| 单词 | sibylline |
| 例句 | Even when representing the self, many of these artists tend to the sibylline. Perspective | Forty years of sex and gender in the wilds of New York 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z Also because I was influenced by a late-blooming acquaintance with Wagner operas, discovering that their aesthetic, which I had assumed to be bombastic, really relies on sibylline continuities. The Pyro-American in Me 2016-07-03T04:00:00Z I was underwhelmed by Colin Matthews’s “A Voice to Wake,” with its vocal line that felt somehow both sibylline and mechanical. In Focus Festival, Juilliard Salutes Public Broadcasters 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z Mr. Jeremiah also brought impressive power and intensity to Moto Osada’s sibylline “Four Nights of Dream,” the only opera with a male protagonist. Music Review: Vox Contemporary American Opera Lab at Skirball Center 2012-11-11T23:04:39Z Schwartz adores “cerulean and azure swaths” of “open sea,” the adjective “sibylline,” fabrics like “almond-coloured velvet” and “rough linen,” sunlight dappled by leaves. A novelist makes a beautiful hash out of feminist histories. But something's missing 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z It is as old as the sibylline books. Should we even go there? Historians on comparing fascism to Trumpism 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z It is also remarkable, after a storm, to see with what anxious and fidgety hands some of the insurance speculators turn over the pages of this sibylline book.” The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 2012-04-03T02:00:36.237Z The door opened, and Fr�ulein's head appeared, solemn and sibylline, with tears shining behind her spectacles. The Devourers 2012-03-16T02:00:23.493Z On such occasions he favors us with such doctrine as the following, which we confess we had the weakness to read with "sibylline execration" and extreme disgust. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z These are placed on the squares called by the bag-holder, who draws numbers haphazard from his sibylline sack. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z The sibylline was an excellent career for a queer and unexplained old woman. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z He gives us the information, sibylline though it be, that the moral law emanates from the Will of God, and is shown to us in the revelations of religion. Morals and the Evolution of Man 2011-11-14T03:00:18.930Z No Roman soothsayer ever had such a catalogue of omens as I found in the sibylline leaves of my childhood. Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2011-11-01T02:00:25.563Z Oliver's proceedings here have been the theme of much loud criticism, sibylline execration, into which it is not our plan to enter at present. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z But Val and her father bore with her, not even exchanging covert glances when, with shining eyes and sibylline aspect, she would burst into Old Testament denunciation and prophecy. The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z The preface, beautiful but sibylline, is an appeal to all men to worship and exalt Imagination, which in ancient times in the Christ-form, says Blake, “walked upon England’s mountains green.” William Blake A Study of His Life and Art Work 2011-09-13T02:00:35.943Z It is the old story of the sibylline books. The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z Eying Mercy from the door of her den, the old hag thought her appearance indicated one quite able to afford a fee, and proportionate to the idea was the sibylline wrath. Trevethlan: (Vol 2 of 3) A Cornish Story. 2011-05-16T02:00:19.270Z The sibylline volume of man's history is open before us, and every page of it is written in blood or tears. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z I was vividly interested in that phrase, "For cast see under the clock," which I read in the sibylline leaves of my London papers. Far Off Things 2011-02-04T03:00:19.967Z Of all the female poets of the new world, Maria Brooks seems to possess most the sibylline inspirations of the celebrated women of contemporaneous Europe. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 The source of these and similar sibylline manifestations is a subtle one. Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) We love their balsamic breath, the long, slender needles of their leaves, and, above all, the constant sibylline whisperings that never cease among their branches. The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings See him rushing out, sibylline in face; his hair streaming, in each hand a pistol! Orphans of the Storm The words of this ill-starred maiden—attainted with that sibylline cunning peculiar to her race—had filled my heart with most dire forebodings. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness There was a sibylline gloom about her withered face, as though she had lived a lifetime in the face of a horror to come. Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2 In vain had the sibylline books been once more consulted, and in vain had public prayer been offered, in accordance with their directions to Vulcan and the goddesses of Earth and Hades. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 The truth is that, as the sequel proved, Miss Ambient had some of the qualities of the sibyl, and had therefore, perhaps, a right to the sibylline contortions. The Author Of Beltraffio If it were not possible, when Elliott made an examination, to arrive at the precise facts, it is certainly now a secret as secure from discovery as the lost sibylline leaves. Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII Like sibylline prophecy the voice of the unseen preacher struck down on us. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story The quindecemviri had the charge of the sibylline books; inspected them by the appointment of the senate in dangerous junctures, and performed the sacrifices which they enjoined. Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed) Some wild Prophecies we have, as the Völuspa in the Elder Edda; of a rapt, earnest, sibylline sort. Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Now the gods were dethroned, oracles and prodigies ceased, sibylline books were burned, temples were destroyed, or transformed into churches, or still stand as memorials of the victory of Christianity. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Perhaps it was the recollection of Mother Moll's sibylline utterance; perhaps merely that her husband's hostile attitude aroused a corresponding feeling of animosity. The Secret of the Storm Country But at the end of it the weakest of them was the partly sibylline, partly mountebank intruder. