Lecoq, on his knees, studied each footprint with the attention of a chiromancer professing to read the future in the hand of a rich client. From Wordnik.com. [Monsieur Lecoq] Reference
I, Madame Zoe, chiromancer, lifelong student of the moldings and markings of the human hand; I, Madame Zoe, to whom no facet of your character or destiny is not readily revealed, I am prepared to. From Wordnik.com. [Even Cowgirls Get The Blues]
Is the handedness of life, its chirality (think chiromancer, which means "palm reader"), linked to its origins some 3.5 billion years ago, or did it develop after life was well on its way?. From Wordnik.com. [SEEDMAGAZINE.COM] Reference
The old man carefully held the lantern in the best position, while Lecoq, on his knees, studied each footprint with the attention of a chiromancer professing to read the future in the hand of a rich client. From Wordnik.com. [Monsieur Lecoq] Reference
Out of those hands, so delicately, ideally white and transparent, with their faint tracery of azure veins -- from those rosy hollowed palms, wherein a chiromancer would have discovered many an intricate crossing of lines, ten, twenty different men had drunk at a price. From Wordnik.com. [The Child of Pleasure] Reference
"Good people and worthy citizens of this town," he might say, "behold in me the great master ... prince of necromancers, astrologer, second mage, chiromancer, agromancer, pyromancer, hydromancer. From Wordnik.com. [German Culture Past and Present] Reference
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