Sentence examples for prophesied when from inspiring English sources

In "Émile" (1762), Rousseau prophesied, "When mothers deign to nurse their own children, then morals will reform themselves".

Jacobson may be writing in the great tradition of dystopian literature, but he takes a clever swipe at "what these writers gloomily and even hysterically prophesied". When Kevern visits the big city of Necropolis, there are no genetic horrors or scorched fields.

Such circles don't last forever, but it is a bold forecaster who will prophesy when this one will end.

Blunt also seemed to have visions of ruling the roost in the art world, when he prophesied that, when the great upheaval took place, there would be jam for all.

In an influential piece that appeared in Rolling Stone in 1972, Brand prophesied that, when computers became widely available, everyone would become a "computer bum" and "more empowered as individuals and co-operators".

"It had been widely prophesied that when my father got out of the White House, my so-called career would fold and the public would lose interest in plain Margaret Truman," she wrote in "Souvenir" in 1956.

They were almost mini prophesies when we wrote them, and they perform as well as they did.

The two of them despised the next brother, Cleve, a sensitive school-loving boy who dreamed of being a writer and fulfilled his brothers' prophesy when he discovers his homosexuality.

Our world today does not have strong beliefs in what the Ancients used to call "prophesies", when those who had the spiritual gift to foretell what will happen in the future would make what we call today "predictions" from our "experts" based on their "calculations".

A similar thing happened when I prophesied about the late President John Atta Mills (who died last year), but they turned me away," he said.

Johnny Herbert had warned of track congestion, and Damon Hill, who is looking more and more like a supply teacher at Hogwarts, proved his growing magical powers when he prophesied accurately that "we could end up in Q3 with the quickest cars sitting in the garage".