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Sentences starting with prophecy

Prophecy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks. [5]

Sentences ending with prophecy

The arguments against woman suffrage have always taken the easy form of prophecy. [5]
Pilgrims, always prone to find prophecies in the Bible, and often where none exist, speak cheerfully and complacently of poor, ruined Ephesus as the victim of prophecy. [5]
This metropolis promised so well that the projectors tacked 'city' to its name in the very beginning, with full confidence; but it was bad prophecy. [5]
One verse he read resounded with prophecy. [9]
It sounded like prophecy. [5]
How wonderful is prophecy! [5]
And that night Pierre made an accurate prophecy. [11]
The Indian is open to prophecy at all times; argument may fail to convince him, but not prophecy. [5]
When the spirit of prophecy comes upon you, you merely cake your intellect and lay it off in a cool place for a rest, and unship your jaw and leave it alone; it will work itself: the result is prophecy. [5]
There are two kinds of prophecy. [5]

Short sentences using prophecy

Like prophecy! [5]

Sentences containing prophecy two or more times

Now and then, in this world, somebody's prophecy turns up correct, but when you come to look into it there is sure to be considerable room for suspicion that the prophecy was made after the fact. [5]
The fashion of delving out fulfillments of prophecy where that prophecy consists of mere "ifs," trenches upon the absurd. [5]

