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Example sentences for "prophesies"

Lexicographically close words:
prophecies; prophecy; prophecying; prophesie; prophesied; prophesieth; prophesy; prophesying; prophesyings; prophet
  1. Still the sweet concordant brotherhood of these morning hours witnesses what Christian love can do, and prophesies what shall yet be and shall not pass.

  2. His first convert was to him the first drop that predicts the shower, the first primrose that prophesies the wealth of yellow blossoms and downy green leaves that will fill the woods in a day or two.

  3. O fearful heart and troubled brain Take hope and strength from this,-- That Nature never hints in vain, Nor prophesies amiss.

  4. Next Odysseus lies in wait and catches Helenus, who prophesies as to the taking of Troy, and Diomede accordingly brings Philoctetes from Lemnos.

  5. Then Alexandrus builds his ships at Aphrodite's suggestion, and Helenus foretells the future to him, and Aphrodite order Aeneas to sail with him, while Cassandra prophesies as to what will happen afterwards.

  6. That we gather, each into himself, the curious dual power and Janus-faced majesty in mischief of the prophet that prophesies falsely, and the priest that bears rule by his means (Letter VIII.

  7. Daniel prophesies of the last judgment in such a way as to indicate that Antichrist shall first come, and to carry on his description to the eternal reign of the saints.

  8. I should be obliged to use many words in explaining all that Joel prophesies in order to make clear those that pertain to Christ and the Church.

  9. Another illustration of the hopes which gathered round this image is found in the great psalm which prophesies of the true King of Peace, in language too wide for any poetical licence to warrant if intended only to describe a Jewish king (Ps.

  10. Love prophesies only a surer, diviner friendship, crowned with the dignity and composure of God.

  11. Jeremias Chapter 37 Jeremias prophesies that the Chaldeans, who had departed from Jerusalem, would return and burn the city.

  12. Jeremias Chapter 32 Jeremias by God's commandment purchases a field of his kinsman: and prophesies the return of the people out of captivity: and the everlasting covenant God will make with his church.

  13. There our Western and modern imagination may fail to follow him, especially when he includes reptiles in the regeneration, and prophesies of adders and lizards as the playthings of children.

  14. He prophesies the redemption of all nature as well.

  15. Science shows the present, the positive; Art prophesies the future, the possible, though stammeringly and obscurely.

  16. Up to those Prophets, which now gladly see Their Prophesies growne to be Historie.

  17. It is in Gildas and Nennius' Historia Britonum that we find the first mention of the legendary colonization of Britain and Ireland by refugees from Troy, and of the exploits of Arthur and the prophesies of Merlin.

  18. Dante converses with one of these spirits, who, after describing his own misdeeds, prophesies in regard to the future of Florence.

  19. Footnote 7: The soul, says Aristotle, when on the point of taking its departure from the body, foretells and prophesies things about to happen.

  20. Homer affords two instances of a similar kind: thus, Patroclus prophesies the death of Hector (Il.

  21. Again, Hector in his turn prophesies the death of Achilles by the hand of Paris (Il.

  22. A veil is on the face of Truth: She prophesies behind a cloud; She ministers, in robes of ruth, Nocturnal rites, and disallowed.

  23. The child of Grace his hands puts forth, And prophesies of things to come.

  24. Some people maintain that the +League of Nations+ is diametrically opposed to the will of God, expressed in the prophesies of the Bible; that there will be no end of wars to the very end of the world.

  25. In fact, some of the prophesies of the Old Testament we could not explain, save in this way.

  26. If not all the prophesies of the Bible, at least a great many can be explained conditionally.

  27. He answers with a paradox of conscious power, which commands a seeming impossibility, and therein prophesies endowment that will make it possible.

  28. But he who prophesies speaks to men words of edification, encouragement and comfort.

  29. And, in fact, the man who prophesies is superior to him who speaks in `tongues,' except when the latter can interpret in order that the Church may get a blessing.

  30. He who speaks in an unknown tongue does good to himself, but he who prophesies does good to the Church.

  31. In spite of all defeats, in spite of all disgrace and distress, he prophesies a new spring for her and calls the poet blessed who may then win for her "the jewel of poetry.

  32. We Americans should look for the great photoplay of to-morrow, that will mark a decade or a century, that prophesies of the flags made one, the crowds in brotherhood.

  33. Let him therefore have a care how he prophesies and prays.

  34. Sigurd rides to see his mother's brother, Gripi, the wisest of men, to ask about his destiny, and the soothsayer prophesies his adventures and early death.

  35. Before the Terrans came, there were no prophesies among the People of their coming.

  36. None of the People had prophesies of the coming of the Terrans.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prophesies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.