 331 B.C. was foretold by soothsayers when the moon turned blood-red a few days earlier.
• In the hills near Rome in 70 BC, Tarquinius, a slave proud of his Etruscan heritage and trained as the last Etruscan haruspex soothsayer, leaves the estate when his mentor is killed on the orders of a Roman noble. Archive 2009-08-01
• The ancient soothsayers looked to birds for auguries -- the birds upon the wing were the flexion of her soul. MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
• This ambition was encouraged by the magicians, soothsayers and necromancers who clustered at the Imperial Court.
• Ithacan with loud clamour drags Calchas the soothsayer forth amidst them, and demands of him what is this the gods signify. The Aeneid of Virgil
• Pundits, bookmakers, soothsayers and prophets of doom were duly confounded.
• Spirit of God will immix his own holy inspirations with the wicked suggestions of the devil in a soothsayer? or shall we suppose that the devil was the author of those predictions, whereas God reproacheth false gods, and their prophets acted by them, that they could not declare the things that should happen, nor show the things that were to come afterward? Pneumatologia
• This plaguy Serpent cannot be slain, for the soothsayers aver it beareth a charmed life, but it were a mighty achievement, if for only one year, the realm could be relieved of its oppression. PodCastle » PodCastle 89: The Queen’s Triplets
• It does seem incredible to me that having emerged from the sixteenth century to a modern world of science, that there is an urge among some in the population to return to soothsayers, crystal-ball gazers and quacks of all descriptions.
• Hence, our hero decided to seek out technicians and soothsayers, wizards and computer persons who could solve the puzzle of this malady affecting the mighty computer.