Prophecy

Examples

• The shrewd prophecy is made that gas will be manufactured less for lighting, as the result of electrical competition, and more and more for heating, etc. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• How wonderful is prophecy! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Sherlock Holmes's prophecy was soon fulfilled, and in a dramatic fashion. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Truly it fulfils the prophecy so gracefully expressed in the verses quoted, and has become the common bond of union among the nations of the earth. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Experience would cease to be an adventure in order to become the monotonous fulfilment of a perfect prophecy. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• And the Brahmins caused the prophecy to be written over the gates of the shrine in letters of gold. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• If I may turn for a moment from description to prophecy, it is to say that this equilibrium will not hold for very long. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Raymond had spoken, thoughtless of her presence, and she, poor child, heard with terror and faith the prophecy of his death. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• But the cruelest habit the modern prophecy-savans have, is that one of coolly and arbitrarily fitting the prophetic shirt on to the wrong man. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Prophecy of Dr. Darwin in Eighteenth Century. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• But with the broadening of ideas that came with the Captivity, the tenour of prophecy broadens and changes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The fashion of delving out fulfillments of prophecy where that prophecy consists of mere ifs, trenches upon the absurd. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The work of Bryan has been to express a certain feeling of unrest--to embody it in the traditional language of prophecy. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• There are ponderous archways down there, also, over which the destroying plough of prophecy passed harmless. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• But the _Clermont_, in spite of all prophecies to the contrary, had traveled under her own steam from New York to Albany, and the trip was the crowning event in Fulton’s career as inventor. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Death on the cards, love in the stars, and the muttered prophecies of crouching hags, terrified at the omen of flying bat, of shrieking night-bird. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Those prophecies are distinctly leveled at the churches of Ephesus, Smyrna, etc. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I suppose Robert Moore's prophecies were, partially at least, fulfilled. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• But through some of the prophecies there runs already a note like the note of what we call nowadays a social reformer. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The prophecies of the French partisans began to pass for facts. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He is the more likely to attempt the fulfilment of his own prophecies. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Don't dwell so much on the prophecies, but read the clearer parts of the Bible. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The prophecies of Roger Bacon began to live in reality. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Our prophecies of change are subjective wishes or fears that never come to full realization. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• 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.
• With painful earnestness he questioned me concerning her prophecies with regard to him. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The first of Sergeant Cuff's prophecies of what was to happen--namely, that I should hear from the Yollands--came true on that day. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.

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