seeress

Example Sentences

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There is a scary old seeress who pops up at regular intervals to hurl paranormal invective at the characters.

From New York Times

Dixon’s ominous foresight first appeared in a profile of the Washington socialite and seeress in Parade magazine on May 13, 1956, under the headline “Incredible Crystal Gazer.”

From Salon

But folk laughed at the forecast, and the cheers of welcome drowned the wail of the seeress.

From Project Gutenberg

Banquet of the Gods" in which the seeress received the following exhortation from him, in enforcement of the necessity of pure and natural habits of life for the perfectionment of the faculties requisite for full spiritual perception, when, having put into her hands a branch of a fig-tree bearing upon it ripe fruit, he said:— "If you would be perfect, and able to know and to do all things, quit the heresy of Prometheus.

From Project Gutenberg

It is no little joy to me to feel that I am so much more in sympathy with God's daughter, the Seeress, than I supposed.

From Project Gutenberg