"Prophetic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to M. Venizelos's ambitious and adventurous temperament. Military considerations had little meaning for his civilian mind. Taking the speedy victory of the Entente as a foregone conclusion, and imbued with a sort of mystical faith in his own prophetic insight and star, he looked upon the European War as an occasion for Imperialist aggrandizement which he felt that Greece ought to grasp without ...
— Greece and the Allies 1914-1922 • G. F. Abbott
... Endymion, the very mouth is asleep: in his Sybil the very eyes are prophetic, and glance ...
— The Diary of an Ennuyee • Anna Brownell Jameson
... poems, and also because of the insult (however jocose) to the worshipful body of tailors; and the political sonnet for reasons which are plain enough, though the date at which I wrote it (not without feeling) involves now a prophetic value. In a MS. vol. I have a sonnet (1871) After the German Subjugation of France, which enforces the prophecy by its fulfilment. In this MS. vol. are a few pieces which were the only ones I copied in doubt as ...
— Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1883 • T. Hall Caine
... wealth would not be altogether for his daughter's good. He had talked in this way to Quarles. For all we knew to the contrary, conscience may have been pricking him, but the fact remained that he was prophetic. ...
— The Master Detective - Being Some Further Investigations of Christopher Quarles • Percy James Brebner
... I do recall that some of the girls annoyed me by their excessive attentions to unimportant ribbons, flounces, and laces. "How do I look?" seemed their principal concern. Only Alice expressed anything of the prophetic sadness which mingled ...
— A Son of the Middle Border • Hamlin Garland
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