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How to use sibylline in a sentence

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Neruda is master of a living world in turmoil, and his expression is at times scarcely more than a sibylline stammer, a primitive muttering.
Sealed by the limbs of a sibylline writing, Olivier Toma's solar and fire canvases are a show in themselves.
They gave her a sibylline, vaguely Eastern air, and although they hid more of the body than a corseted gown with conventional crinolines, they were considered bohemian.
Sonnabend, who used to be married to Leo Castelli, and who still presides, in her nineties, over the New York gallery that bears her name, is characteristically sibylline about her plans for this work.
In her last 15 years Dickinson averaged 35 poems a year and conducted her social life mainly through her chiselled and often sibylline written messages.
To transmit her sibylline female heritage, this daughterless, nieceless woman must find female heirs to whom she is related by affinity, not genealogy.
There is a possibility of an Etruscan origin if Apollo was connected to the Sibylline books when the books were purchased.
Significantly, Augustus moved the Sibylline books from the Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus to the temple of Apollo Palatinus.
Some religious groups created, forged, Sibylline books of their own to give credence to their own claims of prophesy.
The Sibylline books were destroyed by fire in 83 B.C. but many later forgeries were made.
He evidently regarded the Sibylline books from which he quoted as substantially identical with those of which Varro wrote.
Chapter One questions the connection between the Sibylline books and the Magna Mater cult.
Examples from Classical Literature
The thoughts of these men are like the sibylline leaves, profound but lost.
The very comparison with her tends to divest the others of the sibylline character.
And was it founded in obedience to some sibylline direction?
In the sibylline Leaves, 1829, the last five lines were replaced.
He has also been deemed the forger of the sibylline oracles.
Such were the authors of apocalypses and sibylline writings.
It is a sibylline answer which nowise prejudices what he may do in future.
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