sibylline

How To Use sibylline 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.
• 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
• [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
• 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
• Mrs Atwater, in sibylline style, predicts of Philip: ‘These hands will bring you great fame.’
• But the Sibylline Books burned, along with our fasti of the consuls, the original Twelve Tables, and much else.” Fortune's Favorites
• I once felt that way - before I became a literary legend - ` sibylline muse," `genius's reclusive wife. MOON PASSAGE
• 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