prophesier

Example Sentences

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Then Milo laughed and said, Verily we nourish a Sybel prophesier, which by the view of a candle doth divine of Celestiall things, and of the Sunne it selfe.

From The Golden Asse by Adlington, William, fl. 1566

He is "laudator temporis acti"—a "prophesier of things past."

From The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits by Hazlitt, William

But shall we have this dialogue between the fool and the soldier?—Come, bring forth this counterfeit module has deceived me like a double-meaning prophesier.

From All's Well That Ends Well by Shakespeare, William

"I must say you are not a prophesier of 'smooth things'" said Mrs. Elwyn, "but still, I hope the dismal things you have hinted at may not come to pass."

From Lewie Or, The Bended Twig by Bradford, Sarah H. (Sarah Hopkins)

Why is a bad gimlet like a prophesier of ill events?

From The Handbook of Conundrums by Ordway, Edith B.