The soothsayers answered that it was an ill omen for it meant the destruction of the city and the death of many.
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This stripped the future of its magic, to which all those succumb who turn to the soothsayers for enlightenment.
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It does not need asoothsayerto predict that the measure will soon come to considerable grief.
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He has examined the auguries, and listened to the soothsayers.
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I do not need to be asoothsayerto recount the problems.
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This would require the actuary to be a seer or asoothsayer.
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I hope that his forecasts and the soothsayers will be proved wrong.
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I hope that his outside soothsayers are a little more up-to-date than those his predecessor was wont to consult.
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He is a pleasant individual, who has been placed in his office, perhaps because of his personality, to act as a politicalsoothsayerin the countryside.
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I think they are much more likely to be astrologers, soothsayers or conceivably oppositions promising not only the earth but the energy of the sun and the stars as well.
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Is not it really absurd to expect a judge—whatever asoothsayermay be able to do—to be able to assess whether a woman may get married or not?
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He said that we should bring to an end the soothsayers of slimming pills and magic potions and return to a sensible approach to our lives.
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An eager public, proferred such fantasies by men of great rhetorical skill, applaud these false soothsayers and turn savagely on the realists who would take away their sweet dreams.
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He begins to question himself about the prophecy of thesoothsayer.
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According to soothsayers the knot had to be found and untied before the curse could be lifted.
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