Hadrian

How To Use Hadrian In A Sentence

• But on an evening like this at Hadrian's Wall, in the soft rain and with the cuckoo and the peewit for company, the wild and empty landscape forces a revision of my historical imagination.
• Previous to the building of the Pantheon in its present domical form, during the reign of Hadrian about A.D. 123, the history of the dome is for the most part a blank. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
• I flourish the knife at them as they streak away southwards over Hadrian's Wall, over the chapel of St. Michael and All Angels and out of sight. Excerpt: Raven Summer by David Almond
• Part of the mastery of "Memoirs of Hadrian" is in its reminder that the emperor, like the rest of us, remains imprisoned in a perishable human body. Portrait of Power Embodied in a Roman Emperor
• It cannot have been in the reign of Hadrian, as one authority states; nor in the time of Antoninus Pius, if the second Apology was written in the time of M. Antoninus; and there is evidence that this event took place under M. Antoninus and L. Verus, when Rusticus was praefect of the city. M. Aurelius Antoninus, by George Long, M. A
• From Antioch to Hadrianople, he traversed the wide extent of his dominions with a numerous and stately train; and as he labored to conceal his apprehensions from the world, and perhaps from himself, he entertained the people of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• She remembered the builder of Antinoe, a Roman covered with sores and full of sickness called Hadrian. Lilith’s Dream: A Tale of the Vampire Life
• The overcast and drizzly weather stretched all the way from Hadrian's Wall to the Shetland Islands, making Scots reach for their umbrellas and cardies rather than parasols and bikinis.
• Well, the Vatican should shut up; it's quick enough to condemn Jews for defensive action but I seem to recall was utterly silent during one of the worst genocides of the Twentieth Century (and is now actively trying to 'canonise' the one responsible for that so that he could achieve greater Vatican control of its German churches) hadrian On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
• After leaving the Piazza, we get a glimpse of Hadrian's Mole, and of the rusty Tiber, as it hurries, "_retortis littore Etrusco violenter undis_" as of old, under the statued bridge of St. Angelo, -- and then we plunge into long, damp, narrow, dirty streets. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859