soothsay

Example Sentences

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But, he added, the ability to soothsay where a young man is going to be five years from now requires the scout to dig even deeper.

From Washington Times • Mar. 7, 2016

A regular monthly column, for example, is called "Haruspex," for the Roman soothsay ers who divined the future by poking through the entrails of sacrificial animals.

From Time Magazine Archive

What shall I tell?" said Antonio, with the deepest anguish: "do not you seem to know everything, or else to have learnt it by soothsay?

From The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck by Tieck, Ludwig

Beyond forests, beyond mountains, lived in the Crimea a certain kind woman named Lala, who could soothsay.

From Hania by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

This stuff, stirred by the komfo diviner, answers questions and enables man to soothsay.

From To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir