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.
• 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.
• 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
• In 1512-13 Raphael painted above the entrance arch of the Chigi chapel in S. Maria del Popolo a fresco with sibyls and prophets.
• 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
• [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
• The opposite of an oracle in many ways is a sibyl.
• 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
• It is an inward and sibylline sound of swazzle notes and speaking stones. A Year on the Wing