| 单词 | Charybdis |
| 例句 | In those waters was that most perilous strait guarded by Scylla and Charybdis, which the Argonauts had succeeded in passing only because Thetis helped them and where Ulysses had lost six of his men. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “Only way into the Sea of Monsters. Straight between Charybdis and her sister Scylla.” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z A sea peril next awaited them—the passage between Scylla and Charybdis. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to run after him, but the ship lurched again—and then I saw Charybdis. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z "Clarisse,” I said, "Charybdis sucks up the sea. Isn't that the story?” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z The third hit one of Charybdis s retaining bands and shot back at us, snapping the Ares flag off its pole. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z As we got closer to the monsters, the sound of Charybdis got louder and louder—a horrible wet roar like the galaxy’s biggest toilet being flushed. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Every time Charybdis inhaled, the ship shuddered and lurched forward. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z As near as I could figure, it took Charybdis about three minutes to suck up and destroy everything within a half-mile radius. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z The broken Ares flag raced past us and lodged in Charybdis s braces. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z It’s a Charybdis!” — the comparisons to Harry & Co. grows. ‘Sea of Monsters’: Promising start, good cast give movie lift 2013-08-07T18:18:40Z Q: There’s a lot of opportunity with “The Odyssey” to write material inspired by monstrosity, whether it’s Scylla and Charybdis or the Cyclops. Q. and A.: Chris Potter on ‘The Sirens’ 2013-02-05T17:18:12Z Sing to me of the Cyclops, the Sirens, Calypso and Circe, Scylla and Charybdis, of challenges confronted and conquered, destiny delayed and at long last achieved. Lost in the Odyssey 2011-08-19T18:55:00Z She steers ably between the Scylla of cynicism and the Charybdis of romanticism, achieving an authentically original voice and, perhaps more startlingly, an authentically original perspective. How a Mystery Illness Cost One Writer a Decade of Health 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z How do you like that for a Scylla and Charybdis? Where are the women Kerouacs? 2013-03-13T22:28:00Z The result, he said, was to put writers and directors “between Scylla and Charybdis — between censorship or self-censorship.” Russian Artists Face a Choice: Censor Themselves, or Else 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z Movies about public figures—ones whose appearance, diction, and gestures are deeply ingrained in the minds of most likely viewers—must confront the Scylla of impersonation and the Charybdis of unfaithfulness. The Authentic Joy of “Southside with You” 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z When it came to the customer experience, however, the opera house had to contend with the Scylla and Charybdis of modern renovation: accessibility and historical heritage. The Sydney Opera House Goes Quiet. Finally. 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z Farrell finds his way between Scylla and Charybdis by the simple expedient of not looking to the right or left, but sailing straight on regardless. Colin Farrell Joins the League of High-Profile Narrators of ‘A Portrait of the Artist’ 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z In Texas, Dominion is also currently building the Charybdis, the first Jones Act-compliant offshore wind-installation vessel and says it strongly supports the Act. American boat patrols waters around new offshore wind farms to protect jobs 2023-07-15T04:00:00Z In Texas, Dominion Energy is building the first U.S.-based offshore wind installation vessel, the Charybdis. A ship for windpower is taking shape in Lousiana oil country 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z A notable exception is “Scylla & Charybdis,” mythic sea monsters represented here by two carved chunks of alabaster, one milky and the other glassy. Review | In the galleries: Exploring a sense of place in a shifting world 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z For many long minutes, those covering the show in real time were trapped between the Scylla and Charybdis of congratulatory awe and potentially backlash-provoking faux pas. Column: How did Rihanna pull off her big-reveal heist of the Super Bowl? 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z Mandatory infringement works to place competitors between Scylla and Charybdis, forcing them out of the market and thereby harming consumers. Op-Ed: Prevent a legal catch-22 that could push thousands of generic drugs off the market 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z I don’t expect you to say “between Scylla and Charybdis” but could you please say “between a rock and a whirlpool” instead? Rant & Rave: Vegetarian, vegan food doesn’t need to be spicy 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z In other words, the middle path, the tightrope walk, the threading of Scylla and Charybdis. The problem with positive psychology: When the pursuit of happiness regresses into toxic positivity 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z Investors seeking to steer clear of the twin hazards of rising inflation and falling bond prices might feel as if they’re being asked to navigate between the mythological sea creatures Scylla and Charybdis. Surging Inflation and Volatile Bond Prices Are Challenging Investors 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z Especially when contemplating prospects for life on distinctly alien worlds such as the ocean moons of the outer solar system, researchers must carefully navigate between these two interlinked hazards—the Scylla and Charybdis of astrobiology. New Approach Could Boost the Search for Life in Otherworldly Oceans 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z In fact, the Charybdis is also being leased by Orsted for work on wind farms off New England. Opinion | Dominion Energy is embracing offshore wind. It’ll be a break for the Chesapeake Bay region. 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z As he did in his efforts on police brutality, Scott navigated between the Charybdis of sloppy anti-Americanism on the left and the Scylla of willful ignorance on the right. Scott takes the lead 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z In other words, to navigate the economy between the Scylla of a bubble and the Charybdis of a severe slowdown. Analysis | China’s slowdown is the biggest threat to world economy 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z Yes Plz aspires to navigate between the Charybdis of coffee snobbery on one side and the Scylla of office-kitchen swill on the other. Yes Plz delivers news with its morning coffee 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z We passed through the Strait of Messina—where Odysseus had to navigate between the man-eating monster Scylla and the whirlpool Charybdis. A Father’s Final Odyssey 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z Finally, the Ryan plan was designed to navigate the Scylla and Charybdis of the congressional budgeting process. Paul Ryan’s Health-Care Vise 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z Swirling between the Scylla and Charybdis of this weird presidential race, the poor voter may find himself caught up in a whirlpool of second, third and fourth thoughts, with still more to come before November. Editorial Roundup: Recent editorials in Arkansas newspapers 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z “Genius,” Michael Grandage’s stalwart if staid biopic about literary editor Maxwell Perkins and author Thomas Wolfe, largely sidesteps the Scylla and Charybdis of inertia and burlesque through which any film about an artist must pass. Colin Firth plays the self-effacing literary editor Maxwell Perkins in ‘Genius’ 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z His books succeed both as narratives and as arguments about our organic selves, holding steady between the Scylla of abstruseness and the Charybdis of reductiveness. When we unlock the secrets of our genes, what do we do with that knowledge? 