How To Use Sibyl In A Sentence
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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
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From the thinning mist, Sibyl watched as the serfs outside the outer bailey plowed the acres of harvest-ready grain and whatnot.
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Carstens's Necessity is generally reminiscent of Michelangelo's sibyls, more specifically perhaps of the elderly Persica.
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Sibyl watched as Lady Plymouth's private troubadour began to instinctively pluck strings of the viol.
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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
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[_The rampant unrestraint, which is the characteristic of wickedness_.] "Good," said Sibyl, quietly; "and I too.
Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life
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She has a kind of sibylline intuition and the right to be irrationally
The Life of Reason
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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
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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
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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.
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What a cliché, thought Sibyl, brushing rouge upon her cheeks very lightly.
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Looking on are the prophets and sibyls, the mysterious seers of man's tragedy.
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The group of rappellers, called Operation Sibyl - in ancient Greece, a sibyl was a fortuneteller - but also known as the Plaza Four, said they had had a tough 25 hours in jail before they were arraigned on felony and misdemeanor charges of assault, reckless endangerment and criminal trespass.
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The Sibylline Books had declared that when a foreign enemy was in Italy, he could be driven out, if the
Plutarch's Lives, Volume II
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Will ran towards the outer courtyard, Sibyl in close pursuit, noticeably slowed down by her thin shoes and bulky dress.
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There's only one other sibyl in my cenoby since Maytera Rose passed on, Maytera Marble.
Exodus From The Long Sun
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This characteristic, aided by the perspicacity which is bestowed upon every jealous woman, perchance enabled her to read the mysterious Sibyl with some approach to exactness.
The Whirlpool
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Sibylle Alexander describes her experience as a protagonist in this story with grace and eloquence.
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This corpse, this woman -- proclaim it to every one -- the sibyl was my mother yes, yes, my own mother!
Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works
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I still adhere to what I said," answered Sibyl Dacy; "and besides, there is another use of a grave which I have often observed in old English graveyards, where the moss grows green, and embosses the letters of the gravestones; and also graves are very good for flower-beds.
Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life
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Sibyl was never in a mood to compete with her, for they each had different opinions and views on how things should come to pass.
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Perhaps, if one extrapolates from Obama's sibylline statement: Mitt Romney gives the impression of being too much of a secularist and not enough a Christian or too much the supporter of a cult?
Denis Lacorne: Secularists Or Christian? The Religious Lives Of American Political Candidates In The Public Sphere
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Prophets and Sibyls, the Ancestors and Ancestresses themselves, and the naked antique genii, turn into architectural members, holding that imaginary roof together, securing its seeming stability, increasing, by their gesture its upspring and its weightiness, and at the same time determining the tracks along which the eye is forced to travel.
The Beautiful An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics
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The transcendentally synthetic quality of this music, blending styles as diverse as the Prophetiae Sibyllarum and the late madrigals, stands in the sharpest possible contrast to what was in other hands already becoming the drily academic stile antico.
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Sibyl was the most gracious, helpful, and generous person to work with.
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At no temple does the miko now act as sibyl, oracular priestess, or divineress.
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series
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The rubato in ‘Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves’ is equivalent to the melodic rubato in Chopin's music, which Hopkins clearly knew and probably tried to play.
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When Aeneas travels to the underworld, as most heroes do, he is accompanied by Sibyl, his guide sent by Apollo.
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The girl's sibylline countenance unnerved viewers who, as one critic put it, were almost ‘repelled by the directness and force of the painting.’
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-- The four chief sacred colleges, or societies, were the Keepers of the Sibylline Books, the College of Augurs, the College of
General History for Colleges and High Schools
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A novelist should be a comfortable, garrulous, communicative, gossiping fortune-teller; not a grim, laconical, oracular sibyl.
My Novel — Complete
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Aventine erected on the cave of the Sibyl and communicating with the profound and sacred breath; taverns where the tables were almost tripods, and where was drunk what Ennius calls the sibylline wine.
Les Miserables
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As they were thought to have made prophecies in pagan times, the classic sibyls are shown just above and below the central panels.
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The three sibyls of the title reminded James that they had once prophesied endless dominion to Banquo's descendants, and saluted him in turn with the words ‘Hail, thou who rulest Scotland!’
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Sibyl glanced back at the rising and falling tides of the English Channel, and sighed with the grace of a heavy heart.
