prophet-woman

Updated: May 18, 2025

Philammon felt too much respect, both for his age and his stately sadness, to break the silence. At last some louder burst of merriment than usual aroused him. 'What do you call that? said he, speaking in Greek. 'Folly and vanity. 'And what does she there the Alruna the prophet-woman, call it? 'Whom do you mean? 'Why, the Greek woman whom we went to hear talk this morning.

Charles Kingsley - Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face

Miss Lavinia fingered a shoot of the vine that had fallen across her thin old knees with a softened expression in her prophet-woman face, while something new and sweet stirred in Everett's breast and woke in his tired eyes, as across half a century was wafted the perfume of a shattered romance.

Maria Thompson Daviess - Rose of Old Harpeth