What is "palmist"

Usage examples of "palmist".

The adversity consisted of the stranded San Salvador Opera Company, a period of hotel secondstory work, and then a career as a professional palmist, jumping from town to town.

After that came pyramids and crystals, positive and negative ion generators, a grow-your-own-clone booth, a tarot reader, a palmist, a noodle stand, cheap body organs and cyberware, another noodle stand, soykaf, a Sidewalk Doc, and a group of masked men big enough to be orks, all wearing the black hoods, jumpsuits, gloves, and boots of the Sanitation Department.

I had my fortune told years ago, and the palmist said that if a certain line had had a bend in it I should have been hanged.

Ariel and Uriel, like Gabriel, were angels, but Catherine La Voisin was a professional palmist and clairvoyant during the reign of Louis XIV.

I was at Radcliffe a few of us went to a palmist, and she told me some amazing things, enough so that I looked her up, read her books, read a lot of other books, and the next year I went back and became her student.

An old palmist with an old beard and yellow teeth grabbed Abu by the hand, to croon over his lines.

I had dropped from the semireputable status of a psychic or a newspaper astrologer to the pathetic one of a palmist or a flying-saucer nut.

It occupied a small narrow building, and the age-old symbol of an open hand inscribed with the symbols of the palmist hung above its door.

For, like other professional palmists, every time he worked the Heart Line too strongly he immediately moved along the Line of Least Resistance.

These days, of course, there are thousands of party astrologers and palmists, and very few people who really understand the science deeply.

Lanargh offered a wider range of services than she had ever imagined, from palmists and professed witches all the way to esteemed phrenologists, equipped with calipers, cranial tapes, and ornate charts.

Jugglers and buskers performed for the sightseers, and a number of tarot-card readers and palmists sat at little tables talking seriously to clients.

Nicias was inundated with magicians, and it felt as if we were back in Sayana, seeing everything from fortune-tellers to palmists to conjurers to those who would sell you anything from a love-philter to a poison.

What you are then, to me and the average mind, is a mixture of clairvoyants, palmists, fortune tellers and aloof mystics.

Washington is the greatest place in the world for fakes of every kind--fake palmists, bum mind readers and phony psychists.