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Yearbook editors put a wildly unprophetic line from Hamlet under his picture: "Man delights not me; no, nor woman neither."

From Time Magazine Archive

Soon after this unprophetic event Josiah Franklin and Abiah his wife went to live at the sign of the Blue Ball, on what was then the southeast corner of Hanover and Union Streets.

From True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin by Pierce, H. Winthrop

Her simple home, and its peaceful scenes, and lovely enjoyments, were symbols to her mind, not unprophetic of the home of the soul on high.

From Summerfield or, Life on a Farm by Lee, Day Kellogg

Or does thy unprophetic fire Thro' the wide realms of solar day Mad Heat or purple Pestilence inspire?

From Gustavus Vasa and other poems by Walker, William Sidney

Jesus was seventeen years old when Augustus died—Augustus never heard of him, and the Roman's unprophetic mind sent no searchlight into the future, neither did his eyes behold the Star in the East.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 by Hubbard, Elbert