How To Use Scylla In A Sentence
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Without a word Scylla did as she was told, and in a few seconds was half kneeling, half lying on the ground.
Southern Stories Retold from St. Nicholas
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Ajax was as helpless as Odysseus" craft ever was, drifting between Scylla and Charybdis, hoping against hope.
SPLITTING
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How to effect this, given the electronic Scylla and Charybdis hereinbefore mentioned?
A MEANS TO EVIL
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Scylla had once been a beautiful girl pursued by many suitors before she was transformed to a monster.
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After the Sirens are the drifting rocks which must be avoided by taking a route that goes past Scylla, a six-headed monster, and Charybdis, a whirlpool.
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A wrinkle of the nostril was the only answer and a further delay ensued while a message was sent to the Scylla which demanded that His Excellency the Comte de Maquerre be allowed quarters on board the frigate or, preferably, the Vengeance.
Sharpe's Siege
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Pliny does not name the prostitute; the Restoration playwright Nathaniel Richards calls her Scylla in The Tragedy of Messalina, Empress of Rome, published in 1640, and Robert Graves in his novel Claudius the God also identified the prostitute as Scylla.
Archive 2009-06-14
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*** And, when one reads Berlin's qualified praise of Herzen, it's easy to see how he became central to Stoppard's three plays: "Herzen does at least face genuine political problems, such as the incompatibility of unlimited personal liberty with either social equality, or the minimum of social organization and authority; the need to sail precariously between the Scylla of individualist 'atomization' and the Charybdis of collectivist oppression; the sad disparity and conflict between many, equally noble human ideals; the nonexistence of 'objective,' eternal, universal moral and political standards, to justify either coercion or resistance to it; the mirage of distant ends, and the impossibility of doing wholly without them.
Stinky Inky, Part VI: Carlin Romano's April Fools' Joke on His Philadelphia Inquirer Readers
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Gretchen, Whistler and Mahone are working together to ascertain a super secret card called Scylla that serves as the little black book for the Company.
Give Me My Remote
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And such is their method, that rests not so much upon evidence of truth proved by arguments, authorities, similitudes, examples, as upon particular confutations and solutions of every scruple, cavillation, and objection; breeding for the most part one question as fast as it solveth another; even as in the former resemblance, when you carry the light into one corner, you darken the rest; so that the fable and fiction of Scylla seemeth to be a lively image of this kind of philosophy or knowledge; which was transformed into a comely virgin for the upper parts; but then
The Advancement of Learning
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Minos besieged his town and his daughter Scylla cut the lock from his head and offered it to him.
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To do so means navigating between the Scylla of hagiography and the Charybdis of what Joyce Carol Oates called pathography.
'Friendlyvision'
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How to effect this, given the electronic Scylla and Charybdis hereinbefore mentioned?
A MEANS TO EVIL
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Obama is steering his ship right between two rocky promontories, like Odysseus trying to navigate between the dangerous rocks of Scylla and the whirlpool of Charybdis.
Matthew Yglesias » Endgame
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Think of the precedents—Proteus, Scylla… I am certain there is something extremely edifying in the Bible about Leviathan and a hook, and my old nurse, a dour Scotswoman, used to terrify me with stories of kelpies and other devilish creatures that drowned and ate their victims, apart from their livers.
The Mistaken Wife
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Admit it - that reference to Scylla and Charybdis took yoU aback.
A MEANS TO EVIL
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How to effect this, given the electronic Scylla and Charybdis hereinbefore mentioned?
A MEANS TO EVIL
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The waters of Bali, Indonesia, are home to this otherworldly creature peacock mantis shrimp ( Odontodactylus scyllarus ) .
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Think of the precedents—Proteus, Scylla… I am certain there is something extremely edifying in the Bible about Leviathan and a hook, and my old nurse, a dour Scotswoman, used to terrify me with stories of kelpies and other devilish creatures that drowned and ate their victims, apart from their livers.
The Mistaken Wife
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Cars crept down Ninth Street, navigating between the stalls and debris like an urban Scylla and Charybdis.
RUNNING FROM THE LAW
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Admit it - that reference to Scylla and Charybdis took yoU aback.
A MEANS TO EVIL
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The student must be left to steer his own course between this Scylla and Charybdis.
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Being a son of the wilderness, Owen Dugdale had probably never heard of the kindred terrors that used to lie in wait for the bold mariners of ancient Greece -- the rock and the whirlpool known as Scylla and
Canoe Mates in Canada Three Boys Afloat on the Saskatchewan
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The Argo slipped through Scylla and Charybdis, guarded by nymphs.
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His office has been _attorned_ to me by _Saving Scylla_, who would doubtless see his _protracted devotion_ rewarded with that _freedom_ from _concerns_ which is the _perfumed ointment_ of _superannuity_.
Exodus From The Long Sun
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The megalopa of S. serrata has dactyl lower margin on the fifth abdominal segment which is different from three other Scylla species.
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He asks Gretchen to help him find a new buyer for Scylla.
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Though Scylla is bent, harsh, and angry, the source of her rage is not vindictive.
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It was called Scylla and it was located walking distance from my house in a converted Bucktown cottage.
"Top Chef" Sizzles in Chicago for Season Four
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This example demonstrates the two main dangers, the Scylla and Charybdis . Between which we must steer to gain innovations for art.
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There's a Scylla and a Charybdis in interchurch discussions, as in so many other kinds of discussions.
Archive 2007-02-01
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This design job is best thought of in a model-building context in which the validity of rank and the inherent tendency to abuse it are both recognized, and it is everyone's job to steer the ship of state between the six-headed monster of "Scylla" (wimpy ranklessness) and the whirlpool of "Charybdis" (self-aggrandizing rank).
Robert Fuller: Bridging Left and Right: A Foundation for Transpartisan Politics
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Ajax was as helpless as Odysseus " craft ever was, drifting between Scylla and Charybdis, hoping against hope.
SPLITTING
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Michael wakes up and tells Sara that Scylla is the key to limitless solar energy.
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And such is their method, that rests not so much upon evidence of truth proved by arguments, authorities, similitudes, examples, as upon particular confutations and solutions of every scruple, cavillation, and objection; breeding for the most part one question as fast as it solveth another; even as in the former resemblance, when you carry the light into one corner, you darken the rest; so that the fable and fiction of Scylla seemeth to be a lively image of this kind of philosophy or knowledge; which was transformed into
The Advancement of Learning
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Michael And Whistler still try and take down the company, by breaking in to their office and stealing a memory chip called Scylla, this chip contains all the companies information and will provide much needed evidence to destroy the company.
ETV Reviewer
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Beyond the increase in activity of the human kind, the dream of Scylla turning into an underwater haven for marine life looks to be turning to fruition.
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While much of the Scylla still displays the remnants of the original Royal Navy grey paintwork, with patches of rust showing through, the railings have what looks like a fresh coat of silver primer.
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Cars crept down Ninth Street, navigating between the stalls and debris like an urban Scylla and Charybdis.
RUNNING FROM THE LAW
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Ajax was as helpless as Odysseus" craft ever was, drifting between Scylla and Charybdis, hoping against hope.
SPLITTING
