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  • Soothsayers reporting future calamities often exhibit behavior that limits their credibility.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Rus Bowden 2009

  • Soothsayers didnt grow on trees, and already they were wading deep into the recruiting pool.

    Kiss of a Demon King Kresley Cole 2009

  • Soothsayers didnt grow on trees, and already they were wading deep into the recruiting pool.

    Kiss of a Demon King Kresley Cole 2009

  • Soothsayers didnt grow on trees, and already they were wading deep into the recruiting pool.

    Kiss of a Demon King Kresley Cole 2009

  • He is once said to have decided to change the direction of traffic overnite (on the advice of the Soothsayers).

    Blake Fleetwood: Bush to Invade Burma, Secret Plans Exposed 2008

  • Soothsayers were repeating oracles of the most different kinds, which all found in some one or other enthusiastic listeners.

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

  • Soothsayers in Skopentzana were three for a copper, as they were in any other city in the Empire of Videssos.

    Bridge of the Separator Turtledove, Harry 2005

  • Soothsayers take notice of cases where animals keep apart from one another, and cases where they congregate together; calling those that live at war with one another

    The History of Animals 2002

  • Soothsayers gathered before the “writing on the wall,” and unable to read the characters or make known the interpretation.

    Wuthering Heights 2002

  • Soothsayers are consulted, and the movements of birds are interpreted as oracles, but an English audience is hard put to hear the voice of God in all this.

    Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

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