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
• Neruda is master of a living world in turmoil, and his expression is at times scarcely more than a sibylline stammer, a primitive muttering.
• Carstens's Necessity is generally reminiscent of Michelangelo's sibyls, more specifically perhaps of the elderly Persica.
• We visited the so called Elysian Fields and Avernus: and wandered through various ruined temples, baths, and classic spots; at length we entered the gloomy cavern of the Cumaean Sibyl. The Last Man
• 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