sibyllic

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Upon the whole, it was quite in the lyric style—a style I always admire on account of that spirit of Sibyllic confidence and assurance which is, perhaps, its prime ingredient.

From The Confidence-Man by Melville, Herman

Its Sibyllic splendor is beaming With Hope and in Beauty to-night:— See!—it flickers up the sky through the night!

From Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works by Poe, Edgar Allan

She stayed, however, in Paris, which she apostrophises with Sibyllic candour:— O city of pleasure, what did I see When passing through or staying in thee.

From Masques & Phases by Ross, Robert