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z It’s a classic Catch-22, caught between the Scylla and Charybdis of the rating system and acceptance rates. Uber is a nightmare: They’re selling a big lie — and the New York Times keeps buying it 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z To reassure his wife, he made the maps under the name of Karybdis, a pseudonym based on the Greek sea monster Charybdis, which he had used in various online forums for years. Watching War: Online Mapmakers Chart Syrian Conflict 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z The essence is that politicians steer too close to either the Scylla of reunification or the Charybdis of formal independence at their extreme peril. Taiwan prepares for turmoil as China watches its elections from afar 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z Scylla and Charybdis were sea monsters who assumed the forms of a rocky shoal and a whirlpool respectively on either side of the Strait of Messina between Sicily and the Italian mainland. Greece's debt crisis explained, in mythological terms 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z But it is probably unwise to venture beyond the shores of common sense, for it isn’t long before you encounter either Scylla or Charybdis. Why ‘Natural’ Doesn’t Mean Anything Anymore 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z That Ithaca was a Danish island, and that the strait between Scylla and Charybdis was in fact Moskstraumen, a strait far to the north of Norway. Karl Ove Knausgaard Travels Through America 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z Wearing his ski vest with its Eagle Club patch, Taki carries on like he’s the club’s own Scylla and Charybdis. Gstaad: The Last Resort 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z He appropriately frames the piece around the mythological challenge of navigating between Scylla and Charybdis — finding ways to boost energy access while limiting greenhouse gas emissions. Building Sustainable Energy Access, from the Outside In 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z Because Mr. Draghi is steering through Scylla and Charybdis, with radically different outcomes for Europe on either side. The Conflict Between Germany and the E.C.B. That Threatens Europe 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z Balancing the need to not offend OEM partners while giving Surface the push it needs to succeed with consumers places Microsoft between Scylla and Charybdis. Incremental Improvements Make Microsoft Surface Better, But Go-To-Market Strategy Will Determine Success 2013-09-23T15:08:00Z Any way to conduct ourselves that steers adroitly between the shoals of Scylla and the vortex of Charybdis? What Network Can You Trust? 2013-09-04T15:18:00Z “We are right between the rock and the hard place, or, if you’re a literary type, between Scylla and Charybdis,” said Frederic M. Umane, the president of the city’s Board of Elections. New York City Wants to Revive Old Voting Machines 2013-05-29T20:32:36Z In the meantime Captain Crouch, seated on the stern seat of the last boat to leave the ship, found himself--as the saying goes--between the hammer and the anvil, between Scylla and Charybdis. Submarine U93 2012-04-07T02:00:34.693Z State allegiance had to be directed between the Scylla of a monarchical restoration and the Charybdis of nominally republican personal government. The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Chu I 2012-04-04T02:00:55.303Z He will then abandon the iron in the armature, and he will get from the Scylla to the Charybdis. The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla With special reference to his work in polyphase currents and high potential lighting 2012-03-28T02:00:22.660Z The sound of the rushing waters whirling around Charybdis made all on board tremble with fear, and the pilot steered nearer still to dread Scylla’s den. Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art 2012-03-27T02:00:24.357Z The missionaries, however, seemed to be trying to stir between Scylla and Charybdis. The History of the Negro Church 2012-02-24T03:00:22.860Z We stand between a social Scylla and Charybdis. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z From the monster Charybdis, too, Ulysses escapes by extraordinary presence of mind and courage. The Moral Instruction of Children 2012-02-02T03:04:33.057Z Ulysses between Scylla and Charybdis.An exemplification of Satan straitened in his passage to Light. The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume I (of 3) 2012-01-18T03:00:13.193Z The rest passed on unharmed; but since then, in speaking of conflicting dangers, it has been customary to use the expression, “falling from Charybdis into Scylla.” Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art 2012-03-27T02:00:24.357Z Who the day through had steered her by the Charybdis of otherwise certain mistake, and past the Scylla of otherwise inevitable blunder? Emmy Lou's Road to Grace Being a Little Pilgrim's Progress 2012-01-12T03:00:14.550Z An Irishman, when not stranded on the Scylla of indolence, is certain to flounder headforemost on the Charybdis of enthusiasm; and, of the two dangers, the latter is generally the worst.' My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z We passed the famous Charybdis, in which a multitude of dolphins were disporting themselves. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-02T03:00:25.873Z Is there a passage between Scylla and Charybdis? Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History 2012-01-01T03:00:07.953Z Charybdis’ den lay under a rock crowned with a single wild fig tree; and three times daily she ingulfed the surrounding waters, drawing even large galleys into her capacious jaws. Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art 2012-03-27T02:00:24.357Z And I’ll close out the blogging year with his assessment of Searle’s aim, which, he writes: …is to find a via media between the Scylla of dualism and the Charybdis of materialism. There's Something Wrong with the Philosophy of Mind 2011-12-31T19:37:27Z Placed between Scylla and Charybdis, between Manasseh and his manservant, he felt he could sooner face the former. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z During the first night out we passed between Scylla and Charybdis. In Pastures New 2011-12-23T03:00:12.717Z For then it could be said of her: "She fell upon Scylla while trying to avoid Charybdis." The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book 2011-12-08T03:00:22.847Z He is now fairly between Scylla and Charybdis; he must fall upon one; and which does he choose? Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete 2011-10-12T02:00:45.373Z Charybdis, kar-ib′dis, n. a dangerous whirlpool between Italy and Sicily, and opposite to Scylla, the two together providing a proverbial alternative of ruin hardly to be escaped. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) 2011-10-11T02:01:08.990Z Sometimes the disappointment made her positively ill; always it left her tossing between the Scylla and Charybdis of terrible alternatives. Denis Dent A Novel 2011-10-04T02:00:16.973Z It is the part of fools to fall upon Scylla in striving to avoid Charybdis. Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume II (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte 2011-10-01T02:00:34.837Z To pass from Maple to Ireton, was to fall from Scylla to Charybdis!' The Wanderer (Volume 3 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:28.670Z They say that Charybdis was a very ravenous woman, who stole Hercules’s oxen. The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies 2011-09-12T02:00:29.450Z That passed, a Scylla in the form of rushes Nods to Charybdis which in ruts appears: He will be safe who in the middle steers; One step aside, the ball destruction brushes. Poems on Golf 2011-09-08T02:00:19.780Z Yet the musical Hercules is beset with a Charybdis as well as a Scylla. How to Write Music Musical Orthography 2011-09-01T02:00:19.133Z Is it surprising then, that she found it difficult to steer her course between the rocks of Scylla and the whirlpools of Charybdis? Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume I (of 2) 2011-08-14T02:00:25.307Z Off he went, having bribed Scylla, but he met Charybdis in the gateway, where he came plump on the Bailiff. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z Over against this rock is the whirlpool of Charybdis, about which the poets relate a similar fable. The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies 2011-09-12T02:00:29.450Z They had seen the Cataracts and wondered at them, especially at the terrible Nenasytets, which devoured every year a number of people, like Scylla and Charybdis of old. With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. 2011-08-12T02:00:19.797Z It was our desire to avoid both Scylla and Charybdis—to treat the subject with an unbiased mind—to get the real facts, and then propound, if possible, a solution to the problem. The Mormon Puzzle, and How to Solve It 2011-07-21T02:00:23.213Z It would avoid on the one hand the Scylla of needless collision with Roman authority, and on the other the Charybdis of Zealot turbulence. Religion and the War 2011-07-18T02:00:22.307Z Might it not well be that, escaping Scylla, they were sailing into the whirlpool of Charybdis? House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court 2011-07-15T02:00:24.257Z The ancients placed Scylla and Charybdis in the straits of Messina. The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies 2011-09-12T02:00:29.450Z They tried to escape both the Scylla and the Charybdis of religious and political contentions, but in early days narrow was the way. Revisiting the Earth 2011-07-12T02:00:36.337Z Here, however, a dramatist meets his Scylla and Charybdis. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z But he is always between Scylla and Charybdis. The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 2011-06-29T02:00:28.167Z The threefold ebb and flow, the howling of the monster Scylla, the whirlpools of Charybdis, the floating rocks—all tell us that we are quitting here the region of truth. Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens 2011-06-24T02:00:15.873Z It was a case of falling on Scylla when trying to avoid Charybdis. The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny 2011-06-22T02:00:20.120Z And didst thou then encounter and escape Scylla's dread arms, Charybdis' frightful jaws? Virginia, A Tragedy And Other Poems 2011-05-26T02:00:17.117Z He yields to Scylla, if he does not write any such scene; to Charybdis, if he writes such a scene but does not advance his play by it—that is, if he merely marks time. