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As for equivocations, or oraculous speeches, they cannot hold out long.

The Essays 2007

If, Mrs. Betty, I had not been used to your oughts, and to have my duty laid down to me by your oraculous wisdom I should be apt to stare at the liberty of you speech.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

Peregrine furnished his friend with the necessary information, and, when the hour of assignation arrived, conducted his charge to this oraculous seer.

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004

For your oraculous purr to set their hearts ablaze.

To a Cat 1996

It is true, we have not, as an ancient people had, Urim and Thummin -- those oraculous gems in Aaron's breast -- from which to take counsel, but we have the unchangeable and eternal principles of the moral law to guide us, and only so far as we walk by that guidance can we be permanently a great nation, or our people a happy people.

The Ontario High School Reader A.E. Marty

It is true, we have not, as an ancient people had, Urim and Thummim -- those oraculous gems on

MacMillan's Reading Books Book V Anonymous

Patches of bushes might even be seen growing in places on the square itself; and here and there were a few tall trees, remnants of the old forest which had once overshadowed the scene towering aloft, and sending forth on the blast such spiritual murmurs, and wild oraculous whispers, as were wont, in ancient days, to strike an awe through soothsayers and devotees in the sacred groves of Dodona.

Nick of the Woods Robert M. Bird

Sixty-five days after that oraculous utterance of the captain, the Kid and I, half stripped, sun-burned, sweating at the oars, were forging slowly against a head wind at the mouth of the Cheyenne, sixteen hundred miles below the head of navigation.

The River and I John G. Neihardt 1927

As for equivocations, or oraculous speeches, they cannot hold out long.

VI. Of Simulation and Dissimulation 1909

It is true we have not, as an ancient people had, Urim and Thummim—those oraculous gems on Aaron’s breast—from which to take counsel, but we have the unchangeable and eternal principles of the moral law to guide us, and only so far as we walk by that guidance can we be permanently a great nation, or our people a happy people.

I. On the English Foreign Policy 1906