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Example sentences for "clairvoyance"

Lexicographically close words:
claimeth; claiming; claims; claires; clairs; clairvoyant; clairvoyante; clairvoyantly; clairvoyants; claith
  1. Through what financial clairvoyance the dear departed's trustee got her out, just in time, and, quite illegally but profitably, landed her in Standard Oil is not a part of this drama.

  2. In addition, clairvoyance had supplied the pretext and stupidity the chance.

  3. Swapna--dreamy state, or a condition of clairvoyance in the astral plane.

  4. The whole question hangs upon the reality or unreality of the existence of this inner-man whom clairvoyance has discovered, and whose odyle or nerve-emanations Von Reichenbach proves.

  5. That clairvoyance which is the gift of all rare intelligences, made her as conscious of all the bewildered thoughts which thronged the mind of Yseulte as though she saw them in the magic crystal of a sorcerer.

  6. And Dickens entered with dramatic clairvoyance into every secret of this Titanic mystery.

  7. All things with Mr. Hardy--even the facts of geology and chemistry--are treated with that imaginative clairvoyance that gives them their place in the human comedy.

  8. That sort of clairvoyance which generous souls have in detecting congenial spirits quickly put these two young men at ease with each other.

  9. Entering his private apartment, he was possessed by that mysterious power of clairvoyance through which one is made conscious of a presence that is neither seen nor heard.

  10. You can get a certain amount of clairvoyance by these means, but you are only expanding your physical sight, and working on centres of the astral body connected with the physical organ of vision, the eye.

  11. Until the discovery of hypnotism there was little to go on in conducting a scientific investigation, because clairvoyance could not be produced by any artificial means, and so could not be studied under proper restrictive conditions.

  12. It is on power of supersensory, or extra-sensory perception that what is known as telepathy and clairvoyance are based.

  13. For the dim clairvoyance lasted on, in many people, into times not far removed from the present.

  14. Previously they had allowed it to lie dormant, and had lived on what remained in them of the Atlantean clairvoyance and on the communications of their Initiates.

  15. No one is able to discover the facts of the unseen world without the clairvoyance which is synonymous with that higher vision.

  16. Here were oracle-sanctuaries which conformed to the various Atlantean oracles; here were people with the heritage of ancient clairvoyance as a natural gift, and others who were able to acquire it, with comparative ease, by training.

  17. In that case the student, instead of arriving in due course at adequate, tranquil clairvoyance by regular means, would run the risk of turning into a visionary and dreamer.

  18. Clairvoyance observes not only those changes in the future in which the earth alone takes part, but those also which take place in conjunction with the heavenly bodies in its environment.

  19. Man, at present, can attain to this degree of clairvoyance only through occult training, which will be treated later in this book.

  20. These were in strong contrast to the tempters who appeared to that unpurified clairvoyance which was left over from the Atlantean period.

  21. Her grandmother who believed in clairvoyance in children made the sign of the cross over the child's head, and-a painful silence fell upon the company.

  22. During the time spent in Austria Strindberg slowly recovered his mental balance, whilst his visionary powers and spiritual clairvoyance were in process of development.

  23. For a moment she had that odd clairvoyance that comes to persons who, by some quirk of fate, are compelled to think for themselves.

  24. And then that queer, blurry clairvoyance left her.

  25. Belief in vocational magic and clairvoyance is clearly not entirely confined to medieval days.

  26. The enthusiasm and ardor that went into the elaboration of the new clairvoyance of phrenology would have meant most valuable increase in our knowledge of brain physiology had it been directed exclusively toward further legitimate inquiry.

  27. The fortune-teller is far from being a romantic and vestigial institution; and the type of prophecy which medieval clairvoyance represents continues to provide many with a substitute for more rigorous and less exciting inquiry.

  28. And in his moment of clairvoyance Peter saw that these songs and stories were profoundly true.

  29. His own future developed under his eyes with the same swift clairvoyance that marked his vision of the ills of his country.

  30. Since this is so, the cultivation of the non-moral clairvoyance could only attain results in the lower regions of the astral world .

  31. Clairvoyance now made its appearance, which was but a different phase of magnetism, and Mesmerism was soon but indifferently practised in France.

  32. Under the guise of fortune-telling and clairvoyance the most nefarious atrocities are daily enacted, not only in the larger cities, but in the villages and towns even, throughout the country.

  33. I think those people who desire to gain the utmost good they can out of clairvoyance should be more ready to listen and learn, and less to cavil and to question.

  34. There is no reason why clairvoyance should not be developed into a science as rational as any form of optical research or experiment.

  35. Clairvoyance and clairaudience are as natural, when the spiritual faculties are sufficiently developed, as are the ordinary sight and hearing.

  36. Clairvoyance and clairaudience are considered as abnormal and phenomenal gifts, and as in no way conceivable, nor even desirable, as general and usual powers for every one.

  37. There was less scientific investigation of hypnotism and trance states as abnormal modifications of personality and far more interest in clairvoyance and spirit existence.

  38. She tried mesmerism and clairvoyance and heard rappings at night.

  39. Perhaps Mrs. Hawley-Crowles had likewise a slight trace of that clairvoyance of wisdom which so characterized the girl.

  40. She saw now with a clairvoyance which separated him from the mask which he had worn.

  41. Her powers were assuredly from heaven; and it was plain, also, by a natural sequence of reasoning, that she held some divine commission, of which her clairvoyance was the miracle in attestation.

  42. The Catholic saints followed the type of the apostles, and to heal diseases by supernatural means was a more orthodox form of credential than clairvoyance or second sight.

  43. I do not know whether mesmerism be false or clairvoyance impossible; and I don't wish to know.

  44. Indeed, if you were out of the question, I should not suffer Mr. Vigors to re-introduce all these mummeries of clairvoyance and mesmerism into the precincts of the Hill.

  45. Your clairvoyance makes my poor ability in that direction look quite insignificant.

  46. But then he is Herlock Sholmes--which means that he is a wonderful combination of intuition, observation, clairvoyance and ingenuity.

  47. With many persons this clairvoyance is confined to a knowledge of the death of their acquaintances or fellow-townspeople.

  48. For clairvoyance it must certainly be that inspires the will of an animal to open cells and cocoons at the very moment that the larva is either ready for more food or fit for leaving the cocoon.

  49. Here we can say no more than that their instinct has conducted them-- that the clairvoyance of the unconscious has allowed them to conjecture their way.

  50. If, then, in spite of all this, her egg closely resembles the others, this can only have come about through an unconscious clairvoyance which directs the process that goes on within the ovary in respect of colour and marking.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "clairvoyance" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    anticipation; apprehension; astrology; augury; clairvoyance; command; comprehension; conception; divination; foreboding; foreknowledge; foresight; grasp; grip; ideation; insight; inspiration; intelligence; intuition; lucidity; mastery; precognition; prehension; premonition; presage; presentiment; savvy; sorcery; understanding; wisdom; wit