foreteller
Example Sentences
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What foreteller of spear-shower E'en within this nigh-passed hour, Swift through the rough weather rode Past the gate of this abode?
From The Story of Grettir the Strong by William Morris
The despised flower was by this raised to the position of a prophet or foreteller of events.
From Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen
In all high-strung Irish souls there is a bit of the old wife, the foreteller; the gift of prescience; and Kitty possessed this in a mild degree.
From The Drums of Jeopardy by Harold MacGrath
"I am what you might call a mind reader, a mystic, a foreteller of future events."
From Jack Ranger's Western Trip Or, from Boarding School to Ranch and Range by Clarence Young
Then, again, the word prophet has come to be associated with the thought of a foreteller of future events.
From Thomas Carlyle Famous Scots Series by Hector Carsewell Macpherson