She has a kind of sibylline intuition and the right to be irrationally. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Reason] Reference
But in time sibylline prophecies appearing favorable to. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
You asked for it: a sibylline political comment from Mr. Obama. From Wordnik.com. [Clinton on Colbert Report (And Edwards and Obama, Too) - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
The one is sagacious, argus-eyed; the other oracular, sibylline. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
There was something mysterious about the origin of the sibylline books. From Wordnik.com. [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] Reference
Faces of friends and counsellors that have flown for ever; the sibylline. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
It is an inward and sibylline sound of swazzle notes and speaking stones. From Wordnik.com. [A Year on the Wing] Reference
Are those their fata which we read in sibylline between the fas and its nefas?. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
In the first, they caused the sibylline books to be exhibited, and to give a reply to the. From Wordnik.com. [Discourses] Reference
She took my hand, and in a sibylline language, spoke to me of men black dressed in white. From Wordnik.com. [Sorcery in Brittany] Reference
"He will cry!" said Meta on the evening before, and nodded sibylline fashion, as though she knew everything. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig] Reference
But from them must come the sibylline response, for the true artist has no home upon earth save the heart of humanity!. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
It is reported that a woman called Amalthæa, from a foreign country, came to Tarquin the Proud to sell nine sibylline books. From Wordnik.com. [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] Reference
You need not any way doubt but that feminine old age is always fructifying in qualities sublime — I would have said sibylline. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
She smiled a certain curious sibylline smile of hers. From Wordnik.com. [Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose] Reference
And I had the poetess's sibylline profile in full view. From Wordnik.com. [The Way of Ambition] Reference
"I just knew," she said, with something of a sibylline air. From Wordnik.com. [The Judge] Reference
They knew well that sibylline look on the face of Miranda Brown. From Wordnik.com. [The Summons] Reference
Like sibylline prophecy the voice of the unseen preacher struck down on us. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference
The less comprehensible and more sibylline the sentence uttered, the better. From Wordnik.com. [Faith and Theology] Reference
If you were there on November 20, it's just sort of weird - the sibylline accuracy. From Wordnik.com. [jane dark's sugarhigh!] Reference
"Did YOU?" she asked; but Mrs. Rolliver, at this, grew suddenly veiled and sibylline. From Wordnik.com. [The Custom of the Country] Reference
Amyas, to whom such utterances were altogether sibylline and unintelligible, answered by. From Wordnik.com. [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] Reference
From the inner recesses of my being, where the sibylline voice of poetry resides, silence. From Wordnik.com. [RosieBell] Reference
Elena's pallid face looked forth, that face with the haunting eyes and the sibylline mouth. From Wordnik.com. [The Child of Pleasure] Reference
But at the end of it the weakest of them was the partly sibylline, partly mountebank intruder. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference
The governess, who was clever, studied Caesar's hand and expressed herself in sibylline terms. From Wordnik.com. [Caesar or Nothing] Reference
The sibylline leaves or books contained their teachings, and were preserved with the utmost care in. From Wordnik.com. [Poets of the South] Reference
A few days later she again met her old gipsy crone Hagar Burton, who repeated her sibylline declaration. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Sir Richard Burton] Reference
She started on them with a broken-bladed knife, preserving her sibylline air even in that homely occupation. From Wordnik.com. [The Rover] Reference
He seems also to recognize IV Esdras, and the Sibyl, though he admits that there are many sibylline forgeries. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
But see Camille Desmoulins, from the Cafe de Foy, rushing out, sibylline in face; his hair streaming, in each hand a pistol!. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
'Dead?' said Sinfi, the mysterious sibylline look returning immediately to her face, that had just seemed so frank and simple. From Wordnik.com. [Aylwin] Reference
You need not any way doubt but that feminine old age is always fructifying in qualities sublime -- I would have said sibylline. From Wordnik.com. [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3] Reference
Columbuses, Drakes, nimble Achilles; and sibylline meanings in some glance of yours infect my fancy with images of Moses, blind old. From Wordnik.com. [The Lord of the Sea] Reference
They all, in these strange world-deep silences of theirs, carry upon their intent and sibylline faces something of that mysterious charm. From Wordnik.com. [Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations] Reference
The accounts are all written on the sibylline leaves; they are in all languages, ancient and modern; and those concerning this story are in. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Shelley] Reference
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