1 On this he groaned, and cried out, 'Alas, alas, then the old prophecy about me is coming true.'
2 So I drew back, and sheathed my sword, whereon when he had drank of the blood he began with his prophecy.
3 This was how they talked, but they knew nothing about it; and Alcinous said, "I remember now the old prophecy of my father."
4 I was superstitious about dreams then, and am still; and Catherine had an unusual gloom in her aspect, that made me dread something from which I might shape a prophecy, and foresee a fearful catastrophe.
5 The imagery of the psalms of prophecy soothed his barren pride.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 3 6 Now, as never before, his strange name seemed to him a prophecy.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 4 7 The house, thinly peopled and silent, gave distressing prophecy of failure.
8 But scarcely had she touched it, before the fairy's prophecy was fulfilled; the spindle wounded her, and she fell down lifeless on the ground.
9 So they ate, and after that they bargained how much the miller was to give for the fifth prophecy, until they agreed on three hundred talers.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE LITTLE PEASANT 10 He saw that this somber picture was not a fact of the present, but a mere prophecy.
11 And when the human beings listened to it, they secretly trembled, hearing in it a prophecy of their future doom.
12 One of his brother Masons had revealed to Pierre the following prophecy concerning Napoleon, drawn from the Revelation of St. John.
13 With that facility of triumphant prophecy which is one of the sources of strength in the French combatant, they divided the day which was at hand into three distinct phases.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—LIGHT AND SHADOW 14 He heard the hateful clank of their chains; he felt them cringe and grovel, and there rose within him a protest and a prophecy.
15 My mother does indeed sometimes send for a soothsayer and question him, but I give his prophecyings no heed.