Oracle in A Sentence

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    A form of divination providing inspiration and answers from the world's oldest oracle, free I Ching readings are based on ancient Chinese wisdom.

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    A later Jewish oracle (46-62) refers to the wars of the second Triumvirate of Rome, and the whole compilation seems to come from a Christian redactor.

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    A list of the Elamite deities is given by Assur-bani-pal; at the head of them was In-Susinak, "the lord of the Susians," - a title which went back to the age of Babylonian suzerainty, - whose image and oracle were hidden from the eyes of the profane.

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    A man of small stature and unimpressive appearance, he was somewhat lame from birth, a fact which was used as an argument against his succession, an oracle having warned Sparta against a "lame reign."

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    A pleasure, Oracle, Xander said and opened his eyes.

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    A prophetic oracle in ancient times, there is a large temple dedicated to the sun god Apollon here.

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    A special reference seems needed at this point to the oracle on Egypt, chap. xix.

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    A writer who was guilty of such improprieties had little right to blame the poet who made Hector quote Aristotle, and represented Julio Romano as flourishing in the days of the Oracle of Delphi.

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    According to my source of information, a blood relative can sustain an Oracle marooned without her master.

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    According to the common story, the Locrians consulted the Delphic oracle as to a remedy for the disorder and lawlessness that were rife amongst them.

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    According to the legend, Gordium was founded by Gordius, a Phrygian peasant who had been called to the throne by his countrymen in obedience to an oracle of Zeus commanding them to select the first person that rode up to the temple of the god in a wagon.

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    According to the legend, the emissarium (outlet) which still drains it was made in 39 8 -397 B.C., the Delphic oracle having declared that Veii could only be taken when the waters of the lake reached the sea.

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    According to the legend, the emissarium of the Alban Lake was constructed in obedience to the Delphic oracle, which declared that, until it was drained, Veii could not be taken.

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    According to the oracle, the wrath of Poseidon could only be appeased by the sacrifice of one of the king's daughters.

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    According to the traditional account, when Greece was threatened with famine, the Delphic oracle ordered firstfruits to be brought to Athens from all parts of the country, which were to be offered by the Athenians to the goddess Deo on behalf of all the contributors.

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    After a period of instruction in medicine by a doctor who also, according to Lucian, was an impostor, he succeeded in establishing an oracle of Aesculapius at his native town.

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    After the trip to the hospital, he'd drop her off for the Oracle to deal with and go back to work, where maybe he could shake his sense of doom by killing some vamps.

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    Again, the probability that the passage in Jeremiah incorporates disjointed fragments of an older oracle is greatly increased by the fact that the prophecy against Moab in the preceding chapter uses, in the same way, Isa.

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    Alexander of Hales was the oracle of the Franciscans, while the rival order rejoiced in Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas.

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    All these three writers combined the posts of keeper of the archives and royal chronicler, and were, in fact, the king's men, though Lopes at least seems rather the historian of a people than the oracle of a monarch.

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    Also quite delicate, with cherry flavors and a slightly gamey background, is Oracle Shiraz 2001 (Oddbins ).

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    Also used in Feng Shui and as an ancient Chinese oracle or fortune telling.

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    AmOng the Babylonians and Assyrians the baru (from bars to see, inspect) was a soothsaying priest who was consulted whenever any important undertaking was proposed, and addressed his inquiries to Samas the sun god (or Adad) as bet biri or lord of the oracle (accompanied by the sacrifice of lambs).

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    An Oracle … now that was worthy of his attention.

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    An oracle having declared that Troy could not be taken without the arrows of Heracles, Odysseus and Diomedes (or Neoptolemus) were sent to fetch Philoctetes.

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    An Oracle must be blood bound to her master to be of any use and keep you from dying from the Transformation.

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    An oracle of the god came through him.

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    And a terrified little Oracle who's sobbing her eyes out right now.

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    And Croesus was so amazed that he endowed the Oracle at Delphi with all kinds of gifts and planned to run all-important questions by this oracle.

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    Another thought crossed Damian's mind, one that told him his little Oracle must've known who Jonny would've chosen to send him in exchange for Jenn.

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    As an Oracle, she'd foreseen this moment in time, as well as another.

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    As dark as the war was quickly becoming, he had hope in his adopted brothers, his little Oracle, and his child.

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    As early as the fourteenth century B.C. the ancient Chinese were inscribing oracle bones with pictures that depicted phenomena that occurred naturally in the universe such as night and day.

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    As the final victory of Athens over Aegina was in 458 B.C., the thirty years of the oracle would carry us back to the year 488 B.C. as the date of the dedication of the precinct and the outbreak of hostilities.

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    As the only Oracle and soul reader in existence, she was the only one who could repair the mind of her mate's brother, the Grey God, who suffered a fate worse than death as a slave to Czerno.

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    At around four months pregnant, the Oracle barely showed in the mortal world but looked closer to nine months here.

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    At last it is determined that Pantagruel and his followers (Friar John has reappeared in the suite of the prince) shall set sail to consult the Oracle of the Dive Bouteille.

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    At last the Land of Lanterns, borrowed from Lucian, is reached, and the Oracle of the Bottle is consulted.

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    At last, Temenus, Cresphontes and Aristodemus, the sons of Aristomachus, complained to the oracle that its instructions had proved fatal to those who had followed them.

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    At least, they had been until about a year ago, when the White God found the first Oracle since the Schism.

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    At the Caribbean Sanctuary, Fate watched the Oracle record the latest batch of deals made between deities.

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    Athamas, regarding this as the fulfilment of the oracle, settled there and married a third wife, Themisto.

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    Aunt Shaneequa is an oracle who gets a copy of the tape and helps Cindy discover a lighthouse image which will in turn help her locate the place where the tape was filmed.

