Exempel på soothsayer

• The soothsayers answered that it was an ill omen for it meant the destruction of the city and the death of many.

• This stripped the future of its magic, to which all those succumb who turn to the soothsayers for enlightenment.

• It does not need a soothsayer to predict that the measure will soon come to considerable grief.

• He has examined the auguries, and listened to the soothsayers.

• I do not need to be a soothsayer to recount the problems.

• This would require the actuary to be a seer or a soothsayer.

• I hope that his forecasts and the soothsayers will be proved wrong.

• I hope that his outside soothsayers are a little more up-to-date than those his predecessor was wont to consult.

• He is a pleasant individual, who has been placed in his office, perhaps because of his personality, to act as a political soothsayer in the countryside.

• I think they are much more likely to be astrologers, soothsayers or conceivably oppositions promising not only the earth but the energy of the sun and the stars as well.

• Is not it really absurd to expect a judge—whatever a soothsayer may be able to do—to be able to assess whether a woman may get married or not?

• He said that we should bring to an end the soothsayers of slimming pills and magic potions and return to a sensible approach to our lives.

• An eager public, proferred such fantasies by men of great rhetorical skill, applaud these false soothsayers and turn savagely on the realists who would take away their sweet dreams.

• He begins to question himself about the prophecy of the soothsayer.

• According to soothsayers the knot had to be found and untied before the curse could be lifted.