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Sibyl: There really ought to be compensation in cases like this.
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Along the way, he meets a sibyl named Hahn who is unable to go herself but would like someone to find her daughter, another sibyl who ran away to World's End.
Reviews of fantasy and science fiction books
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But who does not know that the power of the sibyl is doubled by the opposition of sex?
Oldtown Folks
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He knew that young married people might have friendships, like his wife's for Lamhorn; but Sibyl and Lamhorn never "flirted" -- they were always very matter-of-fact with each other.
The Turmoil
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Here, before the chapel of St. Louis, Raphael lingered, learning the frescoed Sibyls of its vault so by heart that he almost reproduced them afterward in the Pace at Rome -- that dear Raphael who did not fear being called a plagiarist, his soul was so full of beauty, and he so transfigured whatever he touched with that suave pencil of his that seemed to have been clipped in light for a color.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880
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Voluspa," or Song of the Prophetess, a kind of sibylline lay, which contains an account of the creation, the origin of man and of evil, and concludes with a prediction of the destruction and renovation of the universe, and a description of the future abodes of happiness and misery.
Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities
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Sibyl: if a mirror looks into a mirror, what is there to see?
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With a playful interest, Sibyl remembered what Bridget had done, and following her example, lowered her chest and slipped a hand beneath her bosom to raise it.
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She patted Sibyl's dark head then directed her gaze toward the square opening in the wall.
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Sibyll, between us there are not imparity and obstacle.
The Last of the Barons — Complete
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She came to the conclusion that Bridget and Sibyl Nevile were just children and pulled her mantle over her wet shoulders in a pout.
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Sibyl watched with fascination and stood, straightening her tight-fitting, crimson gown.
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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
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She was to become a lady-in-waiting for a baroness in Norfolk, the end of the English world for Sibyl.
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The supposed connection of the fourth Eclogue with the _Sibylline Books_, and through them, with the sacred wisdom of the Hebrews, of course placed Virgil on a different level from other heathens.
The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius
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It is an inward and sibylline sound of swazzle notes and speaking stones.
A Year on the Wing
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On this westmost promontory of the beautiful land -- the farthest point reached by the oldest civilisation of Egypt and Greece -- the Sibyl stood on her watch-tower, and gazed with prophetic eye upon the distant horizon, seeing beyond the light of the setting sun and "the baths of all the western stars" the dawn of a more wonderful future, and dreamt of a--
Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
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thoroughly sibylline in most of his pronouncements
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The cabarets of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine resemble those taverns of Mont Aventine erected on the cave of the Sibyl and communicating with the profound and sacred breath; taverns where the tables were almost tripods, and where was drunk what Ennius calls the sibylline wine.
Les Miserables, Volume IV, Saint Denis
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He beckoned to them, and while he went from one to another, saying: "The sibyl was my mother -- Zorrillo has murdered my mother," the coffin was borne into the house.
Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works
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Gripping her shoulders, Joyce clenched together her teeth and looked into Sibyl's eyes.
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You will grow up to be quite a reprobate, my scandalous pup—a favourite with the ladies … and the gentlemen, he predicted in a sibylline voice.
Exit the Actress
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I once felt that way - before I became a literary legend - ` sibylline muse," `genius's reclusive wife.
MOON PASSAGE
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The alcalde is a great observer," remarked Fray Sibyla in a meaning tone.
The Social Cancer
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But the Sibylline Books burned, along with our fasti of the consuls, the original Twelve Tables, and much else.”
Fortune's Favorites
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The Sibylline Books were consulted by the "duumviri," and a prediction was found of dangers which would result from a gathering of aliens, attempts on the highest points of the City and consequent bloodshed.
The History of Rome, Vol. I
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Neruda is master of a living world in turmoil, and his expression is at times scarcely more than a sibylline stammer, a primitive muttering.
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So Sibyl proceeded to begin undoing her bodice and chemise.
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It seemed to him that among the Christians Lygia was a kind of sibyl or priestess whom they surrounded with obedience and honor; and he yielded himself also to that honor.
Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero
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Mrs Atwater, in sibylline style, predicts of Philip: ‘These hands will bring you great fame.’
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It is an inward and sibylline sound of swazzle notes and speaking stones.
