I neither will nor can prognosticate To the young gaping heir his father's fate.
I may safely with the little skill I have, quoth Pantagruel, prognosticatethat by the way we shall engender no melancholy.
You take it rightly, said Pantagruel, and it pleaseth me to see you foresee and prognosticate our victory by the names of our colonels.
The colours of the paper prognosticate the character of the coming year; if red prevails, there will be many fires; if white, there will be floods and rain; and so with the other colours.
Dreams of the sea, prognosticate unfulfilled anticipations, while pleasures of a material form are enjoyed, there is an inward craving for pleasure that flesh cannot requite.
Pictures appearing before you in dreams, prognosticate deception and the ill will of contemporaries.
Antonius' ship, sailing after Cleopatra to Egypt, the soothsayers didprognosticate that Pirrhus should be slaine at Argos in Greece, and Mar.
Yet, adopting the same lines of argument, I see no reason why cats should not prognosticate good as well as evil.
The long great rains for many weeks did prognosticate famine; but these three days past there is also a great change of weather; the Lord continue it.
Whilst the distempers of a relaxed fibre prognosticate and prepare all the morbid force of convulsion in the body of the state, the steadiness of the physician is overpowered by the very aspect of the disease.
If I prognosticate right, it is not the Emperor of Russia that ever will call for extravagant proofs of our desire to reconcile ourselves to the irreconcilable enemy of all thrones.
And like the note of the quail in Europe the note of this little bird in Celebes is believed to prognosticate the state of the harvest, foretelling whether the rice will be abundant or scarce.
The inconsiderable majority that appeared on the side of the administration, plainly proved that the influence of the minister was greatly diminished, and seemed to prognosticate his further decline.
He was intimately acquainted with the business of the house, and knew every individual member so exactly, that with one glance of his eye he could prognosticate the fate of every motion.
The presence of crickets in a house has generally been regarded as a good omen, and said to prognosticate cheerfulness and plenty.
A cuckold being called from the cuckoo, the note of that bird was supposed to prognosticate that destiny.
The weather to-day did not prognosticate any thing very favourable; the wind, though in light breezes, continued at NE.
The sudden loss of hair is considered unlucky, being said to prognosticate the loss of children, health, or property; whereas many consider it imprudent to throw it away, or to leave the smallest scrap lying about.
If your enemies be fighting, while you sit still or sleep, it is easy to prognosticate who will have the victory.
Abhor the presumptuous folly of those that use to prognosticate by their dreams, and measure their expectations by them, and cast themselves into hopes or fears by them.
Tanks or rivers were likely places for booty in the shape of resting travellers, whose death the appearance of the crow might portend; whereas in the other positions it might prognosticate a Thug's own death.
If the fowl eats the rice they prognosticate a good harvest, and if not the reverse.
It is considered a bad sign if a child bites its upper teeth on its underlip; this is thought to prognosticate illness and the child is prevented from doing so as far as possible.
The woman sits by the hole holding her cloth spread out, and if the fish in struggling jumps into her cloth, it is held to prognosticate the birth of a son.
To prognosticate medically according to this system a circle of numerals was required in the first place.
Under some circumstances, however, they were said toprognosticate many events advantageous to mankind (Pliny, Book 2, Chapter XXIV.
By their departure from temperate or cold climates they prognosticate the approach of winter, as their return heralds spring.
The women of Lapland make bonnets with its skin dressed without removing the feathers; but in Norway it is considered an act of impiety to destroy it, as the different cries which it utters are said to prognosticate fine weather or rain.
Dreams that prognosticate a good future are kept secret, but bad ones are published.
Winged termites issue in swarms in the rainy season and prognosticate a large catch of fish.
If Gnats swarm in the summer in globular masses, it is supposed toprognosticate a storm.
Small Spiders, termed money-spinners, are held by many to prognosticategood luck, if they are not destroyed or injured, or removed from the person on whom they are first observed.
