Pharaoh of that time met a famous magician, half charlatan and half seer who, because she was far-seeing, 'clairvoyante' we should call it, instructed her in his art so well that soon she became his master and forced him to obey her. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)
She placed an advertisement in the Daily Telegraph as a clairvoyante. ❋ Steve (2009)
Robert Kirk, a seventeenth-century “second sight” researcher, author of The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns & Fairies, wrote of a clairvoyante who “took very little or no food for several years past, that she tarried in the fields overnight, saw and conversed with a people that she knew not, and…found herself transported to another place before day.” ❋ Michael Grosso (2004)
Thompson reluctantly agreed, and Hyslop introduced him as Mr. Smith to a clairvoyante, a Mrs. Rathbun. ❋ Michael Grosso (2004)
The cold damp seemed to make even the snakes torpid: for the first time in my life I trod upon one — a clairvoyante having already warned me against serpents and scorpions. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Of all these things I could have told the peculiarities, numbered the flaws or cracks, like any clairvoyante. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Madonna brooding over the mystery of motherhood; the other, more confusedly, tells of the acolyte, the priestess, the clairvoyante of the unknown gods. ❋ Rachel Annand Taylor (N/A)
Well, the power by which that clairvoyante spoke was the lurking distrust within the mind of the girl who stood by with an aching heart, listening to her doom. ❋ Various (N/A)
No sooner does he speak of the daughter, Ginevra by name, than in she comes, jewel-casket in hand, -- which leads the cynical Greek Chorus to suppose that Mademoiselle is either _clairvoyante_ or prefers going about with a box. ❋ Various (N/A)
This is Mrs. Debbs of Liverpool, the famous clairvoyante. ❋ Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 (1926)
The clairvoyante suddenly darted out her finger towards the crowd at the door "It's for the soldier." ❋ Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 (1926)
Voilà l'idée clairvoyante et généreuse qui a groupé vos disciples et qui pénètre de sympathie pour vous vos visiteurs du Vieux-Monde. ❋ Unknown (1922)
I myself have been privileged to look at all these locks of hair, and I have seen a clairvoyante take them one by one, and, pinching them between her lithe fingers, tell of the love that each symbolised. ❋ Max Beerbohm (1914)
Philumena, a sort of clairvoyante who dabbled in magic, and who claimed frequent visions of Christ and St. Paul, appearing under the form of a boy. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
