sybilline

• Ftatateeta seats herself on the step of the loggia, and sits there, watching the scene with sybilline intensity. —  Caesar and Cleopatra
• And wild November's sybilline array; -- —  Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"
• A few of these sybilline leaves, however, were rescued from the flames and conveyed to his mother. —  Oliver Goldsmith A Biography
• But this (to use his own language) he "evites," by judiciously observing, that where service was performed in an unknown tongue, the devotion of the people was always observed to be much increased thereby; as, for instance, in the church of Rome, -- that St. Augustine, with his monks, advanced to meet King Ethelbert singing litanies (in a language his majesty could not possibly have understood), and converted him and his whole court on the spot; -- that the sybilline books .... —  The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English
• When weary of dipping water from the wimpling brook, she would sit under the lilac bushes, and look at Miss Thusa's sybilline figure, moving slowly over the grass, swaying the watering-pot up and down in her right hand, scattering ten thousand liquid diamonds as she moved. —  Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel

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