Crossword clues for fortune-teller
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n. (alternative spelling of fortuneteller English)
Usage examples of "fortune-teller".
And yet the police know as well as you or I that every Church charity garden-party has got its clairvoyante or its fortune-teller.
He had only diverted the wrath of the drovers by quickly claiming that he was a fortune-teller, not a gambler.
There was a secret path to it up the cliff, by which a trusted freedman of his, a man of great physical strength, used to conduct the disreputable characters-prostitutes, pathics, fortune-tellers and magicians-with whom he customarily passed his evenings.
Of all the fortune-tellers and palm readers and psychics that I've known in other carnivals, you're the first person I've ever met who actually has some ESP.
I idolized the genius of Ariosto, and considered him a far better fortune-teller than Virgil.
He even indulged in half a crown's worth of Zara, the Crystal Gazer, smiling a little to himself as he did so, remembering his own activities against fortune-tellers in his official days.
From that, I take it that most of your information about it is gleaned from television shows and fortune-tellers in county fairs.
Later the clause was invoked to bring in the dancers and the prostitutes, the gamblers and the fortune-tellers, and all the others who catered to the more basic needs and preyed on the gullibilities of this rough-and-ready pioneer community.
Jameson and myself have visited several of the fortune-tellers and practitioners of the occult sciences in which we had reason to believe Miss Gilbert was interested.
The smile remained wide as Herr Gerstmann explained our mission, though a less experienced fortune-teller than I could have seen the tightening cheek muscles that turned it from a social grace to a rictus of necessity.