"Divinatory" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... liberal, intellectual tendencies of the Reformation were not yet fettered in England with the new dogmatic strait waistcoat of a narrow-minded, melancholy sect. And Shakspere's views, which he has embodied in 'Hamlet,' were not in divinatory advance of his age; they were easily comprehensible to ...
— Shakspere And Montaigne • Jacob Feis
... superiority with regard to her intuitive faculty, and thus she is well equipped for exercising her divinatory powers. ...
— Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves • Cicely Kent
... it a pretty speculation, that a wood should be stronger to bind withal, being bruis'd and divided, than when whole and entire: The coals are us'd by painters, to draw with like those of Sallow: Lastly, for riding switches, and divinatory rods for the detecting and finding out of minerals; (at least, if that tradition be no imposture) is very wonderful; by whatsoever occult virtue, the forked-stick (so cut, and skilfully held) becomes impregnated with ...
— Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) - Or A Discourse of Forest Trees • John Evelyn |
