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• Besides which he had a difficulty of breathing upon him, and had a convulsion of all his members, insomuch that the diviners said those diseases were a punishment upon him for what he had done.
• His copy of The Diviners was meticulously tabbed and flagged and he had a thick file of all of the emails that the two men had exchanged with each other before this evening.
• When this happens, the help of a diviner or herbalist is sought.
• In one instance, a diviner patiently made 70 individual oracle-bone cracks in order to determine which ancestor was responsible for a living king's toothache.
• After being shaken in their containers, these intriguing objects' resultant relationships are interpreted by the diviner.
• a prefiguration and mystical pointing out of the Pythian divineress, who used always, before the uttering of a response from the oracle, to shake a branch of her domestic laurel. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
• It was here in the 19th century that the famous Xhosa prophet and diviner Nxele attempted a resurrection.
• It was common to find diviners with their forked sticks trying to identify rich seams.
• The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has conducted an ongoing survey of temperatures on the moon's surface through its Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment.
• We have considered the scope for using dowsing as a tool for locating sub-surface archaeology much as water diviners have utilised the technique - with some success - in locating springs and pipes.