WITCH OF ENDOR, a divining woman consulted by King Saul, who affected to call up the spirit of Samuel, who foretold his defeat and doom.
Struck by his son's quick intelligence in business matters, perhaps also instinctively divining that the battle would now continue on financial and economic grounds, he obtained him employment at the Ministry of Finances.
At the same time he could not again picture him by his side during their nocturnal walk towards the Boccanera mansion without shuddering, dimly divining what a frightful decision had been taken before that mansion's door.
From these defunct illuminati originated the suppositionary virtues of the magically-endowed divining wand.
But, alas, divining rods, like dogs, have had their day.
And he gallantly kissed Fanny's tiny hand, not divining that he had redoubled the melancholy of that too-generous child.
The divining faculty, peculiarly sharpened in him, apprised him instantly of an influence unfriendly to his project--a circumstance the more remarkable since he had not as yet actually stated any project.
There should be no difficulty in divining the cause of the former's distress.
By displaying thisdivining power He converts Nathanael, and He forcibly impresses the woman of Samaria.
From the very first we have seen indications that our Lord was divining the natures of men, selecting them with a forecast to their coming work, and fitting them to receive and promulgate His revelation of God.
So general is the conviction of the efficacy of the divining rod in discovering both water and the ores of calamine or zinc all over the Mendip, that the people are quite astonished when any doubt is expressed about it.
The inclosed extract from a letter which I have just received from a friend on the subject of the divining rod, will probably interest your readers as an answer to a Query which appeared some weeks ago in your excellent work.
The countess, divining his thoughts, said to him in a soft and feeble voice, "You thought to find me dying; you came to receive my last farewell!
And when this became known to the Samnites, they did not inflict any punishment upon these children, but divining the meaning of the incident declared that Belisarius would conquer decisively.
According to this hypothesis, the divining woman of Endor was preparing to practise upon Saul those tricks of legerdemain or jugglery by which she imposed upon meaner clients who resorted to her oracle.
Esther's inexperience prevented her from diviningmuch about this fine gray-haired woman, whom she could not help perceiving to stand apart from the family group, as if there were some cause of isolation for her both within and without.
The chief of hosts gave her rings and necklace, useful discourse, and a divining spirit: wide and far she saw o'er every world.
But thatdivining sense which leads a gambler, and which comes in flashes, was already failing him.
The ape he had bought from some captives who had returned from Barbary; and he had soon taught him the tricks which made people think he was really divining things.
Soon the show was in readiness inside, and every one gathered around Master Pedro and his divining ape.
The dachshund, divining something out of the common, had crept up to him silently, and was licking his hand.
In the mean time, the maid had run in haste to tell her mistress the marvels of the scene she had just witnessed, and Mrs. Warmington had gathered enough, without divining the whole, to rejoice her with anticipated triumph.
But the brave old man, at a glance diviningtheir purpose, leaped from his couch and, seizing his sword, threw himself upon it, and died as his assassins entered.
How many marvelous effects are related of the divining rod, sympathetic powder, phosphoric lights, and mathematical secrets!
In the ancients, this manner of consulting the demon by divining wands is known--the Greeks call it Rhabdomanteia.
If it was my ankles that pained me there might be something in going divining why they did, but it is not much to divine that I'm sore where they thrashed me.
Here's the divining ape and the show of the Release of Melisendra just coming.
The other stood watching her, perhaps divining a little of the cause of her agitation, and feeling, at any rate, that he could be satisfied for the present with his success.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "divining" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
