... laid siege to the citadel, till reason gave way, and John surrendered himself to the power of these two imps of darkness. palmistry, phisiognomy, and incantations—by prayer and reading from holy writ, they showed John that gold, not hundreds but thousands ...

... telling fortunes by casting nativities, Cupid's nosegays, dumb cakes, love's cordial, nine keys, physiognomy, cards, dice, palmistry, ring and olive branches, watches, chains. &c, together with full directions for choosing a husband, making the dumb speak ...

... they arrived in the time of Henry 111., they met the taste of the vulgar by pertended skill in astrology and the art of palmistry, bringing with them their native tricks of juggling. That the Gipsies are of the race mentioned can scarcely doubted, when ...

... in Vagrant Act :— Every person pretending to professi, j, tell fortunes, or using any subtle craft, means, or device, by palmistry or otherwise, to deceive and impose upon any of Majesty * subjects. 'The parties are well known in Cheltenham from their ...

... many inhabitants of Ulverston, the game called Mesmerism, which yon are well aware, as great a cheat, as the old game of palmistry, practised by the Fortune Tellers, and travellin- vagabonds. I have not attended the said exhibitions of humbuggery, but ...

... telling fortunes His dupes, chiefly women, were numberless. boasted before the bench of his ability to read future by palmistry and the cards, and threatened to spin spells round the witnesses who had given evidence against him ! Painter's Miseries ...

... as Highflyer's dam only, it may be well to state that the mare is by Cowl (son of Bay Middleton and Crucifix), out of Palmistry, by Sleight-of-hand. It is not very often that a favourite for the Chester Cup is quoted at such a price as that returned ...

... who form every, where the greau st number— because in their view it is to labour that pre-eminence belongs. from •* Modem Palmistry. A* B. Craig, MJL. PROCLAMATION BY THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON. February 10. The Emperor Napoleon has issued the following proclamation ...

... mercy of his God, He may a arise. And though no conjuror, yet he, Like Swift's fam'd wight of old, Full faith protested in palmistry, In dreams—and fortunes told. His life at Ambleside was spent, A hard? mountaineer ; Contented, if he gave content, As guide ...

... Matthews wera for the appellant Serjeant Ballantine took preliminary objection to the wording of the conviction, the words by palmistry or otherwise having been omitted. Mr. Hill suggested that the court had Sir to amend the conviction, course which aaot ...

... with matters that had never been charged against him before. The conviction before the Court never mentioned the words palmistry or otherwise.' The Assistant-Judge stated that at present it would seem that the words of the statute in question covered ...

... fortunes or using any subtle, craft, means, device, palmistry or otherwise, to deceive and impoee upon any of Her Majesty's subjects. The conviction in reciting the section omitted the words 44 palmistry or otherwise, and by this omission, in the opinion ...