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    Being desirous of reconquering his paternal inheritance, Hyllus consulted the Delphic oracle, which told him to wait for "the third fruit," and then enter Peloponnesus by "a narrow passage by sea."

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    Beside it was the name of their Oracle mother, Kinila, who had gone crazy soon after Damian's birth.

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    Bet you didn't see this one coming, Oracle.

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    Between you and the Oracle, there's no stopping me.

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    Bianca stifled a laugh, genuinely liking the subtle yet feisty Oracle.

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    But in the desert there is no king and no sovereignty save that of the divine oracle, and therefore it is from the soothsayers or ministers of the oracle that a public ministry of religion can most naturally spring.

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    But Praeneste was chiefly famed for its great temple of Fortune and for its oracle, in connexion with the temple, known as the "Praenestine lots" (sortes praenestinae) .

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    But the land was cursed with barrenness, and the oracle declared that Alcmaeon would never find rest until he reached a spot on which the sun had never shone at the time he slew his mother.

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    But the strongest argument, and one which has never been attacked by authorities really competent to judge, is that the "griffe de l'aigle" is on the book, and that no known author of the time except Rabelais was capable of writing the passage about the Chats fourres, the better part of the history of Queen Whims (La Quinte) and her court, and the conclusion giving the Oracle of the Bottle.

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    Carapanos conjectures to have been connected with the oracle, but which show no distinguishing features.

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    Century-long wars had been fought in Damian's father's time over who claimed a discovered Oracle, no matter how competent the Oracle turned out.

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    Closely connected with the god of oracles was the god of the healing art, the oracle being frequently consulted in cases of sickness.

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    Croesus proposed to the oracle his well-known question; Lysander sought to obtain from it a sanction for his ambitious views; the Athenians frequently appealed to its authority during the Peloponnesian War.

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    Customers were also leery of Oracle discontinuing support and development for the PeopleSoft applications they were running, he added.

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    Damian shook his head, comforted by the little Oracle and his adopted brother.

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    Damian, Dustin, Jule, I'm an Oracle.

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    Damian's gaze lingered on the door after the Oracle fled.

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    Damian's mother, an Oracle as crazy as she was powerful, told her son about the slave child with blue eyes who'd one day change the path of fate.

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    Darian fought himself, groping with glazed eyes for the crumpled Oracle.

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    Darian had spent thousands of years enslaved to the Black God before the Oracle freed him, and Jule couldn't imagine how deeply that experience must have scarred the Grey God's soul.

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    Darian saw the hard look on Jonny's face as the Black God bent down to pick up the Oracle.

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    Darkyn's end of the deal was hidden from Gabriel, but the deal was marked as fulfilled, according to the Oracle.

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    Death took her human form out of respect for the women of the convent-like Sanctuary that housed the Oracle.

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    Depended on the king and the Oracle.

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    Did the damn Oracle do this?

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    Dionysus further possessed the prophetic gift, and his oracle at Delphi was as important as that of Apollo.

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    Dusty couldn't help but wonder how he'd gotten stuck with a pregnant Oracle and an equally moody teenager with godlike powers and no ability to control them.

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    Dusty's sharp order made the Oracle jump.

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    Each can certainly be considered to be a kingdom oracle with heightened imagery.

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    Each of the four Sanctuaries sat on an island straddling the human and immortal worlds and housed an immortal treasure, such as the Oracle.

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    Eden touched her Oracle magic.

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    Even if your Oracle remains in Florida?

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    Even Jonny hesitated, eyes going to the pale Oracle.

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    Fake left, right to the kidney, Xander instructed the Oracle in the ring.

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    Farmer's Oracle, began publication in 1797.

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    Fitting. Black cat for an Oracle.

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    For the influence and history of the oracle see Oracle.

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    From inscriptions and later writers we learn that in historical times there was worshipped, together with Zeus, a consort named Dione (see further Zeus; Oracle; Dione).

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    From what she knew of the Oracle, Sofi was probably dancing in joy right now, knowing she won a round with Xander.

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    Gabe watched it, anger stirring as the Oracle confirmed Darkyn's story about bringing back a dead-dead immortal.

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    Gabriel left for the Caribbean Sanctuary, where the book possessed by a long dead Oracle was busy scribbling notes about the Present.

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    Gabriel rubbed his jaw and strode out of the Oracle's small room.

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    Gabriel turned the pages of the Oracle's book, watching as words scribbled themselves across the parchment, updating a chain of events that changed with every decision made by the Council That Was Seven.

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    Gabriel's lover and master, the deity Death, materialized beside him at the Oracle's altar in the center of an ancient fortress in the Sanctuary.

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    Graf (Jeremia, p. 558 f.), Robertson Smith and others, that Jeremiah and our book of Obadiah alike quote from an older oracle.

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    Grimly, he returned grudgingly to his duties of entertaining his guests, feeling as if he needed to do something for his little Oracle.

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    Having been appointed by Pompey to the command in Greece, in obedience to an ambiguous oracle he crossed over to Euboea, where he died about 48, before the battle of Pharsalus.

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    He allowed his supporters to suggest the offer of the regal title by putting in circulation an oracle according to which it was destined for a king of Rome to subdue the Parthians, and when at the Lupercalia (15th January 44 B.C.) Antony set the diadem on his head he rejected the offer half-heartedly on account of the groans of the people.

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    He closed the door and moved the laptop Pierre had brought her to supplement her Oracle research.

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    He couldn't risk alienating the woman in his bed, partly because she was still too delicate, too new to his world to take the next step and partly because he was still leery of the powers of an Oracle.

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    He didn't dare mess with an Oracle, though.

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    He didn't want to think about the probability behind such a powerful Oracle appearing when she did.

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    He felt the cool power of an Oracle move through Jessi and into him.

