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The Tiber
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  • The guard traced a line with his finger from St. Peter's Square across the Tiber River and up into the heart of old Rome.†   (source)
  • Gunther Glick floored the BBC van's accelerator and swerved through traffic as he tailed the four speeding Alpha Romeos across the Tiber River on Ponte Margherita.†   (source)
  • How he got there is still speculation, although a spokesman from Hospital Tiberina claims that Mr. Langdon fell out of the sky into the Tiber River shortly after midnight, was treated, and released.†   (source)
  • The sky above Rome had been filled with sights tonight …. a skyrocketing helicopter, an enormous explosion, and now this strange object that had plummeted into the churning waters of the Tiber River, directly off the shore of the river's tiny island, Isola Tiberina.†   (source)
  • The darkness rushing up beneath him …. the diving instincts coming back …. the reflexive locking of his spine and pointing of the toes …. the inflating of his lungs to protect his vital organs …. the flexing of his legs into a battering ram …. and finally …. the thankfulness that the winding Tiber River was raging …. making its waters frothy and air-filled …. and three times softer than standing water.†   (source)
  • He saw a lone warrior standing on a stone bridge, facing an entire army massed on the far side of the Tiber River.†   (source)
  • Letter of intro to the Tiber River god.†   (source)
  • "It's on the Tiber River.†   (source)
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  • Oh, there are a few named gangs around, like the River Kings and the Tiber Street Tigers, but here in the Southwest there's no gang rivalry.†   (source)
  • I saw the Tiber flowing along, yellow as jaundice.†   (source)
  • Far below the Tiber raged.†   (source)
  • The Tiber will wash it away.†   (source)
  • They were nearing the Tiber now and the broad bridge ramp that spanned the river.†   (source)
  • It was now about to fall much farther and run to join streams that made their way through the city... to the Tiber.†   (source)
  • The Tiber Creek and its adjacent canal are open sewers, a breeding ground for typhus, cholera, and dysentery.†   (source)
  • Maybe a hundred nautical miles to the mouth of the Tiber.†   (source)
  • "The Sublician Bridge was over there," she said, pointing to a bend in the Tiber.†   (source)
  • An intense tugging sensation filled his gut, and the Tiber obeyed his will.†   (source)
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  • The Tiber gurgled past them in the dark, the waters swollen from the winter thaw and spring floods.†   (source)
  • It's made of broken amphorae that were used as ballast on ships that docked in the Tiber.†   (source)
  • The Tiber itself was wide, lazy, and caramel-colored.†   (source)
  • His clothes and his skin steamed as if the Tiber's waters had given him an acid bath.†   (source)
  • Under an assumed name, I joined a swimming club near the Tiber.†   (source)
  • Once they reached the Tiber, they would disembark.†   (source)
  • Sanduvo was found in the Tiber, having struck his head and drowned.†   (source)
  • In the middle of the Tiber, Frank stumbled around, looking stunned but perfectly fine.†   (source)
  • "I carried Juno across the Tiber," Percy reminded them, speaking as firmly as he could.†   (source)
  • The Bellatis were preparing to attend a dinner across the Tiber, as they did almost every night.†   (source)
  • She could just barely hear a noise somewhere in the streets that fell to the Tiber.†   (source)
  • She remembered how the gorgons had tried to re-form in the Tiber.†   (source)
  • He made a smashing gesture with his fists, and the giant hands plunged the gorgons into the Tiber.†   (source)
  • They had named her river the Tiber and erected a classical capital of pantheons and temples, all adorned with images of history's great gods and goddesses—Apollo, Minerva, Venus, Helios, Vulcan, Jupiter.†   (source)
  • A refuge in Rome, north of the Tiber.†   (source)
  • "There is a refuge in Rome, north of the Tiber, which contains ten stones from Mount Sinai, one from heaven itself, and one with the visage of Luke's dark father.†   (source)
  • Langdon knew the forefathers' "new Rome" had been renamed Washington early in her history, and yet vestiges of their original dream remained: the Tiber's waters still flowed into the Potomac; senators still convened beneath a replica of St. Peter's dome; and Vulcan and Minerva still watched over the Rotunda's long-extinguished flame.†   (source)
