The oracular sayings of Victorian poets. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : an oracular response. From Dictionary.com.
We have been accustomed to call the oracular sayings of men like Thales. From Wordnik.com. [Chips From A German Workshop, Vol. V. Miscellaneous Later Essays] Reference
German soccer fans are demanding that the "oracular" Octopus that picked Spain to win over. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News - UPI.com] Reference
You can be a little bit oracular, that's the upside. From Wordnik.com. [Slated for California] Reference
The result of past events is oracular of the future. From Wordnik.com. [Andrew Melville Famous Scots Series] Reference
And in a hollow, oracular whisper, he added: "Wait!". From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
German newspaper, reputed oracular in matters theatrical. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference
"Patience!" whispered the oaks from oracular caverns of darkness. From Wordnik.com. [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference
"Monsieur de Buxieres;" said he, With a particularly oracular air. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
With these oracular words, George Gilder opens his new book, "Telecosm.". From Wordnik.com. [Bandwidth Be Thy Name] Reference
And he: 'Neither did Phoebus on his oracular seat delude thee, O prince. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
Her father stayed in the house, loud oracular crying from being left behind. From Wordnik.com. [Four Days before Thanksgiving, Boston to Colorado] Reference
"The only way to have a friend is to be one," issues from the oracular lips of the. From Wordnik.com. [Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out] Reference
Demosthenes cites four oracular utterances, two from Dodona, the others probably from Delphi. From Wordnik.com. [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference
In oracular guidance he steered for Italy: be it so: he whom raving Cassandra sent on his way!. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
Near an oracular table, which bore evidence of recent manipulation, stood the Reverend Charles. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864] Reference
Irving or Prescott dull? and yet they are accurate and faithful as the most stately and oracular. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Character] Reference
He thought the scent a more oracular inquisition than the sight, -- more oracular and trustworthy. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862] Reference
He has an argumentative, oracular air, when things have gone wrong, which always upsets my dignity. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867] Reference
'Oh you could, could you, then, perhaps, for our sakes, you'll make it, -- and not play the oracular owl!. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
Apollo at Delphi, through the oracular utterance of his priestess, pronounced Socrates the wisest of men. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
His larger concerns seem to be ethical, not oracular, and it would not be unfair to call him a soliloquist. From Wordnik.com. [A River Runs Through It] Reference
These downy seedballs, which children blow off to find out the hour of day, serve for other oracular purposes. From Wordnik.com. [The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day] Reference
The speaker uttered his oracular sentences with a glow, which left his hearers almost as breathless as himself. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844] Reference
Here the graduate is treated as a servant, and the writer of the letter assumes the Pythian, the truly oracular vein. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference
As in the old forests of Germany, she had been listened to like a spirit of the woods, melodious, solemn and oracular. From Wordnik.com. [The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert] Reference
First in importance stand the artists, oftentimes oracular personages, dangerous of approach by outsiders having opinions. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
It was the oracular sage, Deacon Bedott, who, in view of the imperfections of his kind, remarked several times in his life. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
Several of these oracular prescriptions, inscribed upon a marble slab, were found on the site of an Esculapian temple near Rome. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
In primitive social economy the services of the child, as an unprejudiced or oracular decider of fates and fortunes, were often in demand. From Wordnik.com. [The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day] Reference
The following is a striking instance of the ambiguity of oracular predictions: -- Croesus, the rich king of Lydia, before going to war with. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome] Reference
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