Prophesying

Examples

• If there's anybody ill, trust the women for prophesying that the person will die. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• At the end of ten years of prophesying, Muhammad found himself a man of fifty, and altogether unsuccessful in Mecca. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• If it's a jewel lost, trust them for prophesying that it will never be found again. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The friends of the French went abroad, wild with excitement, and prophesying the triumph of their Emperor. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The prophetic books of the Bible can be but specimens of the prophesyings of that time. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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