Sentence examples for could prophesy from inspiring English sources

Oracles, the Khampa said, could prophesy the future by peering into the lake.

Pro-Royalist publications ultimately produced parodies of these, including one which listed Rupert's dog as being a "Lapland Lady" transformed into a white dog; Boye was able, apparently, to find hidden treasure, possessed invulnerability to attack, could catch bullets fired at Rupert in his mouth, and could prophesy as well as the 16th century soothsayer, Mother Shipton.

As for designer labels, the furor has spread like a rash; not even Bateman could have prophesied the second coming of Gucci.

Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize for literature is something even he could not have prophesied with his pen when we were young musicians together in Greenwich Village.

He believed that history was a form of prophesy that could reveal patterns for the future.

Moreover, he could claim credit for prophesying the Decembrist liberal revolt that the new Tsar Nicholas I had to crush.

As the doubters prophesy, their coalition could well fall apart long before then.Still, at their serendipitously sunny press conference, in the garden of Number 10 on May 12th, the optimism was almost irresistible, and so (apologies) were the nuptial metaphors.

But the danger for Democrats is that dark prophesies of prejudice could be self-fulfilling.

Worrisome as that prospect has to be for the Saudis, the thing that could lead to the oft prophesied fall of the House of Saud is Saudi jihadists turning their attention back to their home.

Their misreporting, their distortions, their unattributed, unsourced tirades about governmental instability are infectious, and could very well become self-fulfilling prophesies.

They did eventually parade their empire in terms of some manifest destiny, and Virgil in his national epic, the Aeneid, could in retrospect make the god Jupiter prophesy for Rome "an empire without limit".