Example Sentences

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For a long time, this would have seemed as foolish as giving your money to a palmist.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 15, 2017

Ads for Coca-Cola and Tops Snuff, the famed palmist sign itself.

From Washington Post • Jun. 5, 2015

Now see this Robert Adams describes himself as "a palmist" rather than a prophet.

From The Guardian • Apr. 5, 2010

Laider, Kiley is a prescient palmist who foretells the death of four people riding in a railway coach.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Betty at Fort Blizzard by Seawell, Molly Elliot