More example sentences with the word prophecy in them

She said I would live until those wars were forgotten--a prophecy which failed. [5]
Of course, I whet up now and then and flirt out a minor prophecy, but not often--hardly ever, in fact. [5]
He little imagined what a freight of tragic prophecy it bore! [5]
The horse was well enough, but the seat was narrow for three people, and the entire establishment had in it not much prophecy of Baddeck for that day. [4]
However, one prophecy was verified, at any rate. [5]
That one thing was this: How is the last sentence of the prophecy to be understood? [5]
Thus my brother was in great peril lest Ursula's prophecy should be fulfilled by his own fault. [10]
His conduct then was a prophecy of later years. [5]
Indeed your cheap-postage victory, achieved in spite of a quarter-century of determined opposition, is good and rational prophecy that you will. [5]
His every interest urged him now to believe in the prophecy made to him by Serapion, to-day for the third time, which foretold that he, the prefect, should mount the throne of the Caesars, clad in the purple of Caracalla. [10]
Naturally, everybody was troubled, for a prophecy is a grisly and awful thing, whether one thinks it ascends from hell or comes down from heaven. [5]
This was according to the prophecy which Joan made that day in the pastures the time that she said the rest of us would go to the great wars. [5]
And, tho' ashamed to speak of it, I told him of Stanwix's prophecy that I should pace the decks of a man-o'-war. [9]
For the last three days Paulette Dubois had turned a sorrowful face upon them, and with one hand upraised had spoken the prayer, the prophecy, the thanksgiving, the appeal of humanity and the ages. [11]
After carefully making these preparations she called Ledscha and repeated that the cords possessed the power of prophecy only on nights when the moon was full, and that she would use another means of looking into the future. [10]
One might think there was a touch of prophecy in that, and we will let it go at that; but to my mind it had its inspiration in those great men's accurate knowledge of the King's trivial and treacherous character. [5]
Serapion then repeated the prophecy, which came with such convincing power from the bearded lips of the sage that the prudent statesman cast his last doubts from him, and, exclaiming, "I believe your words, and shall press forward now in spite of every danger! [10]
Such had been the prophecy within him. [9]
We went to the main gate of the city before nightfall, with a hope in our minds, based upon that vague prophecy of Joan's Voices which seemed to promise a rescue by force at the last moment. [5]
This entrance to the infernal regions was frozen over the day I saw it; so that the profane prophecy of skating on the bottomless pit might have been realized. [4]
The prophecy of the gitana had verified itself, and the ill a fair woman had wrought a fairer woman bad conquered and abolished. [6]
Let us hope that the prophecy will be amply fulfilled. [5]
And even at that period he foresaw, with the prophecy of genius, the days of single-track congestion. [9]
Thus it was that Jock Hallowell's prophecy, so lightly uttered, came to pass. [9]
Mighty few books that come strictly under the head of literature will sell by subscription; but if Uncle Remus won't, the gift of prophecy has departed out of me. [5]
It is said that a certain professor was always very shy of "Samson's Ribs," for fear the prophecy might be fulfilled in his person. [6]
No one had taken the prophecy to heart which she made to the King; and for a good reason, no doubt; no one wanted to take it to heart; all wanted to banish it away and forget it. [5]
It will hardly take rank as prophecy, though certainly true forecast in it is not wholly lacking. [5]
Grafton shot a swift glance at me; and so much of malice and of hatred was conveyed in that look that with a sense of prophecy I shuddered to think that some day I should have to cope with such craft. [9]
The two are still in apposition, not yet in opposition, but the discerning may perchance read a prophecy in the salient features of the priest. [9]
The ambitious man's sovereignty lasted less than a year; still, the prophecy of Serapion was fulfilled. [10]
Every prophecy, every Sibylline text, every oracle must be false if the overthrow of that image could remain unpunished--if the destruction of the universe failed to follow, as surely as a, flood ensues from a breach in a dyke. [10]
It is the sacred bird, and the prophecy is come true. [5]
If her refusal roused his ire--if her father's prophecy and Philostratus's fears must be verified, that his rage would involve many others besides herself in ruin, then--But here her thought broke off with a shudder. [10]
A Mormon named Rigdon assumed the Presidency of the Mormon church and government, in Smith's place, and even tried his hand at a prophecy or two. [5]
Now that will remind you of an earlier prophecy of Joan's. [5]
Then, when this prophecy was fulfilled, and Burs Bey was Sultan, Tagri Verdi rose step by step to high honor, and had won many glorious fights as his Sovereign's chief Emir and Captain. [10]
There is no prophecy in our day but history. [5]
There is a prophecy in every seam, and its pockets are full of inspiration. [6]
I have a presentiment--the spirit of prophecy is upon me. [5]
To talk against pie and still eat it is snobbish, of course; but snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things. [4]
So the first part of the prophecy was then fulfilled--in fact, almost the entire prophecy; for, with Paris in our hands, the fulfilment of the rest of it was assured. [5]
They were not only learned in the history of the past, but they were the interpreters of the prophecy, and announced coming events with a confidence equal to that with which the weather-bureau warns us of a coming storm. [6]
That title brought old Stanwix's cobwebbed prophecy into my head again. [9]
That other class of wiseacres who twist prophecy in such a manner as to make it promise the destruction and desolation of the same city, use judgment just as bad, since the city is in a very flourishing condition now, unhappily for them. [5]
In the accomplishment of the events which his reverie played with, there was much that retroactively stamped it with prophecy, but much also that was better than he forboded. [8]
If the spirit of prophecy had not deceived Miriam, and the Lord had indeed commanded Hosea to wield His sword, how dared he resist, what higher position could earth offer? [10]