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z Gradually we make our way through the Straits, sailing between Scylla and Charybdis, which for the modern traveller has no terrors. Cities of the Dawn 2011-05-13T02:00:10.047Z Clarence saw the two houses and began to feel like a mariner of old between Scylla and Charybdis. The Squatter and the Don 2011-03-27T02:00:13.400Z But while avoiding Charybdis he fell into the clutches of Scylla; for, as I said above, he was taken on his way to our house, and dragged to London. The Condition of Catholics Under James I. 2011-03-09T03:00:42.087Z It was a real Scylla and Charybdis for him. More Tales by Polish Authors 2011-03-04T03:01:05.113Z Between the Scylla of his master's wrath, and the Charybdis of his willful little mistress, poor Jupiter knew not which way to steer. Sharing Her Crime 2011-03-04T03:00:54.907Z "What a lovely man!" said Charybdis on the left. Mrs. Fitz 2011-02-14T03:00:38.317Z I believe that is the Charybdis on which one runs when one steers clear of the Scylla of religious folly.——Let's sit down under this beech tree. The Awakening of Spring A Tragedy of Childhood 2011-02-13T03:00:19.567Z They might swim round and round, as in the vortex of Charybdis, until sheer exhaustion should reduce them utterly. Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops 2011-02-10T03:00:44.790Z Above all, let him not try to speed his course through the straits of Sicily, for here the dread monsters Scylla and Charybdis keep the way. Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman 2011-02-06T03:00:58.870Z If the Scylla of stupid superstition was dangerous, the Charybdis of arrogant scepticism is destructive. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z “With obese women we are stuck between Scylla and Charybdis,” Dr. Minkoff said. Obese Mothers a Burden on Hospital Resources 2010-06-05T17:59:00Z Newsweek and Time were once the Scylla and Charybdis of American journalism: large and fearsome. Washington Post selling Newsweek to staunch losses 2010-05-05T15:41:00Z Charybdis was an avaricious woman, who, stealing from Hercules, was slain by him, and became one of the divinities of the sea. Heathen Mythology Mile after mile the quick water held, with only the shortest of reaches between Scylla and Charybdis for the breath-catching. Stranded in Arcady These are the Scylla and Charybdis of the critic's career. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 Once again the British government has been driven from the Scylla of healthy Anglo-Saxon moral indignation to the Charybdis behind that illuminating phrase—“India needs the money.” Drugging a Nation The Story of China and the Opium Curse The violent eddies in the currents there, and the sudden approach and collision of the large masses of ice, reminded us forcibly of the poet's description of Scylla and Charybdis. Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea "Who, as they sung, would take the prisoned soul, And lap it in Elysium: Scylla wept And chid her barking waves into attention, And fell Charybdis murmured soft applause." Heathen Mythology Then Antonio has so many rooms dependent on him, that every door is a Scylla, and every window a Charybdis, as he passes. To Cuba and Back Here are the Scylla and the Charybdis between which human society must pick its devious way. The Holy Earth Down, down the boiling, foaming, roaring descent he sped, plying his oar with all his might, lest in turning a frothing Scylla he might be hurled upon a threatening Charybdis. Harper's Round Table, September 17, 1895 You must not founder in the Charybdis of an autocratic one. Thirty Escaping from war, we rush upon the opposite peril,—as from Charybdis to Scylla. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 I enjoyed it; Ulysses, too, probably enjoyed his trip between Scylla and Charybdis—after it was over! The Brain In this matter he is between two dangers and must steer his course wisely to avoid the rocks of his Scylla and Charybdis. How to See a Play At the sides, also, upon two other pedestals, are Scylla and Charybdis in the forms of two monsters, fashioned very well, with heads of Dogs and Furies about them. Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol 08 (of 10) Bastiano to Taddeo Zucchero The dread of Scylla, as is usual, wrecked her on Charybdis. Coelebs In Search of a Wife God forbid that we rush now upon this peril,—as from Charybdis to Scylla! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 You would have thought, by the confusion it caused in the river, and the whirlpools it made, that Scylla and Charybdis, and their whole progeny, had left the Mediterranean, and come and settled here. Wanderings in South America There is no simple rule of safety: between Scylla and Charybdis the mariner must steer as best he may. Logic, Inductive and Deductive Scylla, Miss Betsey, went with them, or Charybdis, the houseboat party, would have to decline Tom Curtis's offer to tow them up the Rappahannock River. Madge Morton's Trust Scylla and Charybdis were dangerous rocks and whirlpools on opposite sides of the strait of Messina. Minor Poems by Milton And finally, take care not to rush from Charybdis to Scylla. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 Pray do not delay an instant, or she will imagine that some dire calamity has befallen her knight, who, in hunting a siren, encountered Scylla or Charybdis. Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part The room was a modern presentation of Scylla and Charybdis. The Blue Goose How could they escape between Scylla and Charybdis? Timar's Two Worlds “Scylla and Charybdis!” he muttered, nervously, glancing about for means of escape. Mistress Nell A Merry Tale of a Merry Time A phantom is created, and, to avoid this phantom, we rush towards concession and compromise,—as from Charybdis to Scylla. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 In the Jewish people we see Nature steering one of her cargoes of differentiated humanity between the Scylla and Charybdis of the modern sea of industrial civilization. Nationality and Race from an Anthropologist's Point of View Being the Robert Boyle lecture delivered before the Oxford university junior scientific club on November 17, 1919 Scylla, the bar, stimulated to the daring of Charybdis across the way, and Charybdis, the roulette, sent its winners to celebrate success, or its victims to deaden the pain of loss. The Blue Goose In the Mediterranean itself the Sirens beguiled the passers-by with their songs near where Naples now stands; adjoining were Scylla and Charybdis; in Sicily were the one-eyed Cyclops and cannibal L�strygons. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition In escaping Scylla he had plunged headlong into Charybdis. Stories by American Authors, Volume 10 Therefore, in escaping from military power, care must be taken that we do not run upon the opposite danger,—as from Charybdis to Scylla. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 But the Scylla and the Charybdis of fiction-writing may both be avoided. Materials and Methods of Fiction With an Introduction by Brander Matthews But this was plunging from Scylla into Charybdis, for it inferred that the Stuarts inherited the heavenly-gifted touch by descent. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors Road-making policy fluctuated between the Scylla of local neglect and the Charybdis of centralized jobbery. The Railway Builders A Chronicle of Overland Highways Scylla and Charybdis are stationary now, and the gaping chasm has swallowed us upward, where we reach an opening into a wide park, a veritable fairyland. Trail Tales Of course the fable of Scylla and Charybdis is ancient; but this verse cannot be traced to antiquity. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 They are the Scylla and Charybdis of Authors; those who escape one, often fall by the other. Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare Thus the Church steered a middle course between the Scylla of co-existence and the Charybdis of identity. Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology There let them warble in the tainted breeze, 75 Or sing like widow’d orphans to the trees: There let them chant their incoherent dreams, Where howls Charybdis, and where Scylla screams! The Poetical Works of William Collins With a Memoir For that sagacious person would certainly never have plunged, or, if he could have helped it, let anyone else plunge, into Charybdis. Sir Walter Scott Famous Scots Series Mythologically, they were two voracious monsters, dwelling opposite to each other,—Charybdis on the coast of Sicily, and Scylla on the coast of Italy. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 The biographer, as Mr Froude found out for a commentary on all this, is placed between a Scylla and Charybdis, between what is due to the subject, and what is expected by the public. James Boswell Famous Scots Series “Well, I went and saw the Reverend Robert Knowles sail between ‘Silly and Charybdis.’ 'Charge It' Keeping Up With Harry The ancients would have represented it as a sea-monster with open jaws, more terrible than Scylla and Charybdis. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 You sail triumphantly between Scylla and Charybdis without so much as skinning your eye.” Dr. Sevier Thus, in the exquisite "Comus," He shows these opposite terrors subdued by another power:— "Scylla wept And chid her barking waves into attention And fell Charybdis murmured soft applause." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 Against these Teucrians sea and sky have spent their strength for nought: Was Syrtes aught, or Scylla aught, or huge Charybdis aught? The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse And truly, we have never before undergone such trials in sailing between––but that Charybdis and Scylla allusion has been done to death. The Book of Khalid I was, however, too cautious to plunge a second time into Charybdis, but M'Corkindale did, and again emerged with plunder. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 The news is picked up by wireless on the flagship, the Charybdis, at the head of our line and signaled back from ship to ship. “Crumps”, The Plain Story of a Canadian Who Went Beneath, Charybdis holds her boisterous reign Midst roaring whirlpools, and absorbs the main; Thrice in her gulfs the boiling seas subside, Thrice in dire thunders she refunds the tide. