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Unclassifieds 1 Paul de Denus 2011
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‘I feel as if the Fortune-teller was coming true, dear Pa, and the fair little man was turning out as was predicted.’
Our Mutual Friend 2004
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The Fortune-teller told him that within a year he would be returning to Europe by the same canal.
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In those piping days of peace he never suspected that it would be with the regiment on Active Service but when almost to the day and within the year, he passed through Port Said on his way to France, this one saying at least of the Fortune-teller was forcibly brought home to his mind.
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The Fortune-teller no longer possesses the singleness of mind or purpose necessary to a clear reading of the symbols he or she consults.
Tea-Cup Reading and Fortune-Telling by Tea Leaves, by a Highland Seer
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Fortune-teller was also inclined to balk; but she too will be here.
The Silver Butterfly Wilson Woodrow 1902
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There is a charming Gypsy Fortune-teller, whose wheedling voice and smile were caught and fixed in some happy moment in Seville; an Adoration of the
Castilian Days John Hay 1870
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Wizard, a Fortune-teller, a Cunning Man, and what not.
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
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Let us explain, what Margaret herself did not know, though vitally connected with the whole affair, that through the hocus pocus of the Fortune-teller and divination of the child, young Smith of No. 4 had discovered what he supposed to be a deposit of gold.
Margaret 1851
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“In what month were you born?” asked the Fortune-teller.
Margaret 1851
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