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Soothsayers stake reputations on whether Moonlight will spoil La La Land’s expected sweep, or whether Denzel Washington will pip Casey Affleck.

From The Guardian • Feb. 24, 2017

Too often do reviewers remind us of the mob of Astrologers, Chaldeans, and Soothsayers gathered before the ‘writing on the wall,’ and unable to read the characters or make known the interpretation. 

From Biographical Notes on the Pseudonymous Bells by Brontë, Charlotte

By the name of Osiris," he said, "here be those Soothsayers of the Apura once again.

From The World's Desire by Haggard, Henry Rider

Soothsayers would have augured a stormy existence to the child who thus first saw light when "the frame and huge foundation of the earth shak'd like a coward."

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 by Various

Soothsayers and fortune-tellers were consulted to see if by their jugglery they could not reveal the word that had been hidden away so carefully so that none should know its secret.

From Sidelights on Chinese Life by Macgowan, J. (John)