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    He found himself on the Caribbean Sanctuary, in the small chamber with the Oracle book.  Sea breeze swept through the small windows of the room, and he took a step towards the lectern on which the open book rested.  The pages displayed had a few words written on them rather than the constantly shifting writing that normally scrawled itself across the pages.  He felt himself compelled towards the book even as his fight-or-flight instinct reared up.

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    He gently removed the tube from the Oracle and placed his hand over the wound to heal it.

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    He had a temple and oracle in Apulia.

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    He had an oracle at Orchomenus, but during a plague it became L silent and remained so in Plutarch's time (De Defectu Oraculorum, 44).

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    He held out his hand, palm up, to the Oracle in the typical greeting – and permission for her to check his future.

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    He is the man whom the oracle meant.

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    He leaned forward, intrigued as the Oracle scribbled down the agreement.

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    He may consult an oracle should his partner fall ill.

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    He might need to pay the Oracle a visit.

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    He motioned to the Oracle's book.

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    He released a deep breath and rose, aware the birth of a new god and discovery of a powerful Oracle indicated nothing but more trouble to come.

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    He resisted the urge to reach out to her as he did Sofi when the Oracle cried after a particularly brutal session with Darian's bad memories.

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    He returned to the Sanctuary, to the Oracle, who was busy scribbling.

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    He started to Travel to the Oracle's room but thought better of it.

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    He tapped the lectern on which the Oracle was busy writing in her book.

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    He tapped the Oracle book waiting where she left it.

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    He took an active part in the subjugation of the Gauls in the north of Italy (225), and after the battle of Cannae (216) was employed by the Romans to proceed to Delphi in order to consult the oracle of Apollo.

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    He trusted Sofi over the Watchers but couldn't help wishing the damned Oracle had been a bit more specific.

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    He visited Memphis, founded Alexandria, and went on pilgrimage to the oracle of Ammon (Oasis of Siwa).

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    He was afterwards worshipped as a hero and an oracle was consecrated to him.

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    He was consulted as an oracle on all questions of casuistry - as, for example, on the lawfulness of inoculation for the small-pox.

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    He was ordered by the oracle to settle in a place where he should receive hospitality from wild beasts.

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    He was so well acquainted with the contents of the volumes which he exposed for sale that the country rectors of Staffordshire and Worcestershire thought him an oracle on points of learning.

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    He who binds the Oracle, binds the future, his brother had once told him.

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    He wrestled with himself silently for a moment – or maybe with the Oracle, who no doubt was able to talk to him mentally – then stepped back and threw open his arms.

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    He'd almost forgotten that the word for Oracle in his native tongue also meant soul-reader, the dual nature of a woman whose talent allowed her to see a person's soul and future with a simple touch.

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    He'd known how powerful his little Oracle could be.

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    Heliopolis was made a colonia probably by Octavian (coins of 1 st century A.D.), and there must have been a Baal temple there in which Trajan consulted the oracle.

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    Hence Baentsch would refer this oracle to the time of Antiochus IV.

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    Her benefactor was a human, an Oracle, Xander continued.

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    Her father, having been warned by an oracle that she would bear a son by whom he would be slain, confined Danae in a brazen tower.

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    Her gaze was unusually steady and clear, as if she were already a legendary Oracle capable of seeing through whatever was before her.

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    Her head spun from the visions she'd been having since Ireland, and she'd fought with herself for days before coming to the conclusion she'd have to break one of her Oracle vows.

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    Her human form was tiny enough that the Oracle's book reached her shoulder level.

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    Her reading had shed some insight, saying that when an Oracle died, she could be brought back to life by a blood bond.

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    His book, The Televisionary Oracle, described as a "docufiction memoir," was published in 2000.

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    His father, after a vain search for him, consulted the oracle, and was referred to the person who should suggest the aptest comparison for one of the cows of Minos which had the power of assuming three different colours.

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    His gaze drifted back to the Oracle.

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    His gaze went to the Oracle, who had shed no light on what was going on in his underworld.

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    His heart skipped a beat as he realized that the last great Oracle, his mother, appeared just before the Schism, when the Watchers went to war and the universe was almost destroyed.

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    His mind traveled to the sexy Oracle, and he wondered if she'd be anything like the Oracles from his father's time.

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    His new Oracle was dangerous.

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    His terrified, brave little Oracle was entrancing, the shimmer that caught his attention when they met much stronger with their bond.

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    How silly was an Oracle who refused her own destiny?

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    I am an Oracle, Dusty.

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    I can't read her mind or find all the deals in the Oracle.

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    I Ching can guide you to achieve balance between the yin and yang energies within yourself and any external circumstances or situations by offering you specific actions as directed by the I Ching Oracle (Book of Changes).

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    I entreat you to ask the oracle how I can recover my voice.

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    I guess I can check the Oracle.

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    I had to wait until you found your Oracle to tell you.

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    I have to verify it with the Oracle first.

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    I think you just picked up Oracle babysitting duty.

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    I want to see the Oracle.

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    I will see the Oracle.

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    I'm an Oracle, a creature from the human realm who has the ability to see the future.

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    I'm trying to learn to be an Oracle.

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    If past-Death and Darkyn made any kind of deal, the Oracle would have record of it.

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    If she was an Oracle, she needed to learn to be one.

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    If she'd been any less of an Oracle than what she is … Darian would have spent the remainder of his life in the hell that'd claimed him.

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    If the experiment cannot be regarded as successful, the fault lies in the difficulty of reconciling the artificial conventions of the Greek theatre, the chorus and the oracle - here represented by dreams and superstitions - with the point of view of the poet's own time.

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    Ikira, in our time, an Oracle greeted all visitors to the king's palace to assess their loyalties to her king.

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    In consequence of an oracle which had commanded him to marry his daughters to a lion and a boar, he wedded them to Polyneices and Tydeus, two fugitives, clad in the skins of these animals or carrying shields with their figures on them, who claimed his hospitality.

