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  • —Quaker prophecy Philadelphia, 1793.†   (source)
  • Astrological prophecy never held much interest or credibility for him, but he knew there were those in the Church who followed it very closely.†   (source)
  • 'I'm not making prophecies,' said Harry.†   (source)
  • And if it were an indication of some fell deed or prophecy, he'd have the girl hanging by nightfall.†   (source)
  • Though it wasn't exactly prophecy, Horace was right about one thing: nobody recognized me.†   (source)
  • The stallion is the khal of khals promised in ancient prophecy, child.†   (source)
  • But tonight she was addressing her prophecy and greetings to Okonkwo, and so everyone in his family listened.†   (source)
  • From that day on Mohammed thought of little else but the fulfillment of that prophecy.†   (source)
  • It was Rodolphus [estrange, Bellatrix's loyal husband, who on return from Azkaban told me who I was and revealed the prophecy he thought I was destined to fulfill.†   (source)
  • Prophecy runs in my family: will you permit me to read your palm?†   (source)
  • * The way Canadians select hockey players is a beautiful example of what the sociologist Robert Merton famously called a "self-fulfilling prophecy", a situation where "a false definition, in the beginning ...evokes a new behavior which makes the original false conception come true."†   (source)
  • Prophecies of revenge, spoken in a wretched language only he knew, rolled from his tongue.†   (source)
  • The caterpillars' prophecies were always so vague.†   (source)
  • In order to fulfill the prophecy, she must voluntarily climb to a cliff above the Big River and from there jump to her death onto the rocks below.†   (source)
  • Failure evolved into a self-fulfilling prophecy.†   (source)
  • I paid him no mind, but not long afterward his prophecy came true.†   (source)
  • His parents, fearing the terrible prophecy that he would kill his father and marry his mother, have him taken out to the country to be killed.†   (source)
  • John had been exiled to the island of Patmos, where an angel visited him and commanded him to write down a series of prophecies to various churches.†   (source)
  • And remember the prophecy, he added.†   (source)
  • Later, these musings about fire would come to seem like prophecy.†   (source)
  • I am prone to let the doctors' prophecy rest and keep my thoughts to myself.†   (source)
  • She had been thinking of her mother for most of the five hours Jack had been gone, her mother's prophecy that Jack would never come to anything.†   (source)
  • We call prophecies like these Doomsday prophecies.†   (source)
  • One was yellow with THANK YOU JESUS FOR LOVING ME written in big letters; another said PROPHECIES FULFILLED and was covered with coins made of tinfoil.†   (source)
  • Self-fulfilling prophecy, I think.†   (source)
  • They had also grown accustomed to the youngest daughter's prophecies.†   (source)
  • If anything, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.†   (source)
  • I have no doubt about the prophecy of the golden carp.†   (source)
  • But the lucidity of her old age allowed her to see, and she said so many times, that the cries of children in their mothers' wombs are not announcements of ventriloquism or a faculty for prophecy but an unmistakable sign of an incapacity for love.†   (source)
  • It's the self-fulfilling prophecy of madness.†   (source)
  • He slowed but didn't stop, taking time only to note a few of the titles, including one about the prophecies of Michel de Nostredame.†   (source)
  • Zoey, you have never before manifested an affinity for prophecy or visions.†   (source)
  • Only this time, these prophecies seemed more founded.†   (source)
  • Prophecy.†   (source)
  • He was writing a book on prophecy and rattled on about it as they all sat in the living room.†   (source)
  • He condemned the folks who got creative with faith, like Marcus and his followers, who spoke in prophecies and had visions of a feminine divinity clothed in the letters of the Greek alphabet.†   (source)
  • Having great respect for the druid's councils, but ignorant of the latest prophecy, the king relented, and Cuchulain ran off to the smithy.†   (source)
  • They say the birth song can be a prophecy, for sure.†   (source)
  • They had the power of prophecy and clairvoyance.†   (source)
  • It may be prophecy.†   (source)
  • A weak rabbit who can't hope to get far by fighting sometimes tries to make himself important by other means and prophecy is a favorite.†   (source)
  • Had they overheard a prophecy?†   (source)
  • And it may gratify you to bring word to Mompellion of how thoroughly God has fulfilled his prophecies regarding my family.†   (source)
  • Like a self-fulfilling prophecy.†   (source)
  • A few minutes later Mike Strank's dark prophecy came true.†   (source)
