If, however, the observation regards the dispositions, that occur to the eye, of figures in certain bodies, there will be another species of divination: for the divination that is taken from observing the lines of the hand is called "chiromancy," i.e. divination of the hand ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)
Interested in chiromancy? she said, noting Clarys gaze. ❋ Cassandra Clare (2009)
I have brought the party hither, that you may use palmistry, or chiromancy if such is your pleasure. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Other signs there are taken from physiognomy, metoposcopy, chiromancy, which because Joh. de Indagine, and Rotman, the landgrave of Hesse his mathematician, not long since in his ❋ Unknown (2007)
Sir T. Browne treats of chiromancy, or the art of telling fortunes by means of lines in the hands, in his “Vulgar Errors,” lib.v. cap. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Aristotle, I confess, in his acute and singular book of physiognomy, hath made no mention of chiromancy: 80 yet I believe the ❋ Unknown (2007)
On their right was the tent of the Master of the Mountain, that world-famous fortune-teller by crystals and chiromancy; a rich purple tent, all over which were traced, in black and gold, the sprawling outlines of Asiatic gods waving any number of arms like octopods. ❋ Unknown (2003)
EVERYBODY has heard of the Cave of St. Cyprian at Salamanca, where in old times judicial astronomy, necromancy, chiromancy, and other dark and damnable arts were secretly taught by an ancient sacristan; or, as some will have it, by the devil himself, in that disguise. ❋ Unknown (2002)
You know how by the arts of astrology, geomancy, chiromancy, metopomancy, and others of a like stuff and nature, he foretelleth all things to come; let us talk a little, and confer with him about your business. ❋ Unknown (2002)
At one time, as a young woman in Brooklyn, she had been a serious student of chiromancy, but over the years, like those literary critics who are forced to read so many books that they begin to read hurriedly, superficially and with buried resentment, she had become disengaged. ❋ Robbins, Tom (1976)
Michael Scott studied such abstruse subjects as judicial astrology, alchemy, physiognomy, and chiromancy, and his commentary on Aristotle was considered to be of such ❋ Robert Naylor (N/A)
Quite early in his career he developed a taste for a Bohemian mode of life and is reported to have gained a livelihood by psalm-singing, astrological prescriptions, chiromancy, and even by the practice of the Black Art. He was also keen in acquiring information about popular remedies and nostrums, from travelling mountebanks, barbers, old women, and pretenders of all kinds. ❋ Robert Means Lawrence (N/A)
He wrote extensively on philosophy, mathematics, and medicine, and also on chiromancy. ❋ Robert Means Lawrence (N/A)
Balzac was interested in the occult sciences -- in chiromancy and cartomancy. ❋ Juanita Helm Floyd (N/A)
Now that chiromancy has become so fashionable as to be a part of a great many entertainments, it is very desirable that the hands should present an attractive appearance. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
Besides the religious books and romances concerning the past existences of the Buddha, the libraries connected to the pagodas contain ancient works dealing with astrology, chiromancy, the vulgar Cambodian tongue, and Pali, together with works on education and historical treatises unfortunately relating only to recent times. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)