foretellers

"The foretellers have said for generations that Fenard shall not fall if the prefect holds the Great Keep."

The Towers of the Sunset Modesitt, L. E. 1992

They were all of that opinion, all the fine foretellers of the profit

The Imperialist Sara Jeannette Duncan

Many men, pretending to be prophets, or foretellers of future events.

Barnes New Testament Notes 1949

FERGUS -- If we listened to dreamers and foretellers the sword would never flash from its sheath.

Imaginations and Reveries George William Russell 1901

He meant old wounds, foretellers of weather whims.

The Starbucks Opie Percival Read 1895

The motives of the genii or angels, wise children whispering in the ears of the foretellers, seem to be inspired by the sculpture of Giovanni Pisano as seen in the pilasters of the pulpit of the Church of San Andrea at Pistoia.

Michael Angelo Buonarroti Charles Holroyd 1889

Christmas -- are foretellers of the weather for the new twelve months to come; each in its turn, by rain or sunshine or by heat or cold, showing the character of the correspondingly numbered month of the new year.

The Christmas Kalends of Provence And Some Other Provençal Festivals 1881

The prophets were preachers of truth, righteousness, and judgment to come, far more than they were predicters or foretellers.

Some Facts of Religion and of Life: Sermons Preached before Her Majesty the Queen in Scotland, 1866-76. 1823-1886 1877

God: much more men's teachings, however holy the teachers may seem. because, &c. -- the reason why we must "try," or test the spirits. many false prophets -- not "prophets" in the sense "foretellers," but organs of the spirit that inspires them, teaching accordingly either truth or error: "many Antichrists." are gone out -- as if from God. into the world -- said alike of good and bad prophets (2Jo 7).

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

In the large triangular compartments at the springing of the vault are sitting figures of the Prophets and Sibyls, as the foretellers of the coming

The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art Sarah Tytler 1870