Thesaurus / sibylline

sibylline

How to use sibylline in a sentence

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 DEVOURERSANNIE VIVANTI CHARTRES

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.

Like sibylline prophecy the voice of the unseen preacher struck down on us.

Angela always bored her cousin; to-day she irritated him, especially when she took a chair and the sibylline attitude.

PATHS OF JUDGEMENTANNE DOUGLAS SEDGWICK

A few days later she again met her old gipsy crone Hagar Burton, who repeated her sibylline declaration.

These and all in the Sibylline Leaves were written before the end of 1817, when he had completed his forty-fifth year.

Their Sibylline books have prophesied the fall of Rome, though they use the name 'Babylon.'

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985