  • The half-vampire, half-human, ruling-over-vampirekind, enslaving-the-human-race subject of prophecy that Elysia had been watching out for for centuries.†   (source)
  • I'd hoped the Augurs had, at some point in time, expanded on their original prophecy—perhaps even described what the Aspirants should expect.†   (source)
  • The shades traveling to the underworld and those summoned back by sacrifice to provide prophecies were said to stop on their way to speak with him.†   (source)
  • As he carefully unfolded the paper, he knew that the Theorem's prophecy had been fulfilled.†   (source)
  • When she launched into prophecies of eternal damnation, he told her that God was my judge, not they.†   (source)
  • Still it was not those illnesses or even the ice that marked the beginning of the trouble, that self-fulfilled prophecy that Shadrack carried on his tongue.†   (source)
  • Our fate is to become one, and yet many-This is not prophecy, but description.†   (source)
  • Burton certainly agreed, but felt in an odd way that his prophecy had come true.†   (source)
  • It's so inevitable it became a self-fulfilling prophecy.†   (source)
  • Thanks for your prophecy.†   (source)
  • She makes pronouncements that Ivanito doesn't understand, stays up all night hearing prophecies in her head, forgives her father and ex-husband long lists of past trespasses.†   (source)
  • "Sounds like the old self-fulfilling prophecy to me," Kate said.†   (source)
  • "And I wonder how the prophecy will work out," said Aravis, "and what the great danger is that you're to save Archenland from."†   (source)
  • "How convenient," Kessell mused, wondering if the subject of his dream had been a coincidence or a prophecy.†   (source)
  • Self-fulfilling prophecies, you think?†   (source)
  • The killing took place during a lunar cycle known as the ides, fulfilling a prophecy by a local soothsayer.†   (source)
  • The prophecy she'd spoken soon after we'd been turned into vampires haunted me.†   (source)
  • Drained by the arduous interrogation, blinded by exhaustion and her abaya, Natalie could think of no reason to doubt the old preacher's prophecy.†   (source)
  • Prophecy's sort of a waste of time, really.†   (source)
  • He shrank away from it as though it were a manifestation of virulent prophecies scribbled like obscene graffiti on the walls of holy places.†   (source)
  • This prophecy is underwritten by the tendency of the rich to do this already.†   (source)
  • These lines were writ By Morgan, free, Who shall, the day he dies, See this prophecy.†   (source)
  • But I allowed myself to plunge on toward Coney Island, thus making sure to help fulfill Sophie's prophecy about the three of us: that we would become "the best of friends."†   (source)
  • It was like a curious fulfilment of Father Huismans's prophecy about the retreat of African Africa, and the success of the European graft.†   (source)
  • Mentally, she's always in some drizzly kirk of her own inheriting: and I'm in some Doric temple—clouds tearing through pillars—eagles bearing prophecies out of the sky.†   (source)
  • Either Preacher Henry was too old, or the Afro-Repose congregation had tired of his scolding and awful prophecies, for he no longer preached except on those Sundays when Afro-Repose's new minister, a light-skinned college graduate, was out of town.†   (source)
  • That, of course, is true, but all the same, Yurochka, believe it or not, those who know have seen the book, the Mason's prophecies, one hundred and forty years it's been lying under a stone, and now, it's my considered opinion, Yurochka, we've been sold down the river, sold for a song.†   (source)
  • Oh, I know those prophecies as well as the back of my hand-only nothing is here to warn me when it is now.†   (source)
  • His prophecy was unheeded.†   (source)
  • Roy had been in trouble before, but this new trouble seemed to be the beginning of the fulfillment of a prophecy.†   (source)
  • Surely you don't disbelieve the prophecies, because you had a hand in bringing them about yourself?   (source)
    prophecies = supernaturally obtained predictions of the future
  • Before long, so great was his speed, they could see him as a spark of fire rushing towards them and growing ever huger and more bright, and not the most foolish doubted that the prophecies had gone rather wrong.   (source)
    prophecies = predictions of the future
  • I'm sure it's coming," he said, rising from the chair, adding within the space of a few minutes his prophecy of the long-playing record to that of the Jewish literary renaissance.†   (source)
    prophecy = prediction of the future
