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Example sentences for "tell fortunes"

  • Cup-tosser~, a person who professes to tell fortunes by examining the grounds in tea or coffee cups.

  • And we've learnt how to tell fortunes--really we have.

  • It is this ready intuition of feelings which, when it is raised from an instinct to an art by practice, enables shrewd old women to tell fortunes with so much skill.

  • This old man, with his equally ignorant wife, professed to tell fortunes by means of a tea-cup.

  • While I know and confess that there are a few ladies who profess to tell fortunes, find lost property, etc.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    butter over; further remarks; happy days; having received; high heaven; make themselves; pioneer life; scanty supply; speaking minorities; tell about; tell anybody; tell everything; tell fortunes; tell him; tell himself; tell lies; tell mamma; tell mother; tell the; tell what; tell whether; tell you; tell you right here; telling fortunes; telling stories; telling you