Prophets

Examples

• Horace, therefore, Juvenal, and Persius, were no prophets, although their lines did seem to indigitate and point at our times. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• In spite of very distinctive features of their own, these two teachers do in a manner arise out of, and in succession to these Jewish prophets. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The prophets danced, it would seem, somewhat after the Dervish fashion, and uttered oracles. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The sect of the Anabaptists appeared in Wittenberg in 1521 under three prophets, and broke out into insurrection in 1525. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Usurpers, rebellious generals, and false prophets seemed to have vanished from the Moslem dominions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• That is what mighty cities declare; and the children of the gods, who were their poets and prophets, bear a like testimony. Plato. The Republic.
• He had been one of the French prophets, and could act their enthusiastic agitations. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• BOOK IV JUDEA, GREECE, AND INDIA XXI THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES AND THE PROPHETS[157] § 1. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They found out prophecies of the crucifixion in the prophets--the Gospel of Matthew is particularly insistent upon these prophecies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Rebecca again looked forth, and almost immediately exclaimed, Holy prophets of the law! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• What is clearly apparent is that the teaching of Jesus of Nazareth was a _prophetic teaching_ of the new type that began with the Hebrew prophets. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• More than that, there are four half-length figures of prophets, two above and two below the larger pictures. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Like Balaam and other unwilling prophets, the agents seem moved by an inner compulsion to say and do their allotted parts whether they will or no. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.

Typist: Sharif