A Year on the Wing
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Owing to the unusual number of showers of stones which had fallen during the year, an inspection had been made of the Sibylline Books, and some oracular verses had been discovered which announced that whenever a foreign foe should carry war into Italy he could be driven out and conquered if the Mater Idaea were brought from Pessinus to Rome.
The History of Rome, Vol. IV
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The opposite of an oracle in many ways is a sibyl.
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[701] The idea that this number was "chthonic" and a monopoly of the Sibylline utterances was started by
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
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I mean," said Sibyl, "that you have got to reward me for doing your horrid -- _horrid_, dirty work!
Betty Vivian A Story of Haddo Court School
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In 1512-13 Raphael painted above the entrance arch of the Chigi chapel in S. Maria del Popolo a fresco with sibyls and prophets.
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Voluspa," or Song of the Prophetess, a kind of sibylline lay, which contains an account of the creation, the origin of man and of evil, and concludes with a prediction of the destruction and renovation of the universe, and a description of the future abodes of happiness and misery.
Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities
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Sibyl was the most gracious, helpful, and generous person to work with.
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I have a chapter on Shakespeare and Macbeth; there's the chapter about Ancient Greece, a chapter about Delphi and sibyls in Grecian-Roman times.
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Earthy, but not without an edge, Sibyl's cut off her overalls, padded the bottom of her high-waisted shorts and values her handmade 19th-century style work boots.
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It's confessional and ruminative, yet also clipped, ‘teacherly’ and sibylline.
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We call one another sib, which is short for _sibyl_, because _maytera_ is reserved for the sibyl in charge of the cenoby in which we live.
Exodus From The Long Sun
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It's all there, and, thanks to Simak's skilled hand at the wheel, it's all in place: suave, sibylline, swift.
The stars of modern SF pick the best science fiction
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But when at the turn of the hinge the light wind from the doorway stirs them, and disarranges the delicate foliage, never after does she trouble to capture them as they flutter about the hollow rock, nor restore their places or join the verses; men depart without counsel, and hate the Sibyl's dwelling.
The Aeneid of Virgil
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Not that Sibyl could watch them, she was blind, but she liked to listen sometimes, and Nan would narrate what was happening.
KISSCUT
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They inquire of ancient apocalyptic books and oracles, of sibyls and divines, who remembered the future and predicted it in the past: an exercise in retroactive foresight.
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a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions
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The eternally young, fertile bride; the ancient, barren spinster; the siren; the sibyl—she was all these things, all at once, his beloved, the one for whom he denied himself the companionship of mere mortal company, against whom even the breathtaking Muriel Chanler paled.
The Curse of the Wendigo
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The outlaws, aided by an old sibyl, defeat the castle's forces, and it burns to the ground.
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But no lightbulbs appeared over my head, no sibyl sang her song for me.
Songs of Love & Death
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These centrally located narratives are surrounded by alternating images of prophets and sibyls on marble thrones, by other Old Testament subjects and by the ancestors of Christ.
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Sitting up on her knees, Sara started compressions, trying to push life back into Sibyl's heart.
BLINDSIGHTED
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The armies being disbanded, whilst there was both peace abroad, and tranquillity at home by reason of the concord of the different orders, lest matters might be too happy, a pestilence having attacked the state, compelled the senate to order the decemvirs to inspect the Sibylline books, and by their suggestion a lectisternium took place.
The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08
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_ Steering to Cumae, where the Sibyl dwells, Aeneas seeks her cave, whose entrance is barred by bronzen gates, on which is represented the story of Daedalus, -- the first bird man, -- who, escaping from the Labyrinth at Crete, gratefully laid his wings on this altar.
The Book of the Epic
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She is a story teller and through telling stories discovers new meanings, like the ancient forerunners of her profession - the pythonesses, abbesses and sibyls who ‘revealed mysteries’.
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This is how Australians looked to the sibylline travel writer Jan Morris in the 1980s.
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Not that Sibyl could watch them, she was blind, but she liked to listen sometimes, and Nan would narrate what was happening.
KISSCUT
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Droitture explains that her first stones are the sibyls and female prophets; as exemplars of prudent wisdom and fore - sight, they demonstrate that God has entrusted his secrets to faithful and devoted women.
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As neither a cause nor a cure could be found for its fatal ravages, the senate ordered the Sibylline Books to be consulted.
The History of Rome, Vol. I
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When they are to arrive in Italy they are to seek out a prophetess called the Sibyl at Cumae.
