Standing tall, dressed in black, he was almost the picture of an ancient prophet with his gray, flowing beard.

He went on muttering, looking like an ancient and wrathful prophet of doom.

Moncrieff, raising meters high, greeted the dawn like an ancient prophet.

He had not been vouchsafed some blinding revelation, like an ancient prophet receiving the word of God.

But the most assimilated critics were the ancient prophets of Israel.

Kook often spoke like one of the ancient prophets, but many elements in his thought were modern.

She looks like an ancient prophet, but maybe deserts do that to everyone.

Preston glared out, furious with wrath, like an ancient prophet.

They always put the ancient prophets in jail; that is the way to know a prophet when you meet him.

The ancient prophets announced the arrival of a child with extraordinary powers.