You are as dumb to-day as Grey's celebrated prophetess.

Upon this the identity of Samela is revealed by a convenient prophetess, and all ends happily.

" "Foolish prophetess," I said, striving to laugh.

DEBO`RAH, a Hebrew prophetess; reckoned one of the judges of Israel by her enthusiasm to free her people from the yoke of the Canaanites; celebrated for her song of exultation over their defeat, instinct at once with pious devotion and with revengeful feeling; Coleridge calls her "this Hebrew Boadicea.

It was a matter of indifference to me that this advance was carelessly received, since it satisfied my conscience and her who stirred its depthsnor did my cheek flush at the derisive taunt that followed me from the room after this obligation to self was discharged"Now tattle again, little prophetess," for thus she often alluded to my Hebrew name and its signification, "and produce my squirrel, or look well to your wounded mole!"

The classic Sibyls intone their mystic hymns; the Delphic on her tripod of inspiration, the Erythraean bending over her scrolls, the withered witch of Cumae, the parched prophetess of Libyaall seem to cry, "Repent, repent!

At last she looked up dreamily, musing aloud: "No prophetess, cousin; only a child, nerveless and over-fretted with too much pleasure, tired out with excitement, having played too hard.

And first among them would be that very ancient institution of the cucking-stool; to be employed however, not as of old, against married scolds (for whom those who have been behind the scenes have all respect and sympathy), but against unmarried prophetesses, who, under whatsoever high pretence of art or religion, flirt with their neighbours' husbands, be they parson or poet.