I make no doubt that she was endeavouring to get some favourable augury about the result of her love quarrel with young Ready-Money, as oracles have always been more consulted on love affairs than upon anything else.
They are the oracles of milkmaids and simple serving girls; and sometimes have even the honour of perusing the white hands of gentlemen's daughters, when rambling about their father's grounds.
In the first rank are those false gods of the gentiles, which were adored heretofore in several idols, and gave oracles at Delphos, and elsewhere; whose prince is Beelzebub.
The apostle in calling the Old Testament Scriptures the "oracles of God," clearly recognizes them as divinely inspired books.
And what if it be said that there are irreconcilable contradictions in this book which calls itself the oracles of God?
And not only this; the same apostles who submitted to the authority of the Old Testament as the oracles of God, themselves claimed to write as the oracles of God in the New Testament.
Much every way; first of all, that they were intrusted with the oracles of God" (Rom.
The Jewish church was the trustee and guardian of these oracles till the coming of Christ.
Harold made no reply; but his step, habitually slow, grew more quick and light, and this time his reason found no fault with the oracles of the Vala.
With all her persuasion of her own powers in penetrating the future, we have seen that Hilda had never consulted her oracles on the fate of Harold, without a dark and awful sense of the ambiguity of their responses.
O Hilda," he cried, "see henceforth my only Vala; let that noble heart alone interpret to us the oracles of the future.
For these two oracles of our Lord exactly correspond to each other as promise and performance.
It was immediately discovered in the Sibylline oracles that it was impious to send a Roman army to Egypt; whereupon the pious senate almost unanimously resolved to abstain from armed intervention.
He remained accessible only to the king and his servants, and gave forth to the king and through him to the people his oracles with reference to every important undertaking.
For the very oracles and omens that foreshadowed for you a clouded morning, promised with equal distinctness a bright and glorious evening.
Some, even of the common people, feared the consequences, anticipating the most disastrous results, in accordance with their superstitious veneration for the oracles of their faith.
But you forget that mine is a doomed life, that oracles and omens, signs and presages, have all conspired against me from my birth.
What response bring you," eagerly enquired the emperor, "from the burning oracles of heaven?
Much, in every way; first, because they were entrusted with the Oracles of God.
These Oracles of God promise interminable glories to Israel, to Israel as a community, a body.
To be born in it, to be baptized in it, is to be born into the sunshine of revelation, and laid on the heart and care of the Community which witnesses to the genuineness of its Oracles and sees to their preservation and their spread.
When they give us their oracles as if they were known truths, we are compelled to ask, How do you know?
For instance, one of the modern oracles of infidelity says, and his admirers incessantly repeat the grand discovery: "The writings of the Prophets contain nothing above the reach of the human faculties.
He then proceeds to examine in their turn the political, poetic, Popish, Mohammedan, and heathen oracles quoted by Dean Stanley.
The oraclesof the heathen are always immoral in their tendency.
The oracles of God begin with a prohibition of curiosity, pride, covetousness, and theft: "In the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
As to the heathen oracleswe have already spoken enough.
Not only was the need of an external revelation of some sort acknowledged by all mankind, but the insufficiency of the pretended oracles which they enjoyed was deplored by the wisest part of them.
The oracles of the heathen are always sources of gain to their prophets.
Serena had borrowed her magnificent necklace from the statue of Vesta; and the Pagans execrated the memory of the sacrilegious minister, by whose order the Sibylline books, the oracles of Rome, had been committed to the flames.
The manner in which this questioning of the sacred oracles is performed is serious.
All that could be done to hide these oracles was done, but it was found impossible to conceal the truth.
But still he enjoined them, when he brought the Hebrews out of the land of Egypt, to come to that place, and to offer sacrifices of thanksgiving there, Such were the divine oracles which were delivered out of the fire.
And further, why didst thou deliver oracles to him concerning futurities?
Idolatry did not cease, however; the oracles were still consulted, though surreptitiously, for permitting which Cynegius was said to have received a large amount of gold.
You have a pretty gift of parable, lady, as it should be with one who interprets the oracles of a goddess.
If any speak, it must be as the oracles of God;" much more to our own families.
If servants and others that live near together would converse and speak as the oracles of God, how holy, and heavenly, and happy would such families or societies be!
If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God," &c.
And never wish to, boy, for you only believe in oracles because you don't understand them, and in your short-sightedness call everything that is beyond your comprehension a miracle.
The death of Apis, and the unfavorable constellations and oracles weigh on his mind; his happy temper is clouded by the unbroken night in which he lives; and the consciousness that he cannot stir a step alone causes indecision and uncertainty.
Potions of all kinds were given her to drink, her illness was discussed and exorcised, the stars and oracles consulted, rich presents and sacrifices made to the gods.
The forest ascetics were credited with prophetic powers, and were resorted to by Hindu princes to obtain omens and oracleson the brink of any important undertaking.
The quack, on the other hand, is he who generalizes from the worst practices of the most vulgar theatrical journeymen, and has no higher ambition than to interpret the oracles of the box-office.
His study of the Holy Oracles now became a daily habit, and that with intense earnestness and prayer.
His veneration for the holy oracles appears through every page, by his close adherence to the text.
Here, as drawn from the holy oracles of God, we contemplate Hope, the helmet of salvation, without which our mental powers are exposed to be led captive into despair at the will of Satan.
Every Christian pilgrim, if he journeys aright, must be entirely guided by prayerful personal inquiries at the holy oracles as to his way to heaven.
Absolutism with the consent of the French nation has passed away forever, and never can be revived, any more than the oracles of Dodona or the bulls of Mediaeval popes.
Such were the thoughts, thoughts often made audible, which came spontaneously like oracles from afar, as I strode homewards with Hannah by my side.
In this case, if in no other, the oracles of Caligraphy are set at naught.
And the bare suggestion that there was room for such an improvement caused a prompt return to the lively oracles of Henry Thornton.
One need not always "commence with the Deluge"; and there is no occasion to consult the lively oracles of Mrs. Markham for the story of the dropped garter and the chivalrous motto.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oracles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
