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No vain chiromancer, no juggler of the market-place, but some more potent and mighty magician of India or of Egypt?'

From Last Days of Pompeii by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Good people and worthy citizens of this town," he might say, "behold in me the great master ... prince of necromancers, astrologer, second mage, chiromancer, agromancer, pyromancer, hydromancer.

From German Culture Past and Present by Bax, Ernest Belfort

But Swedenborg must also be an experienced chiromancer, and can foretell my good fortune from my hand.'

From Tales from the German. Volume I. Arwed Gyllenstierna by Velde, C. F. van der (Carl Franz)