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story This is only a record of my heart's life, written at random and carelessly thrown aside, sheet after sheet, sibylline leaves from the great book of fate. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author Time and accident are gradually attaching, to the fine instruments in question, a kind of sibylline intensity of value; and the inquiry, if omitted now, may become impossible hereafter. Notes and Queries, Number 189, June 11, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Once more, he raised his eyes to the crimson wall and the dark frame out of which Elena's pallid face looked forth, that face with the haunting eyes and the sibylline mouth. The Child of Pleasure The sibylline oracles were held in so great veneration among the ancients, that nothing of importance was undertaken without consulting them. 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 And I had the poetess's sibylline profile in full view. The Way of Ambition But from them must come the sibylline response, for the true artist has no home upon earth save the heart of humanity! The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy The one is sagacious, argus-eyed; the other oracular, sibylline. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy As he uttered these words, Peregrine drew himself up to his full height, and his flashing eyes and animated gestures gave to what he said something of the weight of a sibylline prophecy. Tales of the Ridings There was something mysterious about the origin of the sibylline books. 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 If he could have met Debora again, he would have forgiven her sibylline deceptions, her father's chicanery. Visionaries Early in the Christian era, when men were spreading the new faith, they made much of these sibylline prophecies to add weight to their teachings. Michelangelo A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures And A Portrait Of The Master, With Introduction And Interpretation On the table where I write there lie two paper-weights, preserving from the fate of the sibylline leaves the sheets of foolscap to which this essay is now being committed. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science They knew well that sibylline look on the face of Miranda Brown. The Summons It is reported that a woman called Amalthæa, from a foreign country, came to Tarquin the Proud to sell nine sibylline books. 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 "I just knew," she said, with something of a sibylline air. The Judge These sibylline leaves, as they were called, contained passages supposed to be prophetic of the coming of Christ, and this is why the Cumæan sibyl is placed by Michelangelo among the prophets. Michelangelo A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures And A Portrait Of The Master, With Introduction And Interpretation So there, forbear to spell my fate; I've saved you that sibylline trouble; You could but this true estimate Redouble. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 29, 1892 As she spoke, she looked mystic, sibylline, and I could almost fancy that before her dreamy eyes arose a vision of my future as if floating in a magic crystal. The Princess Passes "He will cry!" said Meta on the evening before, and nodded sibylline fashion, as though she knew everything. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig It may well be believed that these sibylline leaves of Mohammedanism make up a heterogeneous jumble of varied elements. Sacred Books of the East At length the temple was destroyed by fire, and the original sibylline books perished. Michelangelo A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures And A Portrait Of The Master, With Introduction And Interpretation "Did YOU?" she asked; but Mrs. Rolliver, at this, grew suddenly veiled and sibylline. The Custom of the Country All right, when you get on these sibylline airs, I say no more. Cæsar or Nothing Well, I am going to question these little sibylline leaves, and make the Marguerite tell me whether I am destined to a prison all the days of my life. Monsieur Maurice You need not any way doubt but that feminine old age is always fructifying in qualities sublime—I would have said sibylline. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 The sibylline leaves or books contained their teachings, and were preserved with the utmost care in Rome. Poets of the South The mere grip of his memory was not simply extraordinary, it had in it a token, a hint, of the strange, the pythic—nay, the sibylline. Prince Zaleski "A bully bit of colour," would be his craftsmanlike way of describing a twilight full of sibylline suggestiveness to the literary mind. October Vagabonds He has cultivated that sibylline look until people think he's a wonder. The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet A Detective Story The accounts are all written on the sibylline leaves; they are in all languages, ancient and modern; and those concerning this story are in English. Mrs. Shelley She smiled a certain curious sibylline smile of hers. Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose A few days later she again met her old gipsy crone Hagar Burton, who repeated her sibylline declaration. The Life of Sir Richard Burton But, strangely enough, when he brought you his sketch, all your "sibylline suggestiveness" was there, which of course means, after all, that painting was his way of seeing and saying it. October Vagabonds For some time the empress walked up and down her room, undecided whether to turn the sibylline leaves or not. Joseph II. and His Court The truth is that, as the sequel was to prove, Miss Ambient had some of the qualities of the sibyl and had therefore perhaps a right to the sibylline contortions. The Author of Beltraffio In these sibylline leaves are gathered the scattered prophecies of the past upon the cases in which the axe will fall. The Path of the Law Perhaps, too, in the intervals of the wild breezy music which accompanied the exhibition, he might hear the low voice of the Veiled Lady, conveying her sibylline responses. The Blithedale Romance The denizens of the rue de Paris watched him pass with an interest mingled with awe; to all their questions he returned sibylline answers big with mysterious treasures. The Alkahest She is an abominable old hag, and the very rustling of her sibylline leaves as she turns them over in the cabinet of the empress makes me shudder with disgust. Joseph II. and His Court Some wild Prophecies we have, as the Voluspa in the Elder Edda; of a rapt, earnest, sibylline sort. On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History |
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