As soon as the prophetess had taken her seat on the bed, she declared, "Last night it was revealed to me that you are all of you to unite with me in the battle with the devil, lest he should conquer Christ.
Thereupon the prophetess wrestled in spirit and overcame these devils and expelled them.
Presently the prophetess exclaimed from her throne on the bed, "The hour is come in which the conflict must take place, so that Christ may gather together His Church, and contend with anti-Christ.
Then the Prophetess turned and stood looking out over the throng through the thick, aromatic smoke from the birch-fire, and presently her clear voice rang through the deathly silence: "O People of the Evening Sky!
Truly, the Senecas had kept their Prophetess well provided; and now, before the snow of a not distant winter choked this pass, the place had been provisioned from the harvest against November's wants and stress.
The red acolytes came forward, and the slim Prophetess bent her head till the long, dark hair uncoiled and fell down, clouding her to the waist in shadow.
At the same instant the Prophetess rose to her feet, flung back her cowl, and looked Amochol steadily in the eyes from the shadow of her hair.
Never since the Atotarho covered his face from Hiawatha--never since the snakes were combed from his hair--has a Priest of the Long House dared to doubt the Prophetess of the Seneca nation.
And if this be true, and she has indeed become their Prophetess and Interpreter of Dreams, then this night she will be surely here to read their dreams for them.
Did not the Erie boast a Prophetess to confound us all?
Have we here an arbitrary connection made between striking natural events and a Divine Person throned in the heavens Whose existence the prophetess assumes, Whose supposed claim to obedience haunts her mind?
We need not weight ourselves with the suspicion that the prophetess reckoned Jael's deed the outcome of a Divine thought.
The office of the prophetess is to celebrate God's presence and excite in the dull souls of men some feeling of His majesty.
The seat of the Divine Majesty appears to the prophetess to be in Seir.
They consulted Huldah, the onlyprophetess mentioned in the Old Testament, except Miriam and Deborah.
The men of Orleans cried that Jeanne was indeed a prophetess and a deliverer sent by God, and henceforth followed her with a blind devotion which nothing could turn back or repel.
Charles resolved to give her mission a trial, and his captains agreed that perchance the company of an inspired prophetess might put heart into their dispirited troops.
The dumb prophetess did not communicate further on the subject; and after having received her bounty, she departed.
The prophetess seemed fully to comprehend that her symbolic representations were unintelligible, and no fitting place being at hand whereon they could be readily portrayed, she strove with the greater vehemence to explain her meaning.
He knows now," said Lady Gerard; and immediately the dumb prophetess was at her side.
Again the prophetess pointed to her own breast, and then at the bosom of the invalid.
The room settled down to a curious, stifling, nerve-racking silence while the prophetessgazed into her gleaming crystal.
Under the guidance of Raimond, the prophetess and champion, deserted it seems by man and heaven, enters a wood, where she is taken prisoner by a party of English.
The Wolfs Spring The name of Jette, a beautiful prophetess of the ancient goddess Herthe, is linked with the neighbourhood of Heidelberg by the following tragic tale.
By the same way came the prophetess of Soest to me and said, "Lookye, my son, did I not counsel thee well before that thou shouldst hide thy money outside the town of Soest?
How the huntsman disposed himself to pass his six months: and also somewhat of the prophetess Chap.
And now came into my mind what the famous prophetess of Soest had once said,[24] and so I burdened myself with yet greater cares.
Now, within a few days, news has reached me that these three doubtful nations are to be persuaded by an unknown woman who is, they say, the prophetess of the False-Faces.
Just at the time when the servant of the prophetessbrought out the materials for our repast, we observed, at a little distance, a singular looking being approaching us.
Their prophetess had been duly consulted, and the assistance of their divinity had been implored with great formality.
We afterwards learned, that a messenger had been despatched to a neighboring town, or settlement, to consult their prophetess in regard to the proper manner of disposing of us; and that she had directed them to send us to her.
We were conducted, through an inconsiderable place, to the town where the prophetess resided.
Nay, it is not I who shall speed you; nevertheless the Maid is not the only prophetess in this realm of France, and something tells me that we part this day.
Thus the word of the prophetess and the will of Fate were fulfilled.
For he had been told by the prophetess of Pytho that a man with only one shoe would come some day and take away his kingdom.
Phryne was at once acquitted, not from any prurient motives, but because "the judges beheld in such an exquisite form not an ordinary mortal, but a priestess and prophetess of the divine Aphrodite.
The judges, beholding as it were the goddess of love incarnate, and moved by a superstitious fear, could not dare to condemn to death "a prophetess and priestess of Aphrodite.
These sent for a prophetess to tell them what the end of their new colony would be.
To this must be added mythical descriptions like those of the prophetess of Herjolfsnes, the ghosts at Lysefjord the winter Thorstein Ericson died, and others.
In ancient times its water was used for sacred purposes by the prophetess and her attendants and all who came to consult the oracle.
When the facts of the case came to light, the prophetess was deposed from her office, and her chief adviser at Delphi had to take to flight.
Sends to Huldah the prophetess to inquire further of the Lord.
As in time of Judges, when Deborah wasprophetess (Judges iv.
Cassandra, the mad prophetess vowed to eternal virginity, to be his concubine, and consequently feels good-natured.
Here the Delphian Prophetess enters, bringing with her the tokens that were with the foundling when she first came upon him in the temple courts.
The prospective Prophetess appears and with one sweep with a sword severs a cock in twain from its head to its tail.
From a contemporary account of this we learn that the monarch's fate was predicted to him by an Irish prophetess or witch; had he given ear to her message he might have escaped with his life.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prophetess" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
