549 examples of sibyl in sentences

She was perfectly exposed to the storm; and the wind blowing her dress about her thin figure, and the lightning flashing round her, made her look like Medea alighted from her chariot, or the Sibyl of the tempest that was rolling around her, the only living thing within hail at that moment, except ourselves.

Now it happened that the Ludi Apollinares fell on the same day, and they therefore voted that his natal feast should be held on the previous day, because (they said) there was an oracle of the Sibyl forbidding a festival to be celebrated during that twenty-four hours to any god except Apollo.

Who but these foolish malcontents, these rebels, like" "Like my father and my brother," broke in Sibyl, hotly, as Mr. Merridew hesitated.

"No, no, no!" cried Sibyl, excitedly.

and Miss Sibyl Merridew lifted up her graceful head with a little air of hauteur that was by no means unbecoming to her piquant beauty.

" "So I should judge, madam," retorted the youth, wrathfully; "but perhaps," he went on, "if Miss Merridew will deign to bestow a glance upon this"and the young fellow pulled from his pocket a gold-mounted card and letter case, out of which he took a tablet upon which was written: "Met Miss Sibyl Merridew this morning on the mall.

Alone in the cloak-room, Sibyl wrote her message to Anthony Styles.

"It's Shoemaker Styles," the maid informed Sibyl, "and he says you must come down and try on the slipper he has brought; he's not sure about the heel.

" "And it's all right, and the end will be all right?" faltered Sibyl, anxiously.

When Sir Harry Willing took leave of Sibyl Merridew, he pleaded for some token of remembrance.

" "But whatwhat can I give you, Sir Harry?" asked Sibyl, not a little touched and troubled.

" "Thatthat slipper?" and Sibyl blushed and paled.

Even in distant Rome there sprang up a well or fountain which "ran largely" and the ancient prophetess, Sibyl, looking eastward from the Capitoline hill heard the angel song and saw in vision all the wonders of that night.

Staying his fearless passage then The Captain of that host Spake with strong voice: "We bear to men God's gift the uttermost, Whereof the oracle and sign Sibyl and sages may divine: A star shall blazon in their ken, Borne with us from your post.

MEPHISTOPHELES Incomparable Sibyl cease, I pray!

Hence, of one period of the world's history, she ever speaks with horrorthat "long night of apostasy," during which, like a lone Sibyl, she hid her precious relics in solitary cells, and fleeing from degraded Christendom, sought refuge with the eastern caliphs.

Sibyl Holbrook Strahl (W); 2Nov70; R494371.

Sibyl Holbrook Strahl (W); 30Oct70; R493049.

Sibyl Holbrook Strahl (W); 8Oct70; R491758.

SEE Wilbur, Sibyl. SILVERS, EARL REED.

WILBUR, SIBYL.

Simon & Schuster, Inc. (PWH); 20Sep68; R443848. HOLBROOK, SIBYL.

Sibyl Holbrook (W); 28Oct68; R446774.

Sibyl Holbrook (W); 28Oct68; R446772. HOLDEN, JAMES.

STRAHL, SIBYL HOLBROOK. Burning an empire.

549 examples of  sibyl  in sentences