Next, a prophecy of Merlin's, more than eight hundred years old, was called to mind, which said that in a far future time France would be lost by a woman and restored by a woman. [5]
Congressman Fairplay's prophecy of "negligible" was an exaggeration, and one gentleman who had rashly predicted that Mr. Crewe would get twenty delegates out of a thousand hid himself for shame. [9]
The confidence, if not the spirit of prophecy, lasted down to a later period. [6]
And we are not afraid to say that we suspect the old gypsy woman, whose prophecy took such hold of the patient's imagination, has hit upon the way in which the 'spell,' as she called it, is to be dissolved. [6]
No, she was not afraid of any ordinary death, and an ordinary death was what she believed the prophecy of deliverance meant, I think, for her face showed happiness, not horror, when she uttered it. [5]
Just at this moment the Brazilian monarchy crumbled, and Clemens was moved to write Sylvester Baxter, of the Boston Herald, a letter which is of special interest in its prophecy of the new day, the dawn of which was even nearer than he suspected. [5]
He had a low forehead and a wide mouth and small eyes, and an internal capacity that was a prophecy of famine to his fellow-men. [4]
Richard's prophecy was likely to come true: she would defeat very perfectly indeed Frank's intentions. [11]
Even before they left Alexandria the plebeian prefect could see that Serapion's prophecy was fulfilling itself. [10]
In truth, the law of prophecy doth contradict the likelihoods, most strangely making the difficult easy, and the easy difficult. [5]
If we may judge by those that have survived, her prophecy of literary distinction for him was hardly warranted by anything she could have known of his past performance. [5]
While I write, it seems as if I saw again that poor little bearer of the first evil tidings, and heard once more the first shots which interrupted his prophecy with eloquent confirmation. [10]
Yet my future is threatened by a prophecy--such a hideous prophecy. [10]
Perhaps the trait is the survival of an era of peace on earth; perhaps it is a prophecy of the golden age of the future. [4]
As if in irony of man's sacrifice, the All Hail and the Master of Things permitted the fool to fulfil his own prophecy, and die of a sudden sickness in the coming-on of summer. [11]
How can Macrinus interpret the prophecy that he, who is already on the highest step attainable to us lower mortals, shall rise yet higher? [10]
This mode of intellectual action when found united with natural sagacity becomes poetry, philosophy, wisdom, or prophecy in its various forms of manifestation. [6]
Six different times, however, I suppose some infatuated prophecy-enthusiast blundered along and said, to the infinite disgust of Smyrna and the Smyrniotes: "In sooth, here is astounding fulfillment of prophecy! [5]
Among other powers, he quoted the father of Honora's schoolmate, Mr. James Wing, as authority for this prophecy. [9]
The sacred singer has chosen itself, as the oracle intended; the prophecy is fulfilled, and my life, my house, and my people are redeemed. [5]
But prophecy is greater than magic. [5]
But after the great coup whereby he had fulfilled Mr. Watling's prophecy and become the chief factor in our business world he began to show signs of discontent, of an irritability that seemed foreign to his character, and that puzzled me. [9]
How many more generations will pass before Milton's alarming prophecy will find itself realized in the belief of civilized mankind? [6]
Ever since the fulfilment of the prophecy, I have believed that Joan had the idea that her deliverance was going to dome in the form of death. [5]
It had an expression of sorrow that seemed a prophecy. [9]
But when she exclaimed that her prophecy had been fulfilled, and that Paula, was now his, his brow was knit as he replied, with gloomy regret, that though he had won the woman he loved, it was only to lose her again. [10]
Turning a corner, Eliphalet came abruptly upon a prophecy. [9]
The prophecy itself did not disturb me half as much as the fact that she had made it, as this new evidence that she was beginning to think for herself, and along lines so different from my own development. [9]
There in that court Joan's prophecy was set down in the official record at the hour and moment of its utterance, years before the fulfilment, and there you may read it to this day. [5]
Where did it come from into this miserable world, this heavenly ray, this pure gift out of the divine beneficence, this spotless flower in a humanity so astray, this sure prophecy of the final redemption of the world? [4]
But now Mrs. Colfax's conduct carried a prophecy with it. [9]
The spirit of charity came upon him too late, however, for the prophecy had already been fulfilled--the dogs had eaten her, and they "found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands. [5]
One of his brother Masons had revealed to Pierre the following prophecy concerning Napoleon, drawn from the Revelation of St. John. [2]
She burned to blot it forever from the book Oh, the bitterness of that day, which was prophecy of the bitterness to come. [9]
But he cannot be expected to throw himself into the water just at the right moment when the 'fair lady' of the gitana's prophecy is passing on the shore. [6]
There are ponderous archways down there, also, over which the destroying "plough" of prophecy passed harmless. [5]
This crime, if anything, might help him to the fulfillment of the Magian's prophecy. [10]
With flashing eye and grateful heart, and with hand uplifted in pledge and prophecy, she said: "Now and here I proclaim--" But she was interrupted by a visitor. [5]
The Duras was an ancient Indiaman with a high poop, which made my grandfather exclaim, when he saw her, at the remarkable fulfilment of old Stanwix's prophecy. [9]
It would not affect the prophecy in the least --it would neither prove it or disprove it--if these towns were splendid cities now instead of the almost vanished ruins they are. [5]
But time is a very elastic element in Geology and Prophecy. [6]
And yet in a sense it was prophecy. [5]
It was not a month after that that Sherman's prophecy of the quiet general who had slid down the bluff at Belmont came true. [9]
Old Probabilities has a mighty reputation for accurate prophecy, and thoroughly well deserves it. [5]
It was but a conditioned prophecy, yet we cannot doubt what was in Milton's mind when he sang, in one of the divinest of his strains, that "Hell itself will pass away, And leave her dolorous mansions to the peering day. [6]

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