For the Clan of the Red Branch was wading in blood, and there were seers who beheld that bitter tide rising and spreading.
The Vedic seers were hardly less impressed with the sense of an orderly control in contemplating the energies around them.
It was easy to suggest that the Hebrew seers had been the teachers of the Greek; might not Plato, for instance, have learned of Jeremiah in Egypt?
Open the pages of the Cumaean Sibyl, ye pontifs; let wise Etrurian seersconsult the lightning’s flash, and the soothsayer search out the awful portent hidden in the entrails.
The wary seers who "told us so" had triumphed; and they exploited their intuition for what it was worth, or rather for a great deal more, since clearly it was not worth much.
They were silent; but hollow though time had branded their vaticinations the silence of the seers was not exactly golden.
Whatever the cause or hidden hand might have been which pushed forward two or three little ragamuffins to make seers of them, M.
John announced the sublime central truth that all the world's great seershave declared; God is in His world.
I think the seers attached to the royal household (cf.
The text itself further on proves this, when saying 'That Self is hidden in all beings and does not shine forth, but it is seen by subtle seers through their sharp and subtle intellect.
Let Moorish seers cultivate that frantic credulity: thy servant sees but in the stars worlds mightier than this little earth, whose light would neither wane nor wink, if earth itself were swept from the infinities of space.
But what was personal and incidental in the past, depending largely upon the genius and inspiration of seers and leaders, has now become a social movement, as wide as science.
Seers and poets have made poetry out of it for two thousand years.
It takes seers or surgeons to appreciate us--more of the same sort, etc.
For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered.
Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer unto his God, and the words of the seers that spake to him in the name of the LORD God of Israel, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel.
Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.
Hence you will observe that the Hebrew seers sometimes seem to have required music, as in the instance of Elisha before Jehoram:--"But now bring me a minstrel.
Consider the awful descriptions in the Old Testament of the effects of a spiritual presence on the prophets and seers of the Hebrews; the terror, the exceeding great dread, the utter loss of all animal power.
The prophets, who were called seers by the Egyptians and Jews, not only expressed themselves in allegories, but also represented by signs those events which they foretold.
That the bulk of mankind is ages behind the best of its poets and seers might possibly be explained by the fact that the bulk of mankind simply has not met their thoughts.
It is impossible for us to ignore the concurrent mass of human testimony therein recorded, the substantial and general truth of which has been vouched for by the prophets and poets and seers of all time.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "seers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
