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How to use Sibyl in a sentence

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When they are to arrive in Italy they are to seek out a prophetess called the Sibyl at Cumae.
She came to the conclusion that Bridget and Sibyl Nevile were just children and pulled her mantle over her wet shoulders in a pout.
Sibyl Frei, Principal of DeGros Marsh Consulting, organized the mentorship think tank, and researched and wrote these documents.
As an excellent Latinist, he would have been familiar with the tale of the Sibyl, and probably kept the painting nearby.
From the thinning mist, Sibyl watched as the serfs outside the outer bailey plowed the acres of harvest-ready grain and whatnot.
Will ran towards the outer courtyard, Sibyl in close pursuit, noticeably slowed down by her thin shoes and bulky dress.
She was to become a lady-in-waiting for a baroness in Norfolk, the end of the English world for Sibyl.
Sibyl glanced back at the rising and falling tides of the English Channel, and sighed with the grace of a heavy heart.
When Aeneas travels to the underworld, as most heroes do, he is accompanied by Sibyl, his guide sent by Apollo.
Sibyl watched as Lady Plymouth's private troubadour began to instinctively pluck strings of the viol.
Sibyl was never in a mood to compete with her, for they each had different opinions and views on how things should come to pass.
Sibyl watched with fascination and stood, straightening her tight-fitting, crimson gown.
Nathan remembered that Hakim and Irina had told him about Sibyl, the young woman who could answer his questions.
Sibyl is the young woman you will meet after the ritual.
Aeneas and the Sibyl, while seated on the boat of Charon, navigated on the waters of Acheron and arrived to the other shore.
With a playful interest, Sibyl remembered what Bridget had done, and following her example, lowered her chest and slipped a hand beneath her bosom to raise it.
In 1180 he married Sibyl, sister of the leprous Baldwin IV, king of Jerusalem.
To bring about such great changes, Sibyl continued, first there must be a location of great instability.
Nathan explained to Sibyl what he believed had happened during the ritual as clearly as he could.
Sibyl saw that she had succeeded in her mission and smiled contently.
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Examples from Classical Literature
He has the inspiration and the science of the Sibyl without her contortions.
Sibyl hastened away, and returned with her vinaigrette, which she handed to Rolfe.
So neas and Achates plunged into the primeval forest near which the Sibyl dwelt.
But it seems to me now that I had better tell you what the cumaean Sibyl has actually done for me.
Admit the figure of the cumaean Sibyl, in like manner, to be the coinage only of Virgil's brain.
The prophetic rage of the cumaean Sibyl displays in the strongest colours the enthusiasm of the poet.
It was an act of domestic high treason to interrupt the Sibyl at her books.
Through the crowd of ungainly, shabbily dressed actors, Sibyl Vane moved like a creature from a finer world.
A quarter of an hour afterwards, amidst an extraordinary turmoil of applause, Sibyl Vane stepped on to the stage.
She remembers her past life as the Sibyl of Cumae, a Roman oracle whose powers are now being channeled by the Vatican to maintain world control.
The Sibyl of Cumae, wooed by Apollo, was offered a year of life for every grain of sand she could gather in one hand.
Your voice and the voice of Sibyl Vane are two things that I shall never forget.
Then did anchises send forth his son and the Sibyl by the ivory gate.
The Sibyl placed them in rows on the ledges of rock inside the cavern.
The cumaean Sibyl has prophesied that Rome will possess the earth.
They are famous in legend as the seat of the oracle of the cumaean Sibyl.
I even saw you pass with Sibyl in the dogcart, but you didn't see me.
He was conscious also of the shallowness and vanity of his mother's nature, and in that saw infinite peril for Sibyl and Sibyl's happiness.
Sibyl and he were having what he said afterward was quite a straight talk.
It was like the golden branch that gained AEneas and the Sibyl admittance into Hades.
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