“The philosophers in the first century wrote of gases producing euphoria and of a spring emanating from fissures, or chasms, in the bedrock inside the oracular chamber.”

“It was one of those dire oracular pronouncements that Marko made from time to time, which were afterwards spread from mouth to mouth among the Serbs.”

“His prose is both sinuous and oracular, with a torrent of subordinate clauses cluttering up nearly every sentence.”

“This gives his commands an oraclelike quality that compels the actors to obey.”

“As for equivocations, or oraculous speeches, they cannot hold out long.”