| 单词 | geomancer |
| 例句 | And some good news: The “Pocket Chinese Almanac 2023,” compiled by a geomancer in Hong Kong, suggests things are looking brighter. Your Friday Briefing: Israel’s New Government 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z Its sequel, Call of Fire, picks up after San Francisco is destroyed in an earthquake in 1906, which nearly kills a geomancer named Ingrid Carmichael. 14 science fiction, fantasy, and horror books to read this August 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z The case of the eccentric billionaire widow and her alleged geomancer lover transfixed Hong Kong. Man jailed for faking Nina Wang will 2013-07-05T06:25:57Z The case of the eccentric billionaire widow and her alleged geomancer lover has transfixed Hong Kong. Chan guilty of faking Nina Wang will 2013-07-04T15:06:49Z Arithmetic to him is like the art of the geomancers in the Arabian Nights,—an art which is able to accomplish every imaginable impossibility. Popular scientific lectures 2012-04-24T02:00:17.273Z This chapter will be devoted to an account of some of the more well-known professions that belong to this doubtful category of professional men, and the first that I shall take is the geomancer. Sidelights on Chinese Life 2012-04-21T02:00:23.993Z Sometimes it is a matter of several years, my guide told me, the geomancers or fortune-tellers being employed all this time in finding a suitable site for a grave. Where Half The World Is Waking Up The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions Not only for the coffins was money required, but also to pay the fees of the geomancers who must decide the site of the graves and an auspicious day for the funeral. The Fulfilment of a Dream of Pastor Hsi's The Story of the Work in Hwochow The geomancer had told them that, and they believed him. Civilization Tales of the Orient And after the geomancers and the necromancers had chosen a burial-spot which no unlucky star could shine upon, a place of rest which no demon or dragon might ever disturb, the beautiful chih was built. Some Chinese Ghosts In the morning thereafter he killed her, and took that part of her which the Greek geomancers know, and cut it into several small pieces as small as he could. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 Another geomancer is then hired and told to find a new grave where the soul will rest in peace. Where Half The World Is Waking Up The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions A geomancer proclaimed that a bamboo grove behind the town formed an angle most correct, germane, and pleasant to the Azure Dragon and the White Tiger, whose occult currents, male and female, run throughout Nature. Dragon's blood A skilful geomancer is desired by a tradesman to cast his horoscope. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 It is not, however, idol worship which sits like a nightmare on China, and crushes atheists, agnostics, and heathens alike, but ancestral worship, and the tyranny of the astrologers and geomancers. The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither It is the custom of the Chinese to bury their dead wherever a geomancer indicates a ``lucky'' place. New Forces in Old China An Inevitable Awakening Had you but revealed the happening fully on your return, capable geomancers might have been consulted. Kai Lung's Golden Hours The geomancers, says Landino, when they divined, drew a figure consisting of sixteen marks, named from so many stars which constitute the end of Aquarius and the beginning of Pisces. Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Complete The geomancer lowers the tradesman down it in a basket, which the latter fills with gold and silver and precious stones, and it is drawn up by the geomancer. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 The man, mistaking him for the tradesman, seized the geomancer and with a sharp awl pierced his eyes, blinding him for ever. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 |
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