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She sat like a sibyl, elbows on knees, chin in hands, her gaze narrowed and fixed.— The Long Roll
[TN-178 Sibyls.= Plato speaks of only one sibyl; Martian Capella says there were two (the Erythræan or Cumæan sibyl, and the Phrygian_); Pliny speaks of the three sibyls; Jackson maintains, on the authority of Ælian, that there were four_; Shakespeare speaks of the nine sibyls of old Rome (1 Henry VI.— Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3
"What I ought to do is to try something as different as possible from that thing; not the sibyl, the muse, the tremendous creature, but the charming woman, the person one knows, differently arranged as she appears en ville_, she calls it.— The Tragic Muse
--_Kugler The belief of the Roman Catholic Church in the testimony of the sibyl is shown by the well-known hymn, said to have been composed by Pope Innocent III, at the close of the thirteenth century beginning with the verse Dies irć, dies illa Solvet sćclum in favilla Teste David cum Sibylla It may be inferred that this hymn, admitted into the liturgy of the Roman Church, gave sanction to the adoption of the sibyls into Christian art.— The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art
Then says Gudrid: "Although I am neither skilled in the black art nor a sibyl, yet my foster-mother, Halldis, taught me in Iceland that spell-song, which she called Warlocks."— The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503

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