| 单词 | palmist |
| 例句 | By the next morning, three separate palmists had examined Bibi’s hand and confirmed that there was, no doubt, evidence of an imminent union etched into her skin. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z For the greater number of her twenty-nine years, Bibi Haldar suffered from an ailment that baffled family, friends, priests, palmists, spinsters, gem therapists, prophets, and fools. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z On her release, Johnson moved to New York, just as the palmist predicted, landing a job as a seamstress in Greenwich Village but spending free time up in Harlem, where she experienced racism firsthand. Review | A psychic said Stephanie Johnson’s life would be tough. She was right. 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z For a long time, this would have seemed as foolish as giving your money to a palmist. The Heroism of Incremental Care 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z Any more psychics, entrail readers and palmists out there, feel free to chime in with your predictions. Facebook's Future Is Bleak, Say Noted Psychics 2012-09-27T19:49:55Z Several palmists had assured him he would be married one day: most of them indeed had assured him he was married already. Poor Relations 2012-02-11T03:04:00.973Z Brown did so; and De Bac placed his forefinger on his wrist, just between what palmists call "the lines of life." The Heart of Denise and Other Tales 2011-12-14T03:00:15.733Z A palmist present with the landowner whispered to him that San�tan had eight gold coins with himself. Chaitanya's Life And Teachings From his contemporary Begali biography the Chaitanya-charit-amrita 2011-11-16T03:00:26.507Z Nor must one feel too scornful of such "superstition" when one recollects how palmists, clairvoyants, and crystal-gazers flourish in London and every other city on the payments of hundreds of well-educated and enlightened people. Stranger Than Fiction Being Tales from the Byways of Ghosts and Folk-lore 2011-07-06T02:00:50.100Z Such places include restaurants, pool rooms, delicatessen stores, candy shops, hair dressing and manicure parlors, barber shops, cigar stores, palmist and clairvoyant parlors, livery stables, and opium dens. Commercialized Prostitution in New York City 2011-06-25T02:00:18.937Z The real object of the young prince was to get his mother to entrust her hand to the palmist, and to be reassured by him as to the dangers which might encompass the queen. The Prussian Terror 2011-05-04T02:00:15.170Z Lord Arthur Savile learns from the palmist that at some period of his life it is decreed that he shall commit a murder. Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z Proserpina was a skilful palmist, and told us our future with a fair degree of success. Cuba Past and Present 2011-04-16T02:00:18.193Z Indeed, it was very nearly incomprehensible: “It is so complicated that it is utterly impossible to understand its meaning save by consulting a palmist.” Economix: Taxes Have Always Been Too Complicated 2011-04-15T14:00:40Z Professional palmists, and fortune-tellers of all sorts, are merely wicked persons who wish to get foolish people’s money!” The Girls of Central High on Track and Field The Champions of the School League 2010-12-27T03:00:15.633Z Now see this Robert Adams describes himself as "a palmist" rather than a prophet. The Polaroid revival 2010-04-05T14:52:00Z He was a devout believer in dream warnings, and he was a patron of palmists, clairvoyants, and astrologers. The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 April 1906 I went to a palmist's once with a lot of the other nurses and that's the first thing he said to me. The Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon I have been told by gypsies, palmists, phrenologists and other swindlers many senseless and incompatible things, but upon two matters they all agreed. My Impressions of America “All these fortune-telling people who have sprung up round Bond Street—I mean the palmists and crystal-gazers, and people like that—do they proceed upon any knowledge whatever, or are they all absolute humbugs?” The Moving Finger It does not follow that because one palmist has been at fault, all palmists are at fault. Byways of Ghost-Land It is just because the body is the true and exact expression of the consciousness in physical matter that the palmist and phrenologist can sometimes give us such remarkable delineations of character. Elementary Theosophy But Ether didn't dare gainsay her, for fear she would put out a palmist's sign, or a notice of s�ances at twenty-five cents a head. The Prisoner Consequently I expect her fate and ours, as the palmists say, will be mixed together while we live on Long Island. The Lightning Conductor Discovers America "I half promised Vera to meet her marvellous new palmist, Madame Zero, at her house this afternoon." The Twelfth Hour “I was once told by a palmist,” I said, “that I had a mysterious and magnetic attraction for men.” Marge Askinforit From the spiritualists and the theosophists to the crystal-gazers and the palmists, all these occult practices are, in reality, merely the result of a more or less intensified