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 Fell Charybdis what,— “Hostile to ships, now sucking in the tide, “Now fierce discharging? The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II He alone dared to brave the Fenris wolf; and the Southern proverb concerning Scylla and Charybdis has its counterpart in the Northern adage, “to get loose out of Læding and to dash out of Droma.” Myths of the Norsemen From the Eddas and Sagas Is it surprising, then, that she found it difficult to steer her course between the rocks of Scylla and the whirlpools of Charybdis? Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History The "Charybdis" was to lead the centre, and the "Diana" the left of the line, while the "Talbot" acted as a rear guard. "The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders Take warning: Seeking to escape from Charybdis, do not rush upon Scylla. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 Here Scylla on the right; Charybdis, restless, on the left alarms. The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II Four players now arrange themselves thus: two as mariners, one at either end of the table, and two as Scylla and Charybdis, one on each side of it. Little Folks (December 1884) A Magazine for the Young Immediately he had left her the "Charybdis" was ordered to sea; the bracing sea air of a more northern clime being about the most effective medicine for her crew. In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 The British warships in the basin were obsolete small cruisers of slow speed, the "Diana," the "Eclipse," the "Talbot" and the "Charybdis." "The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders Charybdis was a whirlpool, in which ships were often sucked to destruction; Scylla was a rock, on which ships were often dashed to pieces. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 Have you never yourself been betwixt Scylla and Charybdis? A Victor of Salamis Vessels which avoided the rock of Scylla were oft-times prone to fall into the dangerous whirlpool of Charybdis. Little Folks (December 1884) A Magazine for the Young We and the "Charybdis" then sailed—she for Yokohama and we for Castries bay—about sixty miles on the other side of the gulf—where we dropped anchor on the following morning. In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 To-day another steamer was chased by the "Charybdis" but she gave us the slip. "The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders From this position Chesterton deduces that it is the only rational religion, because it steers between the Scylla of pessimism and avoids the Charybdis of a facile optimism. Gilbert Keith Chesterton Accordingly, her divines abound with warnings against the aforesaid Scylla and Charybdis, and with exhortations to cleave to the middle line of safety. Notes and Queries, Number 212, November 19, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Suppose 50 words were sent across the straits, the record might read: The Mariners gained 27 words Scylla and Charybdis gained 23 words —-— The game won by the Mariners by 4 words. Little Folks (December 1884) A Magazine for the Young But to return to April 15th.—We had but cleared Hong Kong when we sighted the "Charybdis," with the long pennant flying. In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 Pelagius had fallen into Scylla, and Luther into Charybdis. Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church But the opposite rock is lower than this, though but a bow-shot distant; and upon it there is a great fig-tree, full of leaves; and under it the terrible Charybdis sucks down the black water. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing We, and the new faith with us, are between Scylla and Charybdis. Privy Seal His Last Venture She has escaped Scylla only to fall upon Charybdis. Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter Anxiety and Ennui are the Scylla and Charybdis on which the bark of human happiness is most commonly wrecked. The Map of Life Conduct and Character For this purpose he has the grand training told in his adventures; he must put down the monsters of Fableland, Polyphemus, Circe, Charybdis; he must endure the long servitude under Calypso; he must see Phæacia. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary We easily trace in Gay's career the unsatisfied overweening poetic soul, like a Charybdis, insatiable of adulation. Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered) The Sirens still sang their entrancing songs, while Scylla and Charybdis were ever stretching out eager arms toward unwary mariners. Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire Our route lies through a passage often celebrated by the ancients, "the famous Scylla and Charybdis." Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez, Vol. I A little experience in hydriatics, a few buckets of water, with a couple of linen sheets and blankets, will answer all the indications and remove the danger without sending the patient from Scylla into Charybdis. Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms The island is represented as pastoral, peaceful, idyllic, with its herds reposing in sunlight; certainly a decided contrast to the noise and struggle in the region of Scylla and Charybdis. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary Places supposed to be the site of constant whirlpools, such as Charybdis, the Maelstrom, and others. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. He sailed farther, past Scylla and Charybdis, and discovered no greater dangers than sharp rocks and whirlpools. Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire "Yes; and rather easy in avoiding Scylla to fall into Charybdis." The Opened Shutters All the money had gone to that Charybdis in the Rue Fortuny. The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 The two terrors, Scylla and Charybdis, lie in the straits of Messina, according to the accepted view, the former on the Italian side, the latter on the Sicilian. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary In the sea they are more dangerous, as the classical Charybdis, and the celebrated Maelstrom and Saltenstrom, both on the coast of Norway. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Dire Scylla there a scene of horror forms, And here Charybdis fills the deep with storms. In The Boyhood of Lincoln A Tale of the Tunker Schoolmaster and the Times of Black Hawk She had spent her winter in endeavoring to avoid Charybdis. The Opened Shutters He afterwards passed in safety through the frightful gulf of Scylla and Charybdis, and visited the wind-god Æolus, who gave him a fair wind home, and all the foul winds tied up in a bag. Historic Tales, vol 10 (of 15) The Romance of Reality Here is the point where Scylla and Charybdis appear, a new set of extremes, between which the mean is to be sought, then the passage can be made. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary It is evident that these Scylla and Charybdis of prosody have no longer any terrors for you, Lentz. The Varmint They were drifting apart, I thought; but in avoiding Scylla, had I not plunged into Charybdis? The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy All night long I was tossed on the waves, and at dawn I drew near to Charybdis. Odysseus, the Hero of Ithaca Adapted from the Third Book of the Primary Schools of Athens, Greece The accident of empire tantalized him with vain hopes of satisfying the Charybdis of his soul's sick cravings. New Italian sketches The sucking-in of the waters by Charybdis, and her disgorging of them has been connected with the ebb and flow of the tides. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary One's toilet must be a delicate compromise between ball attire and full visiting dress, but Mademoiselle Melanie has hit the juste milieu; and succeeded in carrying me through all the perils of Scylla and Charybdis. Fairy Fingers A Novel If it escape the Scylla of these pitiless plunderers, it is soon dashed upon a more merciless Charybdis, when the miscreant moths have ascertained its destitution. Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual Odysseus has to accomplish the awful passage between Scylla and Charybdis. Christianity As Mystical Fact And The Mysteries of Antiquity But for these barking and biting dogs, they are as well knowne as Scylla and Charybdis. Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 At any rate the grand stress is laid upon the second Alternative, Scylla and Charybdis, between which the ship is to pass. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary Some call it the navel of the sea, others Charybdis. The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II But this only drove Protestants from Scylla into Charybdis, and landed them in inextricable difficulties, because they withdrew the Gospels from the historical soil out of which they sprang. The Silesian Horseherd - Questions of the Hour If, chance, from fell Charybdis I escape, May I not also save from Scylla’s force My people; should the monster threaten them? The Odyssey of Homer It was evident that Hogarth's verdict on Johnson wanted revising, but he rushed from Scylla to Charybdis. Mushrooms on the Moor The whirling waters roared and seethed, all were intent upon the maelstrom, Charybdis, the other side; "we looked at her, fearing destruction," and destruction came just from the direction in which they were not looking. