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  • Her intimate gestures, soothsayer's words, and majestic raised palms were magic.

    ɘloЯ 2010

  • The soothsayer's 'Ides of March' email fails to get Caesar's proper attention as it's inadvertently filtered into his junk folder.

    If ancient Rome had the Internet... The Nag 2007

  • They hadn't closed the soothsayer's eyes, so he still seemed to stare back.

    Bridge of the Separator Turtledove, Harry 2005

  • The soothsayer's mouth worked, but no sound came forth.

    Bridge of the Separator Turtledove, Harry 2005

  • Now he was the one who seized the soothsayer's wrist.

    Bridge of the Separator Turtledove, Harry 2005

  • The pepper fog had been successful far beyond the old soothsayer's dreams.

    Riverwind the Plainsman Thompson, Paul B. 1990

  • The soothsayer's green eyes looked daggers at him, but she continued to tell her cards.

    Conan The Invincible Jordan, Robert 1982

  • By degrees these reports tickled my own curiosity to such a degree, that, incontinently, I armed myself with a quantity of cotton cloth, a brilliant bandanna, and a lot of tobacco, wherewith I resolved to attack the soothsayer's den.

    Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot

  • Mr.L. certainly did _mark_ her words, inasmuch as returning to England, he quitted the army, entered the church, and amongst other red-coat reminiscences, used frequently to mention (and mention but to ridicule) the American soothsayer's prediction.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 281, November 3, 1827 Various

  • And alone with his sad heart he ponders it all, gazing on the endless forest, and utters this prayer: 'If but now that bough of gold would shew itself to us on the tree in this depth of woodland! since all the soothsayer's tale of thee, Misenus, was, alas! too truly spoken.'

    The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

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