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    In Greece, on the other hand, divination was not generally a priestly function, but it did belong to the priests of the Oracles (see Oracle).

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    In his twentieth year he was ordered by the Delphic oracle to return home and revenge his father's death.

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    In it and around it were found the most interesting products of excavation - statuettes and decorative bronzes, many of them bearing dedications to Zeus Naius and Dione, and inscriptions, including many small tablets of lead which contained the questions put to the oracle.

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    In my world, you'd be called an Oracle, one who can see a person's future by touching them.

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    In our time, whoever controlled the Oracle, controlled the battle.

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    In point of fact some form of revelation or oracle appears to have existed in every great shrine of Canaan and Syria,' and the importance of this element in the cultus may be measured from the fact that at Hierapolis it was the charge of the chief priest, just as in the Levitical legislation.

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    In response to an oracle he was bidden to move northwards to Judah and successfully occupied it with Hebron as his capital.

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    In Strabo's time a tribe called Dardanii, then reckoned Illyrian, living next the Thracian Bessi (in whose land was the oldest oracle of Dionysus), were probably as much Thracian as Illyrian.

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    In the crisis of the second Punic War (205 B.C.), when the Romans lost faith in the efficacy of their own religion to save the state, the Senate, in compliance with an oracle in the Sibylline books to the effect that the foreign foe could be driven from Italy if the Idaean Mother (Cybele) were brought from Pessinus to Rome, sent ambassadors to the town, who obtained the sacred stone which was the symbol of the goddess and brought it to Rome, where the worship of Cybele was established.

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    In the divided state of the nation, indeed, this sanctuary was hardly visited from beyond Mt Ephraim; and every man or tribe that cared to provide the necessary apparatus (ephod, teraphim, &c.) and hire a priest might have a temple and oracle of his own at which to consult Jehovah (Judges xvii., xviii.); but there was hardly another sanctuary of equal dignity.

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    In the words of an Oracle I once knew, get used to it.

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    Is this the Oracle or the pregnant chic talking?

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    It felt … foreign to the Oracle's body, yet was intense.

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    It is almost incredible that the superb imaginative amplification of the description of Hyder Ali's descent upon the Carnatic should be from the same pen as the grave, simple, unadorned Address to the King (1777), where each sentence falls on the ear with the accent of some golden-tongued oracle of the wise gods.

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    It is guarded by a body of chosen knights, or templars, and acts alike as a life and youth preserving talisman - no man may die within eight days of beholding it, and the maiden who bears it retains perennial youth - and an oracle choosing its own servants, and indicating whom the Grail king shall wed.

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    It is not indeed possible to deny that in the Oracle of the Bottle, besides its merely jocular and fantastic sense, there is a certain "echo," as it has been called, "of the conclusion of the preacher," a certain acknowledgment of the vanity of things.

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    It is spoken of in the Iliad as the stormy abode of Selli who sleep on the ground and wash not their feet, and in the Odyssey an imaginary visit of Odysseus to the oracle is referred to.

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    It was a Megarian colony founded on a site so obviously inferior to that which was within view on the opposite shore, that it received from the oracle the name of "the City of the Blind."

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    It was a part of him, just as being an Oracle was a part of her.

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    It was bad news for him, though, if the Oracle who hated him felt the need to warn him.

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    It was noted from early times for its temple and oracle of Apollo, and, as the port of Xanthus and other towns of the same valley, had a large trade, and was regarded as the metropolis of Lycia.

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    It was so before the Schism, when the White God took an Oracle as his bride and was himself betrayed.

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    It's all a matter of how you form your question and the way you interpret the oracle meaning as it relates to your question.

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    It's called an Oracle.

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    Its situation, said to have been fixed by the Delphic oracle, was remarkable for beauty and security.

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    Jenn asked, startled as the Oracle pushed her aside to stand before Xander.

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    Jenn cleared her throat and looked away before the Oracle saw her smile.

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    Jenn glanced at the fiery Oracle, impressed by her spunk.

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    Jenn glanced at the Oracle.

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    Jenn glanced over her shoulder and saw the Oracle teetering to her feet with Bianca's assistance.

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    Jenn took Sofi's hand and staggered at the vision the Oracle implanted.

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    Jenn turned to see Bianca's other hand on Sofi, while the Oracle's hands were around her stomach.

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    Jessi met the Oracle's gaze curiously.

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    Jule shifted forward as the vamp held out his hand, palm up, in the traditional greeting to an Oracle.

    193

    Julian afterwards sent Oribasius to restore the temple; but the oracle responded to the emperor's enthusiasm with nothing but a wail over the glory that had departed.

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    Keep in mind, you're not supposed to be anywhere near the Oracle.

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    Laius, having been warned by an oracle that he would be killed by his son, ordered him to be exposed, with his feet pierced, immediately after his birth.

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    Madame de Kriidener, and her colleague, the evangelist Empaytaz, became the confidants of the emperor's most secret thoughts; and during the campaign that ended in the occupation of Paris the imperial prayer-meetings were the oracle on whose revelations hung the fate of the world.

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    Many of the most remarkable among the younger men of that period resorted to Highgate as to the shrine of an oracle, and although one or two disparaging judgments, such as that of Carlyle, have been recorded, there can be no doubt that since Samuel Johnson there had been no such power in England.

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    Many times, a king will take an Oracle as his mate.

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    Memories of a time when he'd been happy as the White God with his Oracle at his side.

    200

    Might there be a psychic; some fortune-telling soothsayer clairvoyant oracle bitch sticking her witch-nose into my business?

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    Moreover the Dorian population of Delphi constantly strove to establish its independence and about 590 B.C. induced a coalition of Greek states to proclaim a "Sacred War" and free the oracle from Phocian supervision.

