sibyl

How To Use sibyl In A Sentence

• By order of the Sibylline books, in 399 B.C., the first _lectisternium_ was held in Rome to combat Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine
• From the thinning mist, Sibyl watched as the serfs outside the outer bailey plowed the acres of harvest-ready grain and whatnot.
• Carstens's Necessity is generally reminiscent of Michelangelo's sibyls, more specifically perhaps of the elderly Persica.
• Sibyl watched as Lady Plymouth's private troubadour began to instinctively pluck strings of the viol.
• In Europe, it's a little bit different," said Sibylle Bucheli of Switzerland, one of about 10 people wearing jackets for the fan club of Swiss biathlete Simon Hallenbarter. At Whistler, there's just no party like a biathlon party
• [_The rampant unrestraint, which is the characteristic of wickedness_.] "Good," said Sibyl, quietly; "and I too. Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life
• She has a kind of sibylline intuition and the right to be irrationally The Life of Reason
• The gods themselves, he maintained, must be consulted as to the necessary measures to avert their displeasure, and he succeeded in getting a decree passed that the decemvirs should be ordered to consult the Sibylline Books, a course which is only adopted when the most alarming portents have been reported. The History of Rome, Vol. III
• Eadem Galli fatentur ac Lentulum dissimulantem coarguunt praeter litteras sermonibus, quos ille habere solitus erat; ex libris Sibyllinis [226] regnum Romae tribus Corneliis portendi; Cinnam atque Sullam antea, se tertium esse, cui fatum foret urbis potiri; [227] praeterea ab incenso Capitolio illum esse vigesimum annum, quem saepe ex prodigiis haruspices [228] respondissent bello civili cruentum fore. C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino
• I have spent a good deal of the last three and a half years researching the Sibyl of Cumae, the pagan prophetess of classical antiquity said by Virgil to write her oracles on leaves.