例文・使い方で印象づける「oracles」の覚え方
スポンサーリンク...This was enough: popular imaginationhas done the rest; so that since the period of classical antiquity thebushes have been peopled with priestesses emitting oracles and nuns inprayer... 
J. H. Fabre Bernard Miall 「Social Life in the Insect World」
...In this respect there was a strikingresemblance between the rude oracles of the Polynesians, and thoseof the celebrated nations of ancient Greece...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...The ancient Germans believed that there was something holy inwomen, and accordingly consulted them as oracles...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...No human being,except another milkman, may touch him; and he gives oracles to allwho consult him, speaking with the voice of a god...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...Here the Sibyldelivered her oracles, we were told by those who had received themfrom their ancestors, and who kept them even as their patrimony...
Hugh Macmillan 「Roman Mosaics」
...The oracles wereinscribed upon palm leaves; to which circumstance Virgil alludes inhis description of the sayings of the Cumæan Sibyl being written uponthe leaves of the forest...
Hugh Macmillan 「Roman Mosaics」
...Clement ofAlexandria does not scruple to call the Cumæan Sibyl a trueprophetess, and her oracles saving canticles...
Hugh Macmillan 「Roman Mosaics」
...He hadbeen consulting the oracles at Sparta, andHerodotus states that “while he was offeringsacrifice to know if he should march outagainst the Persian, the Sun was suddenlydarkened in mid-sky...
George Chambers 「The Story of Eclipses」
...You may see thispoint more largely handled, and these Arguments more fully answered byPlutarch in his Booke (why Oracles are silent) and IacobCarpentarius in his comment on Alcinous...
John Wilkins 「The Discovery of a World in the Moone」
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