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    Most of them know better than to mess with an Oracle.

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    No, this Oracle wasn't another Claire, without potential or skill.

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    Now among the Arabs, as we have seen, ritual service is the affair of the individual, or of a mass of individuals gathered in a great feast, but still doing worship each for himself and his own private circle; the only public aspect of religion is found in connexion with divination and the oracle to which the affairs of the community are submitted.

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    Now the oracle at Delphi was supposed to be very wise.

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    Now you have all the information you need to consult the oracle.

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    Of particular interest is a feature called the "Free Inkblot Oracle Reading".

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    Of particular interest is the discovery of the 17th century workhouse, the Oracle, and a 16th century tannery.

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    Older than these are the Babylonian oracle (97-154) and the Persian (381-387).

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    On this spot was the oracle of Trophonius in an underground cave; those who wished to consult it first offered the sacrifice of a ram and called upon the name of Agamedes.

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    One makes him the son of Mandane, a daughter of Astyages (originally evidently by a god), who is exposed in the mountains by his grandfather on account of an oracle, but suckled by a dog (a sacred animal of the Iranians) and educated by a shepherd; i.e.

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    One volume, Oracle, See Thyself Home, caught her attention.

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    Only an Oracle's blood was drained to force her to bind with her master.

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    Only the long-dead Oracle possessing the book and the deities could see the Past, Present, and Future.

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    Or checking with the Oracle.

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    Or your Oracle could tell you.

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    Oracle Corporation has stepped up to meet this need with their ThinkQuest site, which makes a content management system available to teachers to work with their students.

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    Oracle has repeatedly promised to bend over backward to keep PeopleSoft's 12,200 customers happy, but some are already disgruntled.

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    Oracle, she reminded herself.

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    Other tech heavyweights, including Hewlett-Packard, Oracle, Google and Yahoo, have plans to hire employees in India.

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    Pierre returned a couple of hours later as she checked off the fourth box on her list of Oracle self-training.

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    Pindar erected a shrine of the Mother of the gods beside his house, and the Athenians were directed by the Delphic oracle to atone for the execution of a priest of Cybele during the Peloponnesian War by building the Metroon.

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    Practitioners often ask the oracle questions in regard to areas in your home where negative energy is difficult to correct.

    224

    Radius Topology works seamlessly with MapInfo products in an Oracle environment.

    225

    Relying upon a Sibylline oracle that three Cornelii should be rulers of Rome, Lentulus regarded himself as the destined successor of Cornelius.

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    Right about now, he'd give almost anything to talk to Sofia, the White God's Oracle.

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    Scholars today are pretty sure that in the case of Delphi, the oracle was inadvertently breathing gases that rose from the cave in which she sat.

    228

    Senior Oracle staff don't carry money; they have an entourage which handles all that.

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    She didn't know if he'd met with the Oracle or not, but his words sounded eerily like Sofi's, who had claimed her destiny merged with Darian's.

    230

    She felt bad for the Oracle trapped in a book.

    231

    She knew it; one of the few limitations an Oracle had was the inability to see her own future.

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    She knew the Oracle was powerful, but seeing her in the immortal world drilled home just how strong her power was.

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    She paced and stared at him. … a blood relative can sustain an Oracle.

    234

    She shook her head and twisted to face the corner, where the blonde Oracle and brunette Healer sat together.

    235

    She slid the Oracle's book carefully into a satchel and replaced it inside the altar before placing the hourglass in front of him.

    236

    She was alone and segregated, partly because she was new, and partly because an Oracle's soul-reading job was brutal enough that most Oracles—including his mother—killed themselves soon after their full powers manifested within them.

    237

    She was an Oracle, a human with the spotty ability to predict the future.

    238

    She was too young of an Oracle to have mastered her ability yet.

    239

    She whirled away and crossed to the Oracle's book, closing it after his failed attempt to see Rhyn's fate.

    240

    She'd knocked the Oracle out to make Traveling a little more comfortable.

    241

    She'd thought the Oracle looked much larger than a few months pregnant.

    242

    She's also an Oracle, so she comes up with strange, random things sometimes, Jule said, winking at the small woman.

    243

    She's an Oracle who can see the future.

    244

    So the governor sent a messenger to Delphi to ask the oracle what should be done with the tripod.

    245

    So you defied your brother for the little blonde Oracle?

    246

    So, do SQL*Plus scripts accurately reflect real-world Oracle behavior, or do you need full-blown multi-user benchmarks?

    247

    Sofi was the only Oracle to be found since the Schism.

    248

    Sofi watched him, her own transition from human to Oracle causing fresh pain.

    249

    Sofi, the wife of the White God, Damian, was the most powerful Oracle Xander had ever met in his long history.

    250

    South of the Ibos live the Aros, a tribe of relatively great intelligence, who dominated many of the surrounding tribes and possessed an oracle or ju-ju of reputed great power.

    251

    Streams uses Oracle's log Miner infrastructure to read redo logs.

    252

    Symbols Thousands of oracle bones have been unearthed which date back to the Shang dynasty.

    253

    Tell the wise man why you bring it, and repeat to him the words of the oracle.

    254

    That she was a weak Oracle unable to access her magic meant nothing to him at the time.

    255

    That she was an Oracle was fantastic.

    256

    That's what happens when you have an Oracle for a mate.

    257

    The Athenians were preparing to make reprisals, in spite of the advice of the Delphic oracle that they should desist from attacking Aegina for thirty years, and content themselves meanwhile with dedicating a precinct to Aeacus, when their projects were interrupted by the Spartan intrigues for the restoration of Hippias.

    258

    The awkward lull in talk made him wonder if a certain Oracle had told them otherwise.

    259

    The bad thing about being mated to an Oracle – you never know what she's plotting.

    260

    The company are currently recruiting for a project accountant with industry and Oracle experience.