  • His book—the work of an American professor —of religion—is brief in length but wise and far-seeing in its final dimensions (the.subtitle "Mass Death and the American Future" may give an idea of its ambitious—and chilling—attempt both at prophecy and a historical synthesis), and there is no room here to do justice to its full power and complexity, or to the moral and religious resonances it manages to convey; it will surely remain one of the essential handbooks of the Nazi era, a terrifyingly accurate necropsy and an urgent consideration of our own uncertain tomorrows.†   (source)
  • Even when she was not channeling prophecies, Rachel was a wise young lady.†   (source)
  • Not all of us are the subject of terrible prophecies?†   (source)
  • He's worrying about...self-fulfilling prophecy, I suppose you could say.†   (source)
  • Where were you a few weeks ago when we battled to retrieve the prophecy for the Dark Lord?†   (source)
  • The — the prophecy...the prediction...Trelawney...†   (source)
  • "The prophecy did not refer to a woman," said Dumbledore.†   (source)
  • You understand there's no such thing as a little death prophecy, right?†   (source)
  • Because whether or not you are the child of the prophecy, Kronos thinks you might be.†   (source)
  • I learned about millennialist prophecy and convinced myself that the world would end in 2007.†   (source)
  • It is pleasant to think that Bomoko understood the prophecy in his words: "Institutions endure."†   (source)
  • We call prophecies like these prophecies of redemption.†   (source)
  • The prophecy was hot with the heat of his clutching hand as he held it out.†   (source)
  • And so the golden carp sent them a prophecy.†   (source)
  • Everyone at church had read the prophecies; they knew the Days of Abomination were coming.†   (source)
  • Newton was deep into numerology, prophecy, and astrology, but what does—†   (source)
  • Part of a prophecy I had years ago ...well, some of the lines make sense to me, now.†   (source)
  • I heard you in the woods....Were you—were you speaking a prophecy?†   (source)
  • I wasn't sure what she'd do for the "Great Prophecy?†   (source)
  • "In terms of prophecy," Teabing said, "we are currently in an epoch of enormous change.†   (source)
  • SCORPIUS: But if the prophecy is inevitable why are we here trying to influence it?†   (source)
  • The prophecy was clear: The bane of Olympus shows the trail.†   (source)
  • It was Snape who had carried the news of the prophecy to Voldemort.†   (source)
  • I had a bad feeling the prophecy was connected to that.†   (source)
  • Father told us Tata Kuvudundu conducts the sin of false prophecy.†   (source)
  • Marley fulfilled the prophecy, committing the ultimate Dog Beach heresy.†   (source)
  • Do you believe them to be the basis of the prophecy?†   (source)
  • "It's the Great Prophecy, isn't it?" a girl called out.†   (source)
  • That prophecy was for a different Apollo!†   (source)
  • We don't even know if the prophecy is about you.†   (source)
  • I remembered the words of the prophecy: The Titan's curse must one withstand.†   (source)
  • Because of your so-called Great Prophecy.†   (source)
  • GINNY: The best way to break the prophecy is not to kill Harry Potter.†   (source)
  • I thought about the prophecy made at Half-Blood Hill, what seemed like a million years ago.†   (source)
  • I mean ...if we're three of the ones from the Great Prophecy, who are the others?†   (source)
  • The Norns, or some other weird prophecy gods, had interwoven her fate with ours.†   (source)
  • My Lady, when one has lived with prophecy for so long, the moment of revelation is a shock.†   (source)
  • That glass ball that smashed wasn't the only record of the prophecy.†   (source)
  • I know the prophecy, Hekate snapped, her dress now shot through with red and black veins.†   (source)
  • Percy, I didn't know who the prophecy was talking about.†   (source)
  • 'But then ...but then, why was it my name on the prophecy and not Neville's?'†   (source)
  • If this prophecy is about me, that's two more years.†   (source)
  • We're the first of the seven who have to gather for the Great Prophecy.†   (source)
  • I remembered Hearthstone's prophecy: Blitzen.†   (source)
  • I tried to convince myself that its prophecy had come to completion.†   (source)
  • Before Voldemort curses himself she's going to kill you and so break the prophecy and ...†   (source)
  • The current whereabouts of the prophecy, if it exists, are unknown, although{ctd.†   (source)
  • Maybe if you told me the last line of the prophecy, it would help.†   (source)
  • I thought about a snippet of prophecy I'd heard in the grove: something about Indiana.†   (source)
  • The two that are one and the one that is all the very first prophecy Abraham speaks of.†   (source)
  • How long did it take for them to tell you your prophecy, Percy Jackson?†   (source)
  • 'The prophecy's smashed,' Harry said blankly.†   (source)
  • Thus was the prophecy made true that the Lisan al-Gaib might be both dead and alive.†   (source)
  • This kid in the prophecy ...he or she couldn't be like, a Cyclops?†   (source)
