Phalaris arundinacea is used to shelter sheep in Australia. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 11] Reference
Protestants at the bidding of that "red Phalaris," the Cardinal of. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
Phalaris and Busiris were the gentlest of men in comparison with you. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
Phalaris; successively Archdeacon of Totnes, Dean of Carlisle, Dean of. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference
This Phalaris was a most cruell tyraunte of the citie of Agrigentine in. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1] Reference
By making Phalaris military dictator, you have already let yourselves be bridled. From Wordnik.com. [Rhetoric] Reference
Phalaris, tyrant of Acragas, pursued a policy of extreme repression and ruthless expansion. From Wordnik.com. [651 (Or 628)] Reference
As he came near, behold two heroes of the Ancient army, Phalaris and AEsop, lay fast asleep. From Wordnik.com. [The Battle of the Books] Reference
Dionysius and Phalaris, but they will see that they had had greater security for a longer time. From Wordnik.com. [Discourses] Reference
Cambridge, took a leading part in the controversy regarding the genuineness of the Epistles of Phalaris. From Wordnik.com. [The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899] Reference
As Phalaris did those of Agrigentum opposed to his rule, he finished by hating Southerners and Democrats. From Wordnik.com. [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference
Mixtapology Volume Three, the new podcast from DJ Phalaris, has recently been released at FudoMouth. net. From Wordnik.com. [It’s A Wonderful Apocalypse? | Disinformation] Reference
The same Phalaris wrote many proper and short Epistles, full of vertuous instructions, and holsome admonitions. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1] Reference
Letters of Phalaris controversy by writing The Battle of the Books, which was, however, not published until 1704. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal to Stella] Reference
Instances of the fable are that of Stesichorus about Phalaris, and that of Aesop in defence of the popular leader. From Wordnik.com. [Rhetoric] Reference
However they are their own confuters, for while they lay down in the schools that Aristides was as unjust as Phalaris, and. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
Greek works of Phalaris and Aesop, which Temple had extolled as ancients were spurious and really composi - tions of modern times. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
If I get these two girls into my power, Heaven forbid that I should be a second Phalaris, who turned his bull upon the artist! —. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
For Phalaris was just that minute dreaming how a most vile poetaster had lampooned him, and how he had got him roaring in his bull. From Wordnik.com. [The Battle of the Books] Reference
Small seeds can be carried on the wind, as is the case with the aquatic grasses Phragmites and Phalaris and other emergents (e.g. Typha). From Wordnik.com. [Macrophytes] Reference
Employs Charles Boyle to edit the letters of Phalaris. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4] Reference
Issues a new edition of the Letters of Phalaris, 592, 593. From Wordnik.com. [Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)] Reference
Boyle, Charles, nominal editor of the Letters of Phalaris, ii. From Wordnik.com. [Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)] Reference
Bentley, Richard, his dissertation on the letters of Phalaris. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4] Reference
Boyle, Charles, his college edition of the letters of Phalaris. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4] Reference
His answer to Bentley's dissertation on the letters of Phalaris. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4] Reference
Phalaris, a thousand years ago, play very much the same part with. From Wordnik.com. [Faust's Leben, Thaten und Höllenfahrt. English] Reference
Your excellence, then, like another Perillus, has found a Phalaris. From Wordnik.com. [Faust's Leben, Thaten und Höllenfahrt. English] Reference
Infinite Injustice, as in the accursed iron belly of a Phalaris 'Bull!. From Wordnik.com. [Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.] Reference
Phalaris, Letters of, controversy upon their merits and genuineness, ii. From Wordnik.com. [Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)] Reference
People who had never heard of the Epistles of Phalaris began to inquire about them. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 3] Reference
Phalaris made the first experiment by shutting up the inventor himself in his own bull. From Wordnik.com. [Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3] Reference
Such was the message of Phalaris; and his statement is in strict accordance with the facts. From Wordnik.com. [Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02] Reference
Julian, Symmachus, and also Lucian, who vulgarly, but falsely, is believed to have been Phalaris. From Wordnik.com. [Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)] Reference
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