desire to communicate with the spiritual worlds. Modern Saints and Seers I feel sure that society ought to suppress with relentless energy all those parlours of the astrologists and palmists, of the scientific mediums and spiritualists, of the quacks and prophets. Psychology and Social Sanity Without an exception all these great men believe in signs and wonders, in witches, palmists, spells and hoodoos. The Root of Evil As she got up, "I see two beautiful children in your hand," added the palmist. The Twelfth Hour “Say, did you ever go down the streets of Boston and notice the number of signs of palmists and astrologers and vacuum cures?” exclaimed Davison. Jewel Weed The nurses and the staff generally at the hospital spent a great deal of time and money on palmists. There was a King in Egypt The palmist professes to point out how to avoid the ills of life. As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home I'm sure that if a palmist had contrived to capture Phil's virtuous little hand, and foretold any such events, my stepsister would have considered them as impossible as monstrous. The Chauffeur and the Chaperon And the palmist smiled archly, then leant back and closed her eyes. The Twelfth Hour They say in the regiment that some fool of a palmist told him to beware of cholera; and I believe the old chap's in a blue funk. The Great Amulet Work was so real and so pressing with us at "The Haven" that I laughed at the picture of Diana's guild with its list of helpers from Debrett, its palmist, and its tea. Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley In London, such a man as himself would have found it difficult to have ascertained at a moment's notice the address of even a famous palmist or fortune-teller. The Uttermost Farthing My world doesn't take much interest in crystal-gazers and palmists, amateur or professional, even when they happen to be handsome women, like the Countess. The Second Latchkey "Within the next few years," answered the palmist cautiously. The Twelfth Hour I was frequently told of persons who could foretell the future by means of palmistry, but was never able to see a palmist at work, or to verify the information. The Wild Tribes of Davao District, Mindanao The R. F. Cummings Philippine Expedition We have tea, and I've engaged a palmist, who tells us what will happen to our friends at the front and how the war will end. Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley My palmist and my best recipes are sacred to me, Mrs. Tweksbury. The Shield of Silence The palmist, he said, sir, he seen a little woman in my hand as would follow me around like a poodle dog. Betty at Fort Blizzard The palmist had also told her—and this was really rather curious—that she would meet, when abroad, a foreign woman who would have a considerable influence on her life. The Chink in the Armour It is a very interesting thing, although most of us haven't a great deal of confidence in the revelations which the palmist finds there in the lines and the high places and the low places. Crayon and Character: Truth Made Clear Through Eye and Ear Or, Ten-Minute Talks with Colored Chalks A convenient arrangement—it is possible to transfer oneself from the manicurist to the palmist without the trouble of putting on one's gloves. The Gay Lord Quex A Comedy in Four Acts A palmist had revealed something quite amazing to the flapper, but she refused to tell what it was, with a significance that left Bean in a tumultuous and pleasurable whirl of cowardice. Bunker Bean But Missis McGillicuddy don't follow me around like a poodle dog, as the palmist, and the mind reader, and the dream book said she would. Betty at Fort Blizzard Not long before this, her first visit to Paris, a London acquaintance had taken her to see a noted palmist named "Pharaoh," in Bond Street. The Chink in the Armour We laugh at the mistakes which the palmist makes, even though we think seriously of the true things she speaks. Crayon and Character: Truth Made Clear Through Eye and Ear Or, Ten-Minute Talks with Colored Chalks Have you had your hand read yet, madam, by any of these palmists? The Gay Lord Quex A Comedy in Four Acts An astonishing number of them consult palmists, soothsayers, and fortune tellers. A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil I went to a palmist and paid him a dollar for my horrorscope. Betty at Fort Blizzard It's like the palmist who tells everybody that he is ruled by his head or his heart, as the case may be. The Altar Steps But we don't need to go to the palmist to find out what is really in our hands—to find out the real story they have to tell. Crayon and Character: Truth Made Clear Through Eye and Ear Or, Ten-Minute Talks with Colored Chalks "I see many strange things here," said the palmist, in a brooding tone. The Goose Girl "You have a heart line," said the palmist to one of them—"a heart line like a windmill!" Kings, Queens and Pawns An American Woman at the Front A first-class palmist had told her this only two weeks before. Ma Pettengill He has the bad taste bred in the bone of all missionaries and palmists, the sign-manual of a true quack. Emerson and Other Essays Did you ever see a