The soothsayer placed the chafing dish in the middle of the room, presented the paper to the young woman who had spoken, and said to her-- "Write down what you wish to know.
When the two visitors came in, they found the soothsayer leaning her forehead on her hand, as though absorbed in thought.
Kuo was the son of a wandering soothsayer and a blind beggar-woman.
It was the self-same old soothsayer who had exhibited his enchantments to Ali.
The soothsayer foretold it all to me," said Ali, calmly, when the news was brought to him.
Thus was the second son of the Soothsayer restored to life.
This story appropriated by Scott was told of Tiberius, whose soothsayer made the prediction that his own death would take place three days before that of the Emperor.
Greatly incensed, he arranged for the death of the soothsayer when he should leave the royal presence after an interview.
I am," said he, "the best soothsayerthat there is.
He asked the soothsayerwhat the three Big Men were doing.
A wise soothsayer is the king," said Earl Erik to one of his warriors as he passed onward astern of the Crane.
In a few moments a piece of paper was thrown from behind the screen, and the soothsayer said that the petitioner's desire would be accomplished in the way he wished.
Of course you'll go and hear what the soothsayerhas to say about the velvet case?
Felicity feared the soothsayerwas getting rather bored with her, so she said-- "Thank you.
Bellerophon accepted the proposal, but before proceeding to the combat, consulted the soothsayer Polyidus, who counseled him to procure, if possible, the horse Pegasus for the conflict.
Thereupon, Calchas the soothsayer announced that the wrath of the virgin goddess could only be appeased by the sacrifice of a virgin, and that none other but the daughter of the offender would be acceptable.
Soothsayer of the Greeks during the Trojan war, 315.
When the first victim was slain, the soothsayer showed him that the liver had no head.
The others laughed at this, but the soothsayer Theodotus, who was conducting the sacrifice forbad Pyrrhus to swear, saying that Heaven by this portended the death of one of the three kings who were there met together.
Now Marcellus determined to ride forward with a few horsemen and reconnoitre it, so he sent for a soothsayer and offered sacrifice.
Astyphilus of Poseidonia, a soothsayer and an intimate friend of Kimon's, told him that it portended his death, on the following grounds.
He now proceeded to hang garlands upon a hind, and ordered his own soothsayer to offer it as a sacrifice, disregarding the claims of the local Bœotian priest to do so.
The soothsayer admitted that it was, on which Alexander inquired what signs he had observed in the sacrifice.
While he was performing a lustration of the army, as soon as he had sacrificed the first victim, the soothsayer said that within three days there would be a decisive battle with the enemy.
When he is met by Balak and his train and upbraided with his reluctance to come where honours and rewards are to be had, the soothsayer realises his peril and begins at once to prepare the Moabite king for disappointment.
There are deeper schemes than Balaam can form, the great far-reaching plans of the God of Israel, and by these, however unwillingly, the soothsayer of Pethor is now bound.
The soothsayer was forbidden on that day "to mutter in a secret place.
It was confidently expected that the soothsayer would at once undertake the important commission.
In the bright sunlight now pouring into the little room the soothsayer looked ghastly, her skin had turned a greenish white.
The soothsayer fixed her bright, beady little eyes on Sylvia's flushed face.
When her lamp was well alight, the soothsayer drew three chairs up to the round table, and motioned the two strangers to sit down.
For some moments the soothsayerstood staring into Anna Wolsky's astonished face.
The soothsayer again put a fat and not too clean finger down on the upturned face of a card.
The soothsayer departed, and the emperor laid the crystal goblet on a table opposite his couch.
The soothsayer presented himself, attended by the ugly dwarf.
I crossed the court, intending to consult the most famous soothsayer in the emperor's dominions.
I consulted a soothsayer before setting out, and the dove which he examined had no heart--a certain sign of evil.
To break the silence, one said to the other, "Well, Ramakon, I have heard that you are a great soothsayer and interpreter of bird sounds and lizard speeches.
At last one Soothsayer cut the knot by stopping at a different place in reading, "Samudra tire maranam kinchit.
Thus a Soothsayer when on his death-bed wrote the horoscope of his second son, and bequeathed it to him as his only property, leaving the whole of his estate to his eldest son.
The poor son of the Soothsayer who was now almost dying of thirst, and was even led to think that the messengers of death were near him, notwithstanding his firm belief in the words of his father let down his vessel for a third time.
Thus thinking the poor shepherd went on in that direction, promising to present the soothsayer with the calf if he found it there with the cow.
Bellerophon accepted the proposal, but before proceeding to the combat consulted the soothsayer Polyidus, who advised him to procure if possible the horse Pegasus for the conflict.
Early in the contest Eteocles consulted the soothsayer Tiresias as to the issue.
And after seven moons, one day a soothsayer looked at me, and he said to my mother, "Your son will be a statesman and a great leader of men.
There was once an Arab chief, who wished to consult a distant soothsayer as to the guilt of a daughter.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "soothsayer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: astrologer; augur; diviner; magician; oracle; prophet; psychic; seer; soothsayer