    261

    The Delphic oracle bade them sacrifice a virgin of the house of Aepytus.

    262

    The Delphic oracle was not some sort of magical mystery show.

    263

    The Delphic oracle, under the influence of Cleomenes' bribes, pronounced in favour of Leotychides, who became king (491 B.C.).

    264

    The devil shot the Oracle twice, then once more.

    265

    The door tore off, and Darian was flung out, his grip around the Oracle tight enough to take her with him.

    266

    The evacuation of Egypt by Antiochus Epiphanes at the bidding of the Roman ambassadors suits the warning addressed to "Greece" (732-740) against overweening ambition and any attempt upon the Holy City, which is somewhat strangely enforced by the famous Greek oracle, "Let Camarina be, 'tis best unstirred."

    267

    The famous oracle of Amphiaraus was situated in the territory of Oropus, 12 stadia from the city.

    268

    The firm words came from the Healer, not the Oracle, who smiled in agreement.

    269

    The first-time blinkers worked the oracle for Ocean Pride last time, but can he defy a rise?

    270

    The following websites are a sampling of those that provide free readings from the ancient oracle.

    271

    The former oracle referred originally to the actual Temple, and contained a prediction of the preservation of the Temple.

    272

    The heavy Caribbean air rustled the pages of the Oracle's book.

    273

    The Henriade had got on considerably during the journey, and, according to his lifelong habit, the poet, with the help of his friend Thieriot and others, had been "working the oracle" of puffery.

    274

    The importance of the fountain is attested by the fact that the Greek poets and the Delphic oracle instead of saying Corinth said, "the city of Pirene."

    275

    The inspiring influence of Westcott's intense enthusiasm left its mark upon these three distinguished men; they regarded him not only as their friend and counsellor, but as in an especial degree their teacher and oracle.

    276

    The last blood-bound Oracle was Damian's mother, who went mad soon after his birth.

    277

    The leaden tablets of the oracle contain no certain example of a response, though there are many questions, varying from matters of public policy or private enterprise to inquiries after stolen goods.

    278

    The little Oracle knew just how to affect him.

    279

    The male god Dagon has his partner Astarte (qq.v.), and Baal-zebub, a famous oracle of Ekron (2 Kings i.) finds a parallel in the local " baals " of Palestine.'

    280

    The most famous of these was the Oracle at Delphi.

    281

    The oldest form of divination, the I Ching oracle provides insight and guidance in the form of hexagram patterns.

    282

    The only way you will learn to work the oracle is through diligent work in your daily life.

    283

    The Oracle at Delphi actually got it right.

    284

    The oracle at Delphi has ordered that it shall be given to the wisest of wise men, and for that reason we have brought it to you.

    285

    The oracle at Delphi was asserted by tradition to have existed before the introduction of the Apolline worship and to have belonged to the goddess Earth (Ge or Gaia).

    286

    The oracle continued to be consulted down to Christian times, until Constantine, and again later Theodosius, forbade the practice and closed the temple.

    287

    The Oracle didn't tell you you're intended for … greatness?

    288

    The Oracle had given him nothing, and he didn't feel able to sit still and drink tea with Daniela, the headmistress of the order of nuns who managed this Sanctuary.

    289

    The Oracle had pinned it to a corner of her mind, but it was slipping free.

    290

    The Oracle had to have told her husband something.

    291

    The Oracle is my mate, Damian growled.

    292

    The Oracle is on her own.

    293

    The Oracle listed the complete terms, but Gabriel was only able to see the portion concerning his domain.

    294

    The Oracle looked exhausted, worry on her features.

    295

    The oracle of Ammon having announced that no relief would be found until the king exposed his daughter Andromeda to the monster, she was fastened to a rock on the shore.

    296

    The oracle of Delphi determined that the city had no founder but Apollo, and in the Athenian War in Sicily Thurii was at first neutral, though it finally helped the Athenians.

    297

    The Oracle probably knew how this day would end, which world would survive.

    298

    The Oracle resisted at first then gave, and Bianca swept it away.

    299

    The Oracle said no more and took Darian's place at the breakfast bar.

    300

    The Oracle says you made your first deal as his mate.

    301

    The Oracle seemed to be waiting for him.

    302

    The Oracle shook her head.

    303

    The Oracle side of her knew there was more at stake, that there was no guarantee they'd make it out of the immortal world, if Darian didn't do what he needed to.

    304

    The Oracle Sofia descended the stairs to the main floor of her mate's Texas ranch, one hand on the railing and the other on her stomach.

    305

    The Oracle Sofia felt the youth enter the library like a cold breeze in a sauna.

    306

    The Oracle strode forward, hand held out.

    307

    The Oracle told my mother that she wanted to turn me into a creature beyond mercy with power no one could counter.

    308

    The Oracle took it, and Bianca took her other one.

    309

    The Oracle was quiet, scribbling words.

    310

    The Oracle was re-writing the present, based on who was killed and who had lived that wasn't supposed to.

    311

    The Oracle was ready to pop and the wall was guarded by half a dozen men.

    312

    The Oracle was silent.

    313

    The Oracle was staring at them, displeased.

    314

    The oracle was, however, still consulted, e.g.

    315

    The Oracle wasn't intimidated by Xander; she wasn't about to let him disrupt her day, a thought he heard when they were touching.

    316

    The Oracle will know where I am, Xander had said.

    317

    The Oracle will know where I am.

    318

    The oracle, being again consulted by Temenus, bade him offer an expiatory sacrifice and banish the murderer for ten years, and look out for a man with three eyes to act as guide.

    319

    The oracle... ' a divinely ordained mission to expose the false conceit of wisdom ' (Brickhouse & Smith, Plato ).

    320

    The Oracle's gaze sharpened as she looked at Jule.

