Word: propheteers
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...Story. Jonah the prophet lived in the desert, daily companioned by such birds and beasts as lions, mice, gazelles and ravens, lying down at night with the gentle foxes of Tob. At length, inspired by an angel, he roused Israel to wage against the Aramaeans, a war which turned out most profitably and made his reputation. Honored among all the people, he returned to his mother in Zebulon...
...family, though poor, gave a great feast for him to which they invited Prince Ahab and his daughter, Judith. Through a night of soft blue airs and revelry, under boughs that let fall their petals like odorous snows, Jonah and Judith walked together; and the gaunt prophet, friend of foxes, trembled with love for the pale daughter of a Prince. She, also moved by love, was kind to him; they kissed under a jasmine vine. "I should like to be poor like you," she said. All night, all night, when she was gone, Jonah wandered through the orchards of Zebulon...
...Riff country, the rough mountainous district in the interior of the Spanish Moroccan zone. Allegedly, he is to stand trial by court martial for high treason. The verdict is already known, as is the sentence: Raisuli is not to be executed, for he is a descendant of the Prophet and must not be killed; he is to be condemned to reside for the remainder of his life within the four walls of Abd-el-Krim's palace at Ait Hamara...
...large school 'which adheres to the belief, consciously or not, that all "business cycles" are alike in duration as well as in general theory and phenomena. Hence some "financial services" are already bearish on the stock market and are becoming pessimistic over the business outlook also. No prophet can, of course, be entirely disproved until after the event...
...gospel of arrogant bourgeois nationalism. A cohort of eloquent gesticulators will be dispatched throughout Europe, and behold! the new era. When the whole continent turns Fascist, the international problem will be dead, and internal affairs will run like the proverbial clock-work. A new faith, and Mussolini is its prophet...