palmist read a hand? Crayon and Character: Truth Made Clear Through Eye and Ear Or, Ten-Minute Talks with Colored Chalks "They are always going to palmists to have their hands read." Toaster's Handbook Jokes, Stories, and Quotations But that is enough to show me Uncle's hand as plainly as if I were a palmist. The Lady and Sada San A Sequel to the Lady of the Decoration Often the other tenants of the building are fortune tellers, palmists, "trance mediums," and like undesirables. What eight million women want The best conjurers, magicians and palmists in India are fakirs. Modern India I shouldn't even have worn mourning, if Madame Vestris, the great palmist in San Francisco, hadn't told me it would bring me ill luck not to. The Port of Adventure "Personal charm," said I. "The palmist who sits where the draughts are in the Brown Park Hotel, West Central, said I had a magnetism of my own." The Brother of Daphne As a girl, a gypsy woman named Burton, told Isabel Arundell that she would marry one of the palmist's name, would travel much, and receive much honor. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 I went to Jenny Martin last Tuesday, the palmist, you know, that every one's mad about. The Beautiful and Damned There are mountebanks, and palmists, and fortune-tellers, who will frighten you out of your wits for a shilling. London Pride Or When the World Was Younger "A sister manicurist, I expect," Julien replied scornfully; "a palmist, or some creature of that sort." The Mischief Maker So she'd come up to see a palmist, or some kind of an expert about him. Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution Why, you see, I am a solist—like a palmist you know—but as to feet. Ptomaine Street "Edwin's going to marry a palmist," I said. A Wodehouse Miscellany Articles & Stories Latin races are haunted by dread of the Evil Eye; advertisements of palmists, astrologers and crystal-gazers fill columns of our newspapers. Tales of Bengal The thought of George consulting a palmist was decidedly entertaining. A Rogue by Compulsion But neither of these expressions is quite so bad as that dreadful thing you always find in American books, and that lots of people have caught up—especially palmists and manicures—mentality.' Tenterhooks We think of palmists and spiritualists in the police-courts as we read of Rutilianus and the Roman nobles consulting the impostor Alexander. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01 Owing to this passion for palmistry in polite circles, I have discovered that I possess as many characters as there are palmists. Without Prejudice "There are enough waiting now to keep the palmist busy until the entertainment begins, and after that you must take your chance with the others." Glenloch Girls A beautiful palmist, for whom George deserted his business at eleven in the morning, was just the sort of person who might prove extremely interesting to me. A Rogue by Compulsion Or perhaps there would be a great pianist, or a palmist, or a trance medium. The Metropolis A card was put in her hand, telling her that a palmist could be consulted on the next floor. Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl I had my fortune told years ago, and the palmist said that if a certain line had had a bend in it I should have been hanged. Tish What did the palmist lady tell ye out of me hand? The Four Million It was partly that which first gave me the idea of becoming a palmist. A Rogue by Compulsion One young lady, who was proud of herself as a palmist, set out to study their “lines.” The Angel and the Author, and others For, like other professional palmists, every time he worked the Heart Line too strongly he immediately moved along the Line of Least Resistance. Waifs and Strays Part 1 They became expert physiognomists and excellent judges of human nature, and were thus able to foretell futures with the same shrewdness and by the same methods as the modern "mediums," palmists, and fortune-tellers. A History of Science — Volume 2 I see," says the palmist, "a great deal of sorrow and tribulation with one whom ye cannot forget. The Four Million It would be idle to take up in any detail the claims of phrenologist and palmist. The Foundations of Personality Mrs. Irvin has decided to consult a palmist or a hypnotist or some such occult authority before dining with you this evening. Dope The adversity consisted of the stranded San Salvador Opera Company, a period of hotel second-story work, and then a career as a professional palmist, jumping from town to town. Waifs and Strays Part 1 His name," says the palmist, thoughtful looking, "is not spelled out by the lines, but they indicate 'tis a long one, and the letter 'o' should be in it. The Four Million Look out," goes on the palmist, "for a dark man and a light woman; for they'll both bring ye trouble. The Four Million With that I relates the facts about the palmist lady and how the finger of suspicion points to him as an instrument of good fortune. The Four Million Above this a polyglot babel of signs struggled to indicate the abodes of palmists, dressmakers, musicians and doctors. The Four Million |
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