    321

    The period between when an Oracle could be bound and when she permanently died was brief.

    322

    The pre-eminent wisdom which the Delphic oracle attributed to him was held by himself to consist in a unique consciousness of ignorance.

    323

    The priestesses were called doves (7r XEtac) and Herodotus tells a story which he learned at Egyptian Thebes, that the oracle of Dodona was founded by an Egyptian priestess who was carried away by the Phoenicians, but says that the local legend substitutes for this priestess a black dove, a substitution in which he tries to find a rational meaning.

    324

    The priests of Amane at Meroe and Napata, in fact, regulated through his oracle the whole government of the country, choosing the king, directing his military expeditions (and even compelling him to commit suicide, according to Diodorus) until in the 3rd century B.C. Arkamane (Ergamenes) broke through the bondage and slew the priests.

    325

    The reputation of the oracle, which was in origin medical, spread, and with it grew Alexander's skilled plans of organized deception.

    326

    The result was a great disaster, and Alexander had recourse to the old quibble of the Delphic oracle to Croesus for an explanation.

    327

    The revelation thus looked for may be found in natural omens, in the priestly lot or some similar sacral oracle, or, finally, in the words of a seer who is held to be in closer contact with the deity than common men.

    328

    The right of precedence in consultation of the oracle (7rpoyavrEia) was transferred from Athens to Philip. While indignant Athenians were clamouring for the revocation of the peace, Demosthenes upheld it in his speech "On the Peace" in September.

    329

    The rise of this function of the prophets is plainly parallel with the change which took place under the kings in the position of the priestly oracle; the Torah of the priests now dealt rather with permanent sacred ordinances than with the giving of new divine counsel for special occasions.

    330

    The room of the Sanctuary where he materialized consisted of nothing more than a lectern holding a massive book possessed by a long-dead Oracle.

    331

    The seeker asks the oracle a specific question or asks for advice or insight, by typing the request into a question box.

    332

    The service was renamed "Yahoo!" shortly thereafter, which stands for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle".

    333

    The skull is located in the Oracle level.

    334

    The small woman was the most powerful Oracle since ancient times, stronger even than his own mother.

    335

    The soothsayer differs from the priest of an oracle by giving his revelation under excitement and often in a frenzy allied to madness.

    336

    The steady dependence of Sparta on the Delphic oracle, for example, is best explained as an observance inherited from Parnassian ancestors.

    337

    The temple at Shiloh, where the ark was preserved, was the lineal descendant of the Mosaic sanctuary - for it was not the place but the palladium and its oracle that were the essential thing - and its priests claimed kin with Moses himself.

    338

    The temple of Dodona was destroyed by the Aetolians in 219 B.C., but the oracle survived to the times of Pausanias and even of the emperor Julian.

    339

    The voice of the god might be uttered in omens which the skilled could read, or conveyed in the inspired rhymes of soothsayers, but frequently it was sought in the oracle of the sanctuary, where the sacred lot was administered for a fee by the sadin.

    340

    The words might mean that Japheth was an intruding invader, but this is not consonant with the tone of the oracle.

    341

    There is a tradition that the Delphian oracle was consulted as early as the period of the kings during the reign of Tarquinius Superbus, and in 4 3 o a temple was dedicated to Apollo on the occasion of a pestilence, and during the Second Punic War (in 212) the Ludi Apollinares were instituted in his honour.

    342

    There was an oracle of Ammon established for some centuries in Libya, in the distant oasis of Siwa.

    343

    There was another temple dedicated to him on the road from Thebes to Potniae, and here was the oracle of Amphiaraus consulted by Croesus and Mardonius.

    344

    These diviners worked for the Shang kings; most of the "forecasts" found on these Oracle bones dealt with warfare, weather, hunting, and best days for ceremonies.

    345

    These officials, at the command of the senate, consulted the Sibylline books in order to discover, not exact predictions of definite future events, but the religious observances necessary to avert extraordinary calamities (pestilence, earthquake) and to expiate prodigies in cases where the national deities were unable, or unwilling, to help. Only the interpretation of the oracle which was considered suitable to the emergency was made known to the public, not the oracle itself.

    346

    They dwelt on lofty mountains covered with forests and snow, and on the highest of these was an oracle of Dionysus, whose utterances were delivered by a priestess.

    347

    They give no certain information as to the sacred cleft and other matters relating to the oracle.

    348

    They say the Oracle put a spell on you.

    349

    This belief was supported by the Delphic oracle, which was largely instrumental in promoting hero-worship and keeping alive its due observance.

    350

    This is probably an ancient oracle independent alike of the flood story and the genealogical scheme in Gen.

    351

    This much has been clear for months, since the Oracle made her appearance.

    352

    This paper soon became an oracle in Wales, and played a great part in stirring up the nationalist movement in the principality.

    353

    This temple was dedicated to Zeus, and connected with the temple was an oracle 1 Voyage et aventures de Francois Leguat, &c. (2 vols., London, 1708).

    354

    This was an Oracle the world hadn't seen since before the Schism, the type of Oracle that belonged at her king's side.

    355

    Three gods of the inscriptions are named in the Koran - Wadd, Yaghuth and Nasr. In the god name Ta'lab there may be an indication of tree-worship. The many minor deities may be passed over; but we must mention the sanctuary of Riyam, with its images of the sun and moon, and, according to tradition, an oracle.

    356

    Through the dream the living was put into communication with the dead, which sometimes embodied itself in peculiar and pathetic literary forms, such as the Icelandic dream-verses imparted by the spirits of those who had been lost at sea or overwhelmed by the snow; and a whole series of steps leads up from necromancy to prophecy and oracle, .?

    357

    Thus Apollo has to fight the oracle serpent of Gaia, and it has been observed that where Apollo prevailed in Greek religion the serpent became a monster to be slain.

