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fortune-teller

[fawr-chuhn-tel-er] / ˈfɔr tʃənˌtɛl ər /


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Poe's chilling shadow falls across "The Hidden Cause" and "The Fortune-Teller".

From The Guardian • Mar. 1, 2013

When a fortune-teller predicted he would die in 1993, he refused to fly for a year and wrote a book about it: A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the hallway I get my first good look at my Junior Fortune-Teller escort.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston

Her "Fortune-Teller" attracted general attention at Venice in 1887.

From Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. by Waters, Clara Erskine Clement

"A Search for Money," by William Rowley, dramatist, 1609, Percy Soc.; and "The Man in the Moone, or the English Fortune-Teller," 1609, Percy Soc.

From A History of English Prose Fiction by Tuckerman, Bayard




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