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary She seemed, like the Argonauts of yore, "'twixt Scylla and Charybdis". The New Girl at St. Chad's A Story of School Life But we do not escape Charybdis by steering again into Scylla, but by endeavouring to rise above Charybdis, ay, even above the Gospels. The Silesian Horseherd - Questions of the Hour Thus, many a groan Heaving, we navigated sad the streight, For here stood Scylla, while Charybdis there With hoarse throat deep absorb’d the briny flood. The Odyssey of Homer The passage between Scylla and Charybdis is often a wide one. The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother Not the Alternative, then, Scylla or Charybdis, but the combined Scylla and Charybdis is the word of mastery. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary “It’s an awesome thing, isn’t it, to be living in a world darkened on one side by the servant question and on the other by the appendix, like Scylla and Charybdis?” Jewel Weed The Scylla of Popularity lures him on the one hand, while the Charybdis of the Classical charms him on the other. The Book of Humorous Verse And now the West subsided, and the South Arose instead, with mis’ry charged for me, That I might measure back my course again To dire Charybdis. The Odyssey of Homer Soon after breakfast we were steaming through the beautiful straits, and passing the famous Scylla and Charybdis, the former a low dark cliff topped by an old castle, and with a little town nestling below. Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta Charybdis could not take him, on account of a saving germ in him still; she has to let him pass. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary But it is perhaps better for avoiding the Charybdis of literalness. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions They struck me as rather wonderful, but liable to induce dreams of Scylla and Charybdis, of the Fata Morgana, and other inconvenient accidents of the deep. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance All night long I drove, And when the sun arose, at Scylla’s rock 500 Once more, and at Charybdis’ gulph arrived. The Odyssey of Homer It looked so dreadful when it was first cut that Charles always spent these weeks between Scylla and Charybdis. A Little Girl in Old New York Under all difference of Nature lies the Thought's oneness, which is the true synthesis of every Scylla and Charybdis. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary The Skating Rink, like another Charybdis, had all but entangled him in its swirl as he pushed painfully off from the rocks of Throttle-Ha'penny. The Lost Girl The king, being seized with an insane desire to know something about the depths of the terrible gulf of Charybdis, offered Nicholas a golden cup if he would dive down and explore them. Under the Waves Diving in Deep Waters How, next he heard the Sirens in one strain 390 All chiming sweet, and how he reach’d the rocks Erratic, Scylla and Charybdis dire, Which none secure from injury may pass. The Odyssey of Homer There was one rush of nearly a hundred yards, then the fish calmed down and answered to the winch, moving down, nevertheless, much too persistently to Scylla and Charybdis. Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler Charybdis and Scylla had also their warning beacon, and Caprera too lifted its light to save ancient vessels from destruction. Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands But she did her best, steered as delicately as she could between her Scylla and Charybdis, and always gave her girls the benefit of a doubt. A Forgotten Hero Not for Him But the ship passed between Scylla and Charybdis and reached Antioch in safety. A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole The Ancients were fond of the metaphor, taken from the vexed Sicilian Seas, of Scylla and Charybdis. The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice On the right Scylla keeps guard, on the left unassuaged Charybdis, who thrice swallows the vast flood sheer down her swirling gulf, and ever again hurls it upward, lashing the sky with water. The Aeneid of Virgil Giving due attention to particulars in their places, we must yet give effects in sweeping strokes, steering as best we can between the Scylla of didactic details and the Charybdis of glittering generalities. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 They were quite rickety, and I was between the Scylla of cutting my throat with the razor and the Charybdis of breaking my bones by a fall on the floor. A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel The famous rock of Scylla and whirlpool of Charybdis, known to the ancients as two sea-monsters, near the Straits of Messina, next claimed his attention. A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole Had they escaped from Scylla to fall into Charybdis? The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume I Of a surety this is that Charybdis; of these cliffs, these awful rocks did Helenus prophesy. The Aeneid of Virgil But in avoiding Scylla they ran the risk of striking upon Charybdis; for the dangerous reefs of Eleuthera were fatal to many vessels. The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner War of the Rebellion; or, Scylla and Charybdis. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 For on the one side lay Scylla and on the other mighty Charybdis sucking down the salt sea water. A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole Whichever you choose—Scylla or Charybdis—" said Sir Charles in his most dulcet tones, "this is probably the last time you and I will ever speak together. Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia What hath availed me Syrtes or Scylla, what desolate Charybdis? they find shelter in their desired Tiber-bed, careless of ocean and of me. The Aeneid of Virgil It is no benefit to us if in steering away from the Scylla of monopoly, we be wrecked on the Charybdis of wasteful competition. Monopolies and the People It seemed sailing 'twixt Scylla and Charybdis, but it was worth trying. The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story Adam and Eve are there, so are the Pillars of Hercules, Scylla and Charybdis, the Red Sea coloured red, the Nile and the Mountains of the Moon, strange beasts and stranger men. A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole The Charybdis was rated as a six-gun brig, but she carried only one long gun amidships and two carronades, and her full complement of officers and men was but fifty-five. Our Sailors Gallant Deeds of the British Navy during Victoria's Reign Yet Helenus' commands counsel that our course keep not the way between Scylla and Charybdis, the very edge of death on either hand. The Aeneid of Virgil No flowing waves with drownèd ships forth-poured By cloyed Charybdis, and again devoured. The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) If the reader has been drawn into the whirlpools of the political Charybdis, he might not even in far worthier hands than mine have escaped the rocky headlands of the ecclesiastic Scylla. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 To give no heed to them on the one hand, or to follow them blindly, in spite of every other consideration, on the other; these seem to me the Scylla and Charybdis of our lives. Seen and Unseen As soon as the British officer had returned on board the Charybdis, and reported these circumstances, Lieutenant de Courcy determined to compel attention to his communications. Our Sailors Gallant Deeds of the British Navy during Victoria's Reign Alas! it was avoiding Scylla only to fall into Charybdis. Boycotted And Other Stories We avoid Scylla, my Captain, only to fall into Charybdis. Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess He dived in the pool of Charybdis and returned. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 He felt quite sick, and took a solitary ride: but he flew from Scylla to Charybdis. The Young Duke Scylla and Charybdis are both successfully avoided even by provincial rhetoric. Tancred Or, The New Crusade O where is the knight or the squire so bold As to dive to the howling Charybdis below?— The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Charybdis is a very ravenous woman, who stole Hercules's oxen, for which crime Jupiter struck her dead with a thunder-bolt, and then turned her into a gulf or whirlpool in the Sicilian Sea. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales Gives an account of the syrens; of Scylla and Charybdis; and of his being cast on the island of Calypso. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 It was no time for brilliant initiative or adventurous politics; the need was to avoid Scylla and Charybdis, and a via media had to be found in church and state, at home and abroad. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" He was on dangerous seas, but he made his way doggedly on, between the Charybdis of reticence and the Scylla of plain-spoken suggestion. Phantom Wires A Novel It appears, therefore, that we must steer between Scylla and Charybdis, or that we are in a first-class educational dilemma. The Elements of General Method Based on the Principles of Herbart Scylla and Charybdis are two other sea monsters. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales We reached the Bay of Naples in the morning twilight, after making an unsuccessful attempt to locate Scylla and Charybdis. The Reminiscences of an Astronomer Before leaving Naples, he had made up his mind to attempt the dreaded straits of that name, and dare the dangers of the noted whirlpools of Scylla and Charybdis. The Story of Paul Boyton Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World Very easy it would be for me to give you cheap scholarship from the Æneid, about Palinurus and Scylla and Charybdis. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. Even among the wavelets of the Faro we remember Homer, scanning the shore if haply somewhere yet may linger the wild fig-tree which saved Ulysses from the whirlpool of Charybdis. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series Seething sand, or Scylla the snare, or lonely Charybdis? The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Between the Scylla of over-elation and the Charybdis of despair you have a long time steered the bark of the School House. The Loom of Youth If we get over this difficulty, by attributing to this medium a degree of tenuity almost spiritual, we shall run upon Scylla while endeavoring to shun Charybdis. Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence Neither Scylla nor Charybdis bothered me,—as we passed wing-wing between them before a smart north wind. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. Simonides had dared to say: 'One horrible Charybdis waits for all.' Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series I was talking the other day to Alfred Coppard, who has steered more successfully than most English story writers away from the Scylla and Charybdis of the modern artist. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story For Scylla and Charybdis, see note on Book III stanza lv. The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor There is little choice between Scylla and Charybdis. The Spinster Book Without going to the American extreme of fifty or a hundred dishes to choose from, some intermediate point short of the Scylla of sole and the Charybdis of ham and eggs might surely be found. The Land of Contrasts A Briton's View of His American Kin His navigating skill must guide him through the perils of Scylla and Charybdis and the stout heart of manhood must bear him past Mount Ætna’s fiery menace. The Vitalized School And so, like a helmsman too quick with his tiller, Eschewing Charybdis they steer upon Scylla, To perish of utter intemperance—Yes! My Life as an Author Scylla dwelt in a cave on the Italian side, Charybdis on the Sicilian. The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor The channel remains to-day just as it ever did, with Scylla and Charybdis presiding over their rocks as of old. Andrew Marvell In deciding which of these courses to pursue, the translator stands between Scylla and Charybdis. Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 It was running through his mind already that if he should be freed of the murder charge, he would only have escaped Scylla to go to wreck on Charybdis. The Big-Town Round-Up Song of the Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis and the Oxen of the Sun. Lists of Stories and Programs for Story Hours Have sea and sky been wielded to destroy, Nor Syrtes yet, nor Scylla's fierce embrace, Nor vast Charybdis whelmed the sons of Troy, Who, safe in Tiber, flout me to the face? The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor Off the coast of Sicily is a mighty whirlpool, which men call Charybdis, where Aeneas of old narrowly escaped shipwreck. The House of Walderne A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in the Days of the Barons' Wars Keep nearer to Scylla's than to Charybdis's rock. The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tales of Troy On the other hand, Dr. Wallis, Professor of Geometry, and the famous Dr. South, published treatises against Dr. Sherlock, which, while avoiding the Scylla of Tritheism, ran dangerously near to the Charybdis of Sabellianism. The English Church in the Eighteenth Century Thus when I shun Scylla, your father, I fall into Charybdis, your mother. Familiar Quotations Where Scylla here, and there Charybdis lies, And death lurks double. The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor And such a refuge as is Scylla when one is threatened of Charybdis. The Onlooker, Volume 1, Part 2 Out of the peak a fig tree grows, and below that fig tree Charybdis has her den. The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tales of Troy For it is rightly compared to Scylla and Charybdis; I mean that by its grave and unmitigated dangerousness, evil is there the lot of sailors. The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints The man who was ingenious enough to act a double part, who could steer clear of Charybdis and Scylla, alone evaded trouble. In the Shadow of Death Perhaps it is expressive of great length, and I am the more inclined to that sense of it, because it is the epithet given to the mast on which Ulysses floated to Charybdis. The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper We had escaped the engulfing suck of Charybdis, only to be darted upon by those six grim mouths of her sister monster, Scylla, over the way. The Onlooker, Volume 1, Part 2 If thou shouldst win past the deadly rocks guarded by Scylla and Charybdis thou wilt come to the Island of Thrinacia. The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tales of Troy Sailing thus under the colors of scriptural doctrine, we steer clear of the Scylla of Calvinism on the one hand, and also escape the Charybdis of Arminianism on the other. The Way of Salvation in the Lutheran Church He took for minister of finance, W. S. Fielding, who justified his choice by successfully steering the budget bark between Scylla and Charybdis for fourteen years in succession before the whirlpool finally sucked him down. Laurier: A Study in Canadian Politics But do not fancy that in avoiding Scylla I must run upon Charybdis. The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times In the cliff opposite lived another terrible creature called Charybdis who stirred the sea to a fierce whirlpool. Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) Fear gripped the men when they saw Charybdis gulping down the sea. The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tales of Troy Yet, undeterred by dangers that eclipse Scylla and Charybdis, the laborious Chinese have for centuries past carried on an immense traffic through this perilous passage. The Awakening of China The accident of empire tantalised him with vain hopes of satisfying the Charybdis of his soul's sick cravings. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series Now came in sight the immense bulk of Etna, lifting its fire-crowned head into the clouds; and the roaring of the terrible Charybdis could be distinctly heard. The Children's Hour, Volume 3 (of 10) On your left, you will hear in the Strait the thundering roar of Charybdis, and on the right grim Scylla sits scowling in her cave ready to spring on the unwary traveler. Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) On one side was Scylla and on the other Charybdis. The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tales of Troy He was hardly more than a boy—a wild, half-crazed fanatic, whose reason, if he had ever possessed any, had been lost in the Charybdis of his zeal. Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall We must be on guard, saying, like the little daughter of a classical professor, “If Scylla doesn’t get me Charybdis will.” Everyday Foods in War Time So up the strait we sailed in sadness; for here lay Scylla, and there divine Charybdis fearfully sucked the salt sea-water down. The Children's Hour, Volume 3 (of 10) But Æneas had a far more dangerous enemy than Scylla and Charybdis, for Juno's wrath was not yet appeased. Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) There I stayed until the timbers of my ship were cast up again by Charybdis. The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tales of Troy Ah, unhappy! in what a Charybdis art thou struggling, O youth, worthy of a better flame! The Works of Horace Not daring describe to his companions the threatened horrors of Charybdis and Scylla, Ulysses bade his steersman avoid the whirlpool, and, fully armed, prepared to brave the monster Scylla. The Book of the Epic An ill wind comes, and the vessel is swept to disaster; on the shoals or rocks, rushing to destruction against some Scylla or swallowed up by some Charybdis. The Jericho Road Far up the channel they heard the roar of Charybdis and hastened their speed in fear. Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) It rushed towards the terrible rocks of Scylla and Charybdis. The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tales of Troy But if thou takest the other way thou wilt come to another strait, guarded day and night by two sleepless sentinels, Scylla and Charybdis. Stories from the Odyssey Clinging to the mast of his wrecked ship, he drifted between Charybdis and Scylla, escaping from the whirlpool only by clinging to the branches at an overhanging fig-tree. The Book of the Epic The mur�na, or lamprey, on the contrary, was sought in the very whirlpools of Charybdis. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 She must sail through a tortuous channel with Scylla on the one side and Charybdis on the other, and to avoid either danger too anxiously may mean risking shipwreck on the other side. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society A Charybdis, do I say? no—if there ever was such a thing, it was but a single animal. Roman life in the days of Cicero They had not long lost sight of the Sirens' Rocks when they heard the booming of breakers, which warned them that the fearful strait between Scylla and Charybdis was close at hand. Stories from the Odyssey He also cautioned Aeneas about the hidden dangers of Charybdis and Scylla, and bade him visit the Cumaean Sibyl, so as to induce her, if possible, to lend him her aid. The Book of the Epic There was once a real or imaginary old lady who had got the metaphor of Scylla and Charybdis a little confused. Women and the Alphabet A Series of Essays "Prince, of that company which is hypocritical and deceitful as sin, dazzling and alluring as a poisonous flower, dangerous and deadly as Scylla and Charybdis, of the company of the Media Nocte." The Youth of the Great Elector Two female artistes who revelled in their precocious emancipation; two divinities worshipped in the temple of the grand sculptors of modern Athens; the Scylla and Charybdis of Paris. The Cross of Berny Just as they passed, a huge column of water shot into the air, belched up from the vast maw of Charybdis, and the galley was half swamped under a fountain of falling water. Stories from the Odyssey After passing Charybdis and Scylla unharmed, and after gazing in awe at the plume of smoke crowning Mt. The Book of the Epic There were only two points at which he could extend his line, and if at one he found a "Scylla," he was equally sure to find a "Charybdis" at the other. History of Kershaw's Brigade Thence he went to visit Colonel and Mrs. Yule at Palermo, deeply interested in Scylla and Charybdis, Etna and the metopes of Selinus. The Life of John Ruskin My Charybdis conducted me to the barracks where a lot of undisciplined philosophers were discussing the parceling out of land…. Rescuing the Czar Two authentic Diaries arranged and translated When that ended, a black yawning chasm appeared, the very throat, as it seemed, of Charybdis, into which the water rushed in a roaring torrent. Stories from the Odyssey She neither falls into the Scylla of affectation nor the Charybdis of off-handness. Penny Plain He walked silently to the dreaded thirteenth tee, which, with the returning fourteenth, forms the malignant Scylla and Charybdis of the course. Murder in Any Degree There is a Charybdis in poverty, and a Scylla in riches. The Man Who Laughs But if he escape Scylla in this particular, he is certain to drive upon Charybdis in another. Thirty Years in the Itinerancy There stands a great fig-tree, thick with leaves, and under it sits Charybdis, sucking down the water, and belching it up again three times a day. Stories from the Odyssey Messina, Strait of, 24 m. long, and at its narrowest 2½ broad; separates Sicily from the Italian mainland; here were the Scylla and Charybdis of the ancients. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge The most ancient memory here is of them, for this is the shore of Charybdis. Heart of Man Shunning Scylla, I shall perforce fall into Charybdis. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 55, May, 1862 Charybdis is another divine Homeric female who lures men to ruin. Primitive Love and Love-Stories Odysseus alone escaped with his life from that tremendous stroke, and clinging to a spar floated all day, until he came in sight of the strait between Scylla and Charybdis. Stories from the Odyssey Schiller modestly owns his obligations to Homer's descriptions of Charybdis, Odyss. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes It was from Scylla to Charybdis, for I was led to one of the sitting-out places. The Reflections of Ambrosine A Novel Reaction and excess are the Scylla and Charybdis of its perils. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 I was then led by my evil destiny to Charybdis, who never neglected an opportunity of seizing a new prey when it came within her reach. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II He neither dreads the contact of the baker—the Scylla of the metropolitan peripatetic, nor yet shuns the dire collision of the chimney-sweep—his Charybdis. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 280, October 27, 1827 Charybdis, if she existed at all, was only one animal. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 So that, as Plato says of himself, the third time he set sail for the Strait of Scylla, "Venturing again Charybdis's dangerous gulf." Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans Then black Charybdis, from her boundless depth, Threw up a gory sea. Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars I now began to find the smile of Charybdis too costly for a private purse, and added one more to six and forty lovers, whose fortune and patience her rapacity had exhausted. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II In avoiding Scylla we must not forget Charybdis. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 The compiler of an Anthology made the following remarks in his preface: ``In making a selection of this kind one sails between Scylla and Charybdis—the hackneyed and the strange. Literary Blunders Ulysses with his men Have seen Charybdis and the Cyclops' den. The Aeneid English They imagined that the huge, misshapen, and dreadful monsters Scylla and Charybdis lurked in the Straits of Messina waiting to seize and swallow the unlucky passer-by. Introductory American History Satan makes his way through fighting elements, like Argo between the Cyanean rocks, or Ulysses between the two Sicilian whirlpools, when he shunned Charybdis on the "larboard." Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 What a fatality, that you have no better an option—either a Scylla or a Charybdis. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 A leader-writer in a morning paper a few months ago made the same blunder when he wrote: ``As a matter of fact, Mr. Gladstone was bound to bump against either Scylla or Charybdis.'' Literary Blunders Nay, you may have heard Scylla, and seen Charybdis; you may have entered the closet where Archimedes was found at the taking of Syracuse. Joseph Andrews, Volume 2 Schiller himself had never seen the sea, nor any body of water remotely resembling the Charybdis of the poem. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Sometimes a huge shark would bite the fish in two, so that the poor finny creature was between Scylla and Charybdis. Life in Mexico On one hand they saw the whirlpool where, beneath a hollow fig-tree, Charybdis sucks down the sea horribly. Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew To avoid one party lest he should run on Scylla, he excited and provoked the jealousy and neglect of the other, who might have wrecked him on Charybdis. The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838 Delmé felt glad of this change; for Scylla and Charybdis to an Englishman, are as familiar as Whittington and his cat. A Love Story We fondly expected to pass the Messina Straits by daylight, and to cast another glance upon old Etna, Scylla and Charybdis, the Liparis and Stromboli. To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Indeed his position was both awkward and dangerous: on the one hand was Scylla in the shape of the English Government, and on the other the stormy and uncertain Charybdis of his clamouring regiments. Cetywayo and his White Neighbours Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal Particularly has the soup-spoon its Scylla and Charybdis, and if a careless eater make a hissing sound as he eats his soup, the well-bred diner-out looks round with dismay. Manners and Social Usages We are falling out of Scylla into Charybdis. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 You would have thought, by the confusion it caused in the river and the whirlpools it made, that Scylla and Charybdis, and their whole progeny, had left the Mediterranean and come and settled here. Wanderings in South America They then entered the dangerous strait, on one side of which was Scylla, a dreadful monster who lived in a cave near by, on the other was the deadly whirlpool of Charybdis. Authors of Greece We therefore escaped without adding our bones to those on the isle of the Sirens, and came next to Scylla and Charybdis. National Epics Your lot has gone sadly amiss, When you fell into such a Charybdis as this! Horace Better no chart whatever than one which shows no actually existing perils, but warns us against Scylla, Charybdis, and the Cyclops. Pages from a Journal with Other Papers He sailed between Scylla and Charybdis safely, though he lost some of his men in the terrible passage. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4 He fears not Scylla, and sails close by Charybdis, and having beaten out a storm, rides at rest in a harbour. Character Writings of the 17th Century Instructed by Helenus, we avoided Scylla and Charybdis, and reached Sicily, where my father died. National Epics But we, like you, follow the cadence, finding ourselves between Scylla and Charybdis: either you reject us or the government rejects us. The Reign of Greed In his legislation we see an intense hostility to the Roman Catholic Church,--one of the animating principles of the Reformers; and hence the Reformers, in their hostility to Rome, went from Sylla into Charybdis. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 06 Renaissance and Reformation Thus, it was a veritable Scylla and Charybdis. Travels in Morocco, Volume 1. The song of the Sirens.—Scylla and Charybdis.—The oxen of the Sun.—The judgment.—The crew killed by lightning. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 3 Books for Children As Washington said: "The whole world was in an uproar," and he added that the task "was to steer safely between Scylla and Charybdis." The Constitution of the United States A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution One is naturally diffident at first; for if one musters courage to commence a conversation with propriety, the problem is how to escape a Scylla in the second and a Charybdis in the third sentence. Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 Fortified thus, he explored Charybdis and all the Liparic whirlpools, and could have found Cadman's gun anywhere, if it had only been there. Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale Besides these there were Scylla and Charybdis, sea-monsters that made perilous the passage of the Sicilian Straits, the Centaurs, the Cyclops, Cerberus, the watch-dog of Hades, and a thousand others. General History for Colleges and High Schools Now to most men this would only have been a choice of evils, a progress from Scylla to Charybdis: not so to our Colonel. Umbrellas and Their History So we sailed up the strait; and there was sore trouble in my heart, for on the one side was Scylla, and on the other Charybdis, sucking down the water in a terrible fashion. The Story of the Odyssey The idle apprentice is certainly Scylla, but is not the virtuous apprentice just as much Charybdis? The Note-Books of Samuel Butler Having escaped the Scylla of the dancing women, Charybdis waited for him in the shape of eyes that were pools of hot mystery. King of the Khyber Rifles This was a point of danger, for the loud roaring of the sea warned them that they were not far from the terrible Charybdis. Story of Aeneas But Scylla and Charybdis--a word to the wise--he only saved his estate at expense of a lawsuit, which again subdivided the family property. Guy Mannering — Complete All night long was I driven; and with the morning I came again to Scylla and to Charybdis. The Story of the Odyssey But the rejoinder must be, No, you will be quite as ill off there; you will be in equal peril on the other side: there is Charybdis. The Recreations of a Country Parson It is so hard not to tumble into Scylla when you are avoiding Charybdis. The Way We Live Now He had been quite aware in his more gallant days, before he had been knocked about on that Charybdis rock, that he might sip, and taste, and choose between the sweets. He Knew He Was Right The danger he had just escaped as Scylla met him as Charybdis. Jack Tier There is always a second honeymoon for those who have just passed the first matrimonial Scylla and Charybdis; there is always a new courtship, deeper and more understanding. Half a Rogue Another matter in regard to which Scylla and Charybdis are very discernible, is the fashion in which human beings think and speak of the good or bad qualities of their friends. The Recreations of a Country Parson He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity—a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation. South Wind The Charybdis in the Close drove him helpless into the whirlpool of the Heavitree Scylla. He Knew He Was Right In the charting of his course he had often found two other rocks beside Scylla and Charybdis in his way; one was boredom and the other was love. Tides of Barnegat In fact, in this modern England of ours, this fatherland of snobdom, one passes one's life in a see-saw of doubt, between the Scylla and Charybdis of those two antithetical social dangers. The British Barbarians But I do not think that there is any subject whatever in regard to which it is so capricious and arbitrary whether you shall run it into Scylla or into Charybdis. The Recreations of a Country Parson He was in the Charybdis of passion, and must perforce circle and circle ever nearer round the fatal centre. North and South I know the trouble that Ulysses had with Scylla and Charybdis. Letters of Franklin K. Lane The Stygian flood, and Scylla and Charybdis, are found among the legends of the Caribs. Atlantis : the antediluvian world Here was a Scylla and Charybdis business: as if a President wasn't trying enough, without the Governor of Massachusetts and the hub of the hub piled on top of that. Hospital Sketches Midway between two vulgar errors: steering a sure track between Scylla and Charybdis: the grovelling multitude to the left, the romantic few to the right; stand the words of inspired wisdom. The Recreations of a Country Parson It will task all my genius to steer between the Scylla of a bigoted, peace-loving empress, and the Charybdis of this reckless emperor; to reconcile their antagonisms, and overrule their prejudices. Joseph II. and His Court Jane felt herself between Scylla and Charybdis, and she took a very prompt and characteristic plunge. The Rosary Under the circumstances, exhausted nature gave in; though saved from Scylla, our destiny was Charybdis, and we accordingly surrendered ourselves to a wash, breakfast, and the Brahminee Bull. Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet Indeed, it was all I could do to steer a dignified course between that uncompromising Scylla, Blakely's mother, and the compromising Charybdis of my self-elected champions. Cupid's Understudy Scylla no longer bellows in your hearing; but Charybdis whirls you round. The Recreations of a Country Parson So now, my dear lord, you have the tyrant at your mercy, tossed between Scylla and Charybdis. Love-at-Arms "I am between Scylla and Charybdis," he wrote. The Gadfly There Ulysses, the reader will remember, had lost six of his men, seized by Scylla, while the navigators were wholly intent upon avoiding Charybdis. Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable Now through the rocks, appall'd with deep dismay, We bend our course, and stem the desperate way; Dire Scylla there a scene of horror forms, And here Charybdis fills the deep with storms. The Odyssey But in escaping from Scylla I had run into the jaws of Charybdis. Maiwa's Revenge The task of the politician was to steer his dangerous course between this Scylla and Charybdis. Life of Stephen A. Douglas But Scylla and Charybdis —a word to the wise—he only saved his estate at expense of a lawsuit, which again subdivided the family property. Guy Mannering AEneas had been cautioned by Helenus to avoid the strait guarded by the monsters Scylla and Charybdis. Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable Now sunk the west, and now a southern breeze, More dreadful than the tempest lash'd the seas; For on the rocks it bore where Scylla raves, And dire Charybdis rolls her thundering waves. The Odyssey I was, however, too cautious to plunge a second time in to Charybdis, but M'Corkindale did, and again emerged with plunder. Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners) The other Scylla, from whom the rock opposite Charybdis was named, was a beautiful maiden, beloved by the sea-god Glaucus, but changed into a monster through the jealousy and enchantments of Circe. The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems You have all heard of the difficulty the voyager had in steering between Scylla and Charybdis in the Latin adage. Bunyan Characters (3rd Series) It made me quite faint to feel that we might escape the Scylla of our present peril and yet split on the Charybdis of circumstantial evidence. A Thief in the Night: a Book of Raffles' Adventures What time the judge forsakes the noisy bar To take repast, and stills the wordy war, Charybdis, rumbling from her inmost caves, The mast refunded on her refluent waves. The Odyssey Had the Gobbos not known about Scylla and Charybdis, Shakespeare would not have lent them the knowledge. The Valet's tragedy, and other studies As doth the wave, yonder upon Charybdis, which is broken on that which it encounters, so it behoves that here the people counterdance. Divine Comedy, Norton's Translation, Hell What fifty men dared not have done, one woman did! a painted, patched, fucused, periwigged, bolstered, Charybdis, cannibal, Megaera, Lamia! Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth All the night was I borne, but with the rising of the sun I came to the rock of Scylla, and to dread Charybdis. The Odyssey Done into English prose The Planctae, or Wanderers, merge into Scylla and Charybdis, and the alternative between them and something untold merges into the alternative whether Ulysses had better choose Scylla or Charybdis. The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original In his legislation we see an intense hostility to the Roman Catholic Church,—one of the animating principles of the Reformers; and hence the Reformers, in their hostility to Rome, went from Sylla into Charybdis. Beacon Lights of History In the matter, for example, of making no distinction of persons some of the early justices, in seeking to avoid Scylla, came dangerously near to Charybdis. Russia Such sight meets Lafayette, in the dusk of the evening, as he returns, successful with difficulty at Vincennes: Sansculotte Scylla hardly weathered, here is Aristocrat Charybdis gurgling under his lee! The French Revolution Odysseus, his passage by the Sirens, and by Scylla and Charybdis. The Odyssey Done into English prose She could not, however, break his long drift from Charybdis to the island of Pantellaria; she therefore resolved to make it up to Syracuse in another way. The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original As doth the billow there upon Charybdis, That breaks itself on that which it encounters, So here the folk must dance their roundelay. Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Complete My request was granted, and I was furnished with the necessary documents; but I soon found that in seeking to avoid Scylla I had fallen into Charybdis. Russia Then how he heard the song of the full-voiced Sirens, and came to the Rocks Wandering, and to terrible Charybdis, and to Scylla, that never yet have men avoided scatheless. The Odyssey Done into English prose For on the one hand lay Scylla, and on the other mighty Charybdis in terrible wise sucked down the salt sea water. The Odyssey Done into English prose Then we entered the Straits in great fear of mind, for on the one hand was Scylla, and on the other dread Charybdis kept sucking up the salt water. The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original Charybdis is transposed to a site some few miles to the north of its actual position. The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original At last, when I had nearly forgotten all about Scylla and Charybdis, I one night unexpectedly ran upon the former, and, to my astonishment, found myself formally arrested! Russia |
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