How To Use Soothsayer In A Sentence
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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.
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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
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The ancient soothsayers looked to birds for auguries -- the birds upon the wing were the flexion of her soul.
MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
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This ambition was encouraged by the magicians, soothsayers and necromancers who clustered at the Imperial Court.
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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
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Pundits, bookmakers, soothsayers and prophets of doom were duly confounded.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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The aquarium where Paul lived first mooted the idea of erecting a memorial to the octopus after his death last year and now the soothsayer's legacy has been enshrined with the permanent monument.
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They ask soothsayers and diviners to find out the cause of problems and to suggest remedies.
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Saurid, being convinced by his priests, astrologers and soothsayers that the portent was a true one, became from that time possessed of one idea, which was that the vast learning of Egypt, its sciences, discoveries and strange traditions should not be lost, -- and that the exploits and achievements of those who were great and famous in the land should be so recorded as never to be forgotten.
Ziska
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Queen and a Chaldean soothsayer, which is one of the most powerful in the opera.
The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory.
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That Coratius, a Sabine farmer, who possessed a particularly fine cow, was advised by a soothsayer to sacrifice her to Diana upon the Aventine Hill; telling him, that the city where _she_ now presided -- _Diana_ -- should become mistress of the world, and he who presented her with that cow should become master over that city.
Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I
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A soothsayer, steeped in the art of feng shui, advised the clan to invite a family named Ding to live in their midst; the word ding means "nail," and the Hus needed something to anchor their clan's roots, he said.
China's Family Ties
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I'm sure that el Señor Bill Gates won't agree with Mark Anderson, but his words are spot on despite being a 20th Century soothsayer aka analyst.
Original Signal - Transmitting Gadgets
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In addition, shamans and soothsayers deal with the supernatural and the spirit world.
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A songwriter needn't be a literary lion but in this case, the lack of a back story, esoteric insight, charmed charisma, or soothsayer actualization renders them, more or less, a solid bar band with a great list of influences.
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From Etruria was introduced the art of the haruspices, or soothsayers, which consisted in discovering the divine mind by the appearance of victims slain for the sacrifices.
General History for Colleges and High Schools
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I never imagined in my wildest dreams that I would one day share the French word for "soothsayer" with you.
Devin - French Word-A-Day
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Then he calls his soothsayers, but the wise men only shake their heads.
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` soothsayer, 'galloglass, Irish and Gaelic galloglach ` foreign youth,' which took on the meaning of ` soldier, 'glen from Irish and Gaelic gleann, earlier glenn ` mountain-valley,' kern from Old Irish ceitern ` band of foot-soldiers, 'leprechaun from Irish lupracan ` sprite,' loch from Irish loch
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol II No 2
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But my personal objection to the codes is something else entirely and has to do with the rise of Judaism as magic and Rabbis as soothsayers.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Rise of the Religious Charlatans
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`The auger Llew is talking about is a bore, like most of the soothsayers you studied in your Latin prose.
GOODBYE CURATE
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Upon this, Amarar called his soothsayer, and required him to name a propitious moment for the sally.
Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver
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I have always been careful to say that I'm not a soothsayer, I can't tell into the future what will happen.
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Economists, businessmen and soothsayers responded and the news wires, television channels, newspapers and radio waves were filled with predictions and projections, mostly bad and gloomy.
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After the birth, soothsayers were consulted to speak about the child's future and offerings were made to the ancestors.
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They ask soothsayers and diviners to find out the cause of problems and to suggest remedies.
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Hector, being taken ill, consulted on his case some of the witches or soothsayers, to whom this family appears to have been partial.
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The ancient soothsayers looked to birds for auguries -- the birds upon the wing were the flexion of her soul.
MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
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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 » 2010 » February
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A new breed of soothsayers has already been prophesying the virtual demise of the manufacturing industry.
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They recall the prophesy that a soothsayer named Calchas had once made about the future.
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Closer inspection reveals the soothsayer had made a typically vague prophecy that a ‘very large robbery’ would take place across the water.
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And for the brief period where Ronan told the rest of them to get stuffed, Shane went out, got tatted up, and reinvented himself as some kind of soothsayer on Celebrity Love Island.
Is This The Greatest GIRLBAND Ever?
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But fund managers and portfolio managers are not seers or soothsayers.
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What does Warren Buffett, billionaire investor and economic soothsayer, like this week?
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If you encounter macrame, leave the practice, consult a soothsayer.
Ketone Deficiency
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When the college was first set up, however, disease and accident were believed to be the will of God, and qualified doctors found themselves competing against quack physicians, soothsayers and herbalists.
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I want to ask you a very simple question: unless you are a soothsayer or a clairvoyant how did you work out the result of that vote, given that only one person said no and no one said yes?
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Do you really think that while they're arresting heretics is the best time to be having trade with fortune tellers and soothsayers?
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That's better left to soothsayers and their modern equivalent, the legions of ‘political analysts’ of the 24-hour news cycle.
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As if fulfilling the portentous predictions of some medieval soothsayer, the first year of this new century has witnessed an unprecedented catalogue of warnings of the cumulative effects of climate change.
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Con is a proper name: Can is a name of authority or dignitie, which signifieth a diuiner or soothsayer All diuiners are called Can amongst them.
The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253.
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So the next morning he sent for a soothsayer to interpret his dream for him.
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Carmental Gate, which the Romans call anciently by that name in honour of the Nymph Carmentis, seer and soothsayer, who sang of old the coming greatness of the Aeneadae and the glory of Pallanteum.
The Aeneid of Virgil
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Only a soothsayer might predict the course of future budgets and funding patterns.
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In the room next door, a soothsayer was telling people's fortunes - and it's safe to assume the future she's prophesying for her country is not a happy one.
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His clipped prophecy held the authority of a soothsayer.
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devourer" of people, a famous soothsayer (Jos 13: 22). son of Beor -- or, in the Chaldee form, Bosor -- that is, "destruction.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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The interpreter translated this for Mesullam, but the soothsayer was all the while in the same suspicious and crabbed mood.
The Girl from the Marsh Croft
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The robot can also be an observer, a soothsayer, a malcontent or a destructor.
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Moncada caressed his little vial as a soothsayer might caress a good-luck charm.
BLACK EAGLES
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So Thebes becomes Themes, Zeus becomes Sooth (as in soothsayer) and Semele becomes Simile.
Archive 2008-06-01
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For the prediction, two boxes were lowered into the salty soothsayer's tank, each containing a mussel and the flag of the two opposing teams.
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Yours is the kind of question that needs to be taken to a real soothsayer, an archetypal Oracle, perhaps.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