  • Now, Potter, either give us the prophecy, or watch your little friend die the hard way!†   (source)
  • Chiron ...your prophecy from the Oracle ...it was about Kronos, wasn't it?†   (source)
  • Rachel leaned forward and steepled her fingers, as she did when she spoke a prophecy.†   (source)
  • I folded up the prophecy and shoved it into my pocket.†   (source)
  • He's tricked us again, given himself another chance to control the prophecy.†   (source)
  • She's not trying to bring about her prophecy—she's trying to prevent the big one.†   (source)
  • What did the prophecy say exactly, my dear?†   (source)
  • The prophecy says at least two of you will die.†   (source)
  • Dee knew of the famous prophecy from the Book of Abraham the Mage.†   (source)
  • Relax, It's Just a Little Death Prophecy†   (source)
  • "But," spluttered Harry, "but you said the prophecy means —"†   (source)
  • What of the harmonics inherent in the act of prophecy?†   (source)
  • Faintly scrawled words underneath it read: PROPHECY?†   (source)
  • DELPHI: No. To fulfill the prophecy, this has to be you, not a puppet of you.†   (source)
  • But, Percy, this means the prophecy might not be about you.†   (source)
  • I wondered if I was looking at prophecies that had come true.†   (source)
  • And she said: "You spoke of your Reverend Mother ....and I've heard words of legend and prophecy.†   (source)
  • For now, it is our only source of prophecy.†   (source)
  • And the prophecy said we'd cause death if we unleash her rage.†   (source)
  • It's got something to do with your prophecy.†   (source)
  • Nicholas Flamel was the immortal of the prophecy.†   (source)
  • There was this prophecy that said when I turned sixteen, bad things would happen.†   (source)
  • With a sudden chill, I remembered the words of the prophecy: the child of Athena's final stand.†   (source)
  • But the prophecy caused Lord Voldemort to mark you as his equal.†   (source)
  • And why did he want to steal a prophecy about me?†   (source)
  • SCORPIUS: Wasn't aware that there was a prophecy, what prophecy?†   (source)
  • I had a feeling she was thinking about her prophecy.†   (source)
  • He believed that in killing you, he was destroying the danger the prophecy had outlined.†   (source)
  • Let us hope the prophecy does not mean what I think.†   (source)
  • "The Mahdi will be aware of things others cannot see," went the prophecy.†   (source)
  • Either way, I doubted we could stop the prophecy.†   (source)
  • He knew the prophecy had been made, though he did not know its full contents.†   (source)
  • Like that prophecy in Latin back at camp, or that dream about the wolf.†   (source)
  • Yet I reached out with all my willpower and sought the voice of prophecy, drawing it to me.†   (source)
  • Remember the prophecy: the two that are one, the one that is all.†   (source)
  • Kronos had done it to bring another chess piece into play-another chance to control the prophecy.†   (source)
  • "Dionysus is calling a council of cabin leaders to discuss the prophecy," she said.†   (source)
  • I thought about the line in Annabeth's prophecy: You shall rise or fall by the ghost king's hand.†   (source)
  • I mean, I knew Chiron had received a prophecy from the Oracle many years ago.†   (source)
  • IJAZ: prophecy that by its very nature cannot be denied; immutable prophecy.†   (source)
  • Piper whispered to Rachel, "What's she talking about—the Great Prophecy?†   (source)
  • The book you lost I am also the Guardian who appears in the prophecies in the Book, Flamel snapped.†   (source)
  • He had not told Ron, Hermione or anyone else what the prophecy had contained.†   (source)
  • Ho you think every prophecy in the Hall of Prophecy has been fulfilled?†   (source)
  • Oh, yes, I hear you critics out there: You're the god of prophecy, Apollo.†   (source)
  • And on them, written in fluorescent paint, a prophecy.†   (source)
  • This idiot son of Poseidon cannot be allowed to be the child of the prophecy?'†   (source)
  • I still hope you are not the child of the prophecy, Percy.†   (source)
  • He dreams with the Fremen—of prophecies and messiahs.†   (source)
  • When Chiron first learned about Thalia, he assumed she was the one in the prophecy.†   (source)
  • The prophecy had again flown to the tips of Harry's fingers but he had managed to cling on to it.†   (source)
  • I'd heard it speak prophecies twice before.†   (source)
  • DELPHI: You're mistaken, child, prophecies are the future.†   (source)
  • I guess you're right ....Or maybe the prophecy won't happen for years.†   (source)
  • Tell me the prophecy you heard in the grove.†   (source)
  • I don't know how, but I know that prophecy.†   (source)
  • You say you knew Abraham you know then how accurate his prophecies and foretellings were.†   (source)
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