1 But for all his habit of making oracular statements and his slightly pompous manner, he was as kindly a man as the town possessed.
2 She began to look hurt, and Carol let her be oracular.
3 But, as he uttered it, it became oracular, the most sacred of words.
4 With twenty sail did I climb the Phrygian sea; oracular tokens led me on; my goddess mother pointed the way; scarce seven survive the shattering of wave and wind.
5 And he: 'Neither did Phoebus on his oracular seat delude thee, O prince, Anchises' son, nor did any god drown me in the sea.'
6 Before his coming even now the kingdoms of the Caspian shudder at oracular answers, and the Maeotic land and the mouths of sevenfold Nile flutter in alarm.
7 "Still waters run deepest, they used to tell me," said Miss Ophelia, oracularly.