    358

    Thus for the 7th, 14th, 21 st, 28th and also the 19th days of the intercalary Elul it is prescribed that "the shepherd of many nations is not to eat meat roast with fire nor any food cooked by fire, he is not to change the clothes on his body nor put on gala dress, he may not bring sacrifices nor may the king ride in his chariot, he is not to hold court nor may the priest seek an oracle for him in the sanctuary, no physician may attend the sick room, the day is not favourable for invoking curses, but at night the king may bring his gift into the presence of Marduk and Ishtar.

    359

    Thus she was in a fair way to become queen of France, as my divine oracle had predicted.

    360

    Thus, at Athens,Apollo Patroos was known as the protector of the Ionians, and the Spartans referred the institutions of Lycurgus to the Delphic oracle.

    361

    To the north lay the lake to which the answer of the Delphic oracle referred, Kiva Kaµapevav, when the citizens inquired as to the advisability of draining it.

    362

    To use this feature, visitors are instructed to think about a question and then click on "Go to the Oracle".

    363

    Tricca in Thessaly and Epidaurus in Argolis disputed the honour of his birthplace, but an oracle declared in favour of Epidaurus.

    364

    Troy he founded, in conjunction with Mopsus, another famous seer, the oracle of Mallos in Cilicia.

    365

    Two projecting cliffs, named the Phaedriadae, frame the gorge in which the Castalian spring flows out, and just to the west of this, on a shelf above the ravine of the Pleistus, is the site of the Pythian shrine of Apollo and the Delphic oracle.

    366

    Under this form the god appeared when he founded the celebrated oracle at Delphi, the name of which commemorates the circumstance.

    367

    Unfortunately, none of them knew what to do with an Oracle.

    368

    Unsuccessful in his search, he came in the course of his wanderings to Delphi, where he consulted the oracle.

    369

    Used as a divination method in ancient China, the oracle bones, found and dated by archeologists and scientists are the earliest records of the symbols used by man to represent the concept of ying and yang.

    370

    Was it, too, unofficial and therefore not recorded in the Oracle's book?

    371

    We all thought she was your sister, not Damian's wife, and I had no idea she was an Oracle until this morning, when she told me to evac the motor pool.

    372

    We found an Oracle, executed some traitors, chased down bad guys, hosted the Quarterly, and are evac-ing soon.

    373

    We will finally be able to build an oracle, and we will use that tool, that collection of life experiences, to optimize our own lives.

    374

    What kind of deal had past-Deidre made that the Oracle didn't record?

    375

    What the hell was an Oracle anyway?

    376

    What's up with your Oracle?

    377

    When a person, referred to as the seeker, asks a question of the oracle, the seeker must think about the answer and how it relates to their particular situation.

    378

    When he was grown up, Cypselus, encouraged by an oracle, drove out the Bacchiadae, and made himself master of Corinth.

    379

    When the Persian war was over the Delphic oracle bade the Athenians fetch the bones of Theseus from Scyrus, and' lay them in Attic earth.

    380

    When the tribe of Dan subsequently sought new territory and sent men to search for a suitable district they passed by Micah's house, recognized the Levite and requested an oracle from him.

    381

    When this powerful oracle was first used, people threw three yarrow stalks and the prediction depended on the pattern formed once they fell.

    382

    Where Claire had been a weak Oracle, Jenn was a mind manipulator.

    383

    Will you … can you have a mate and an Oracle?

    384

    With a last look at the Oracle, Gabe trailed.

    385

    Within it were found a temple of Amphiaraus, a large altar, and a long colonnade, which may have been the dormitory where the patients slept in hope of obtaining counsel in dreams. There were also baths and a small theatre, and numerous inscriptions relating to the arrangement and observances of the sanctuary and oracle.

    386

    Worshippers used to consult the oracle of Amphiaraus by sleeping on the skin of a slaughtered ram within the sacred building.

    387

    Xander had no second thought about the Oracle predicting he'd show up today.

    388

    Xander remembered her older and realized he had always viewed Eden through the eyes of the child who embarked on a journey with the Oracle obsessed with destroying the last Grey God.

    389

    Xander said he spoke to the Oracle, and the Oracle confirmed that one world would die.

    390

    Xander suddenly was tame, compared to an Oracle who read her past and future in two seconds.

    391

    Xander suspected the Oracle warned him only because it interfered in her plans for him.

    392

    Yep. Dusty and Darian will be babysitting my Oracle.

    393

    Yet in one respect Apollo was more dominant in the political life; for Apollo possessed the more powerful oracle of Delphi.

    394

    You are the proud owner of an Oracle.

    395

    You can find all 64 hexagram meanings within the I Ching oracle, the ancient guide for deciphering hexagrams.

    396

    You can find various interpretations to assist you in deciphering the oracle meanings.

    397

    You can use this oracle to gain insights about love and relationships, finances, career planning, and much more!

    398

    You can't check the Oracle?

    399

    You don't leave my sight, Oracle.

    400

    You have a message for me, Oracle, and an answer I seek.

    401

    You know what they say about the inner ring of Hell, Gabe.  Death's words were written on both pages of the Oracle's book.

    402

    You must die first. … an Oracle must be bound … for all eternity … She jerked out of the memory with a cry.

    403

    You must die first. … an Oracle must be bound … for all eternity … You will never hunger for food nor thirst for water.

    404

    You owe the Oracle a can opener that does n't require an opposable thumb.

    405

    You owe the Oracle a can opener that doesn't require an opposable thumb.

    406

    You took her to the Oracle?

    407

    You're a powerful enough Oracle, he said.

    408

    Your Oracle advice sounds like it came out of a fortune cookie.

    409

    Your Oracle and Darian had to do the real work.

    410

    Your skills as an Oracle were terrible, but he would've mated with you anyway, he corrected her.