He was no prophet of wrath, though living in a corrupt age.

The prophet had said, "O Faithful, drink not" Abu Midjan drank till his heart was hot; Yea, he sang a song in praise of wine, And called it good names, a joy divine.

"I will not think That the Prophet said, Ye shall not drink Of the flowing red.

Seeing the apathy of their own rulers, and knowing, perhaps by dim report, the deeds of Kossuth, they look to him as the Great Prophet and Leader, by whom Policy is at length to be moulded into Justice; and are ready to catch his inspiration before he has uttered a word.

He was the man in all Europe that could best have undertaken to drive six-in-hand full gallop over Al Siratthat famous bridge of Mahomet across the bottomless gulf, backing himself against the Prophet and twenty such fellows.

" It was Tiresias the prophet's council to [3540]Menippus, that travelled all the world over, even down to hell itself to seek content, and his last farewell to Menippus, to be merry.

When he was come near we said to him: 'Come and encamp among us, for in the desert all men are brothers, and we will give thee meat to eat and wine, or, if thou art bound by thy faith, we will give thee some other drink that is not accursed by the prophet.'

One prophet only spake before the King, saying: "The sable birds, O King, are the nights, and the white birds are the days. . ."

This thing the King had feared, and he arose and smote the prophet with his sword, whose soul went crying away and had to do no more with nights and days.

SEER, one who foresees events; a prophet.

There is a popular melodrama, passing in Palestine under the Romans, throughout the course of which we constantly feel the influence of a strange new prophet, unseen but wonder-working, who, if I remember rightly, is personally presented to us only in a final tableau, wherein he appears riding into Jerusalem amid the hosannas of the multitude.

Though the Bromide will never say whether he prefers dark or white meat; though he inflict upon you the words, "Why, if two hundred years ago people had been told that you could talk through a wire they would have hanged the prophet for witchcraft!"

We are called upon to look on him as a divine, a prophet, an oracle in all respects for all time.

The Arabian prophet, ere he passed on, bade the pilgrims warn Friar Dolcino how he suffered himself to be surprised in his mountain-hold by the starvations of winter-time, if he did not wish speedily to follow him.

This may be the Chebar mentioned in the Prophet Ezekiel.

The ruins of Saguntum (oh that I may prove a false prophet!) will fall on our heads; and the war commenced against the Saguntines must be continued against the Romans.

Even David, the man after God's own heart, had no legislative power, but only as he was inspired from above: and he is expressly called a prophet in the New Testament.

On the Home Front the situation shows that a famous literary critic was also a true prophet: O Matthew Arnold!

Well, that implies prophetic sense: And if a British prophet may Adopt their graphic present tense, I would remarkand so forestall

While avoiding as a rule the fashionable rôle of prophet, Mr. Punch is occasionally tempted to indulge in prediction.

Only in the answer of the fighting man, who knows and says little, but is ready for anything, do we find the best remedy for impatience and misgiving: "Soldier, what of the night?" "Vainly ye question of me; I know not, I hear not nor see; The voice of the prophet is dumb Here in the heart of the fight.

that when the waters of the Nile flow into Palestine, a prophet from the West will drive the Turk out of the Arab countries.

The second part was fulfilled by the fact that General Allenby's name is rendered in Arabic by exactly the same letters which form the words "El Nebi," i.e. the Prophet.

My dear friend, if you seek a prophet, here is one; and if you want leadership in your dogma of no slavery north of thirty-six degrees, thirty minutes, here is prophet and leader in one!And, believe me, one with arguments which make her dangerous to one man, two men, or any collection of men.

My dear friend, if you seek a prophet, here is one; and if you want leadership in your dogma of no slavery north of thirty-six degrees, thirty minutes, here is prophet and leader in one!And, believe me, one with arguments which make her dangerous to one man, two men, or any collection of men.