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sibylline

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It is reported that a woman called Amalthæa, from a foreign country, came to Tarquin the Proud to sell nine sibylline books.

The door opened, and Frulein's head appeared, solemn and sibylline, with tears shining behind her spectacles.

The sibylline volume of man's history is open before us, and every page of it is written in blood or tears.

Time is like the Sibylline leaves, getting more precious the less there remains of it.

The thoughts of these men are like the Sibylline leaves, profound but lost.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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