Delphic predictions

Usage examples of oracles.

But what I could not, and probably never shall, understand, was the reason for which the Fathers, who were not so simple or so ignorant as our Evangelists, did not feel able to deny the divinity of oracles, and, in order to get out of the difficulty, ascribed them to the devil.

Her worthy father, who believed entirely in the infallibility of our oracles, had the curiosity to put the same question to both of us, to see if we should agree in the answer.

I confess candidly that I deceived them, as the Papa Deldimopulo used to deceive the Greeks who applied to him for the oracles of the Virgin.

But, although believing fully in my oracles, they were too kind-hearted to think them the work of the devil, and it suited their natural goodness better to believe my answers inspired by some heavenly spirit.

Delighted at hearing that oracles were not yet defunct, and satisfied that they will endure as long as there are in this world simpleminded men and deceitful, cunning priests, I follow the good man, who took me to his tartan and treated me to an excellent breakfast.

You speak like the Cumaean sibyls, or as if you were rendering oracles at your temple in Corinth.

I felt that my obligations to her were great, while she, in the goodness of her heart, was persuaded that she could make no adequate return to me for the oracles with which I furnished her, and by following which she was safely guided through the perplexities of life.

After dining, and discharging all the ceremonies and oracles which were necessary to calm the soul of my poor victim, I went to a banker and got a bill of a hundred louis on Lyons, to the order of M.

But I have never quite believed in fate, despite all the prophecies and oracles that shaped my life.

The last two Oracles had been old women with skin bleached white by years of darkness.

It was job enough keeping this business from the Oracles, who already had their suspicions, without having a potential super-Oracle loose in the city.

OF MILES away the Guild of Oracles had succeeded in turning Cook into a man, but they were far from pleased with the results.

True, I am one of the few female Oracles, but no one took me seriously until I chose this hypnad.

All the Oracles, given the opportunity, seemed bent on interrogating the interrogator.

Alexander was a fraud, a deceiver, but it sounds as if he thinks that Delphi and the rest of the oracles are just as bad.