  • Horatius, the Roman general, had single-handedly held off a horde of invaders, sacrificing himself on that bridge to keep the barbarians from crossing the Tiber.†   (source)
  • This might not be a problem, were it not for the Tiber being located a stone's throw from the Capitol Building, that beautiful unfinished idea that towers above the city like an allegory for the nation itself.†   (source)
  • This one will cause the Tiber to flood its banks so we can reenact a naval battle right in the Piazza Navona!†   (source)
  • Rattling over the Tiber's bridge, they swept up toward the great Mouth of Truth, whose dead-eyed grimace served as the city's entrance.†   (source)
  • This match had electrified the city, particularly the poorer districts that spread out along the Tiber's banks.†   (source)
  • If she had to go on a horrifying solo quest, at least she'd gotten to have lunch with Percy on the banks of the Tiber first.†   (source)
  • I'll go with you as far as the Tiber.†   (source)
  • By the time they approached the Tiber's mouth, it was late evening, and David's energies were fading.†   (source)
  • One morning, as they looked out from a forest on the crest of a mountain, they saw Rome silently straddling the Tiber, fresh, pale, and without mass.†   (source)
  • It spread through hills and valleys, jumped over the Tiber with dozens of bridges, and just kept sprawling to the horizon.†   (source)
  • They" were the countless human refugees who lived outside the city in sprawling tent communities and corrugated metal camps that littered what had been the Field of Mars and the Tiber's western banks.†   (source)
  • The sun rose behind a series of hills, driving off the night mists and illuminating a city whose walls and buildings sprawled about the hills and valleys, stretching forth along the Tiber like a growing garden.†   (source)
  • The Tiber didn't look much cleaner than the East River back home, where he'd had too many encounters with grouchy river spirits.†   (source)
  • Frank remembered the two gorgons in the Tiber—the way the river had pulled apart their remains to keep them from re-forming.†   (source)
  • When they crossed the Tiber Alessandro had difficulty holding him back, for the horse knew the road and strengthened with each familiar turn.†   (source)
  • The dark ribbon you see is the Tiber cutting through the light, and those white flakes, like mica, are the large piazze.†   (source)
  • There, after a glass of wine with his companion, and the simulated splitting of shares, Alessandro had only to cross the Tiber and he would be home.†   (source)
  • I would have gone from party to party in Rome, slept, like Fabio, with fourteen hundred foreign women, and rowed on the Tiber.†   (source)
  • An eastern view of the city and the Tiber was so deeply engraved in Alessandro's memory that he was able to summon it at will.†   (source)
  • For half the year the Tiber was nothing more than muck and reeds, and seldom was anything but opaque, so the fountains of Rome were for Roman youth something to ponder like a river.†   (source)
  • At first Alessandro feared that with the weakening of whatever held back its invisibly buttressed mass, it would collapse and cover the plain of the Tiber.†   (source)
  • They crossed the Tiber on the Ponte Aventino early enough in the morning for the fishermen to be on the bridge, lowering their square nets from complicated little derricks.†   (source)
  • They heard faraway rolling thunder that began on the sea and tracked toward Rome in masses of black like the clouds of swallows that nest by the Tiber and sometimes obliterate the November sky.†   (source)
  • But of all the birds resting in the trees along the Tiber at the end of October, none was half the flier, half the sounder, half the whistler, or half the darter of the swallow.†   (source)
  • The Tiber would already be in flood and the only people outside would be the sentries who stood before palaces and ministries, and even they had little houses made for chocolate soldiers.†   (source)
  • Since the war, I've slowed down a bit, and lately I've had to use this," he said, knocking the cane on the road, "but I've rowed on the Tiber, except when it has been bone dry or in flood, for forty years.†   (source)
  • A good penman can make rivers that race to the sea, rivers as wild and dizzy as a flume in the Alps, as choppy as the Isarco, as wide and smooth as the Tiber at Ostia, or as deep as the Po where it rolls into the Adriatic.†   (source)
  • Had he known her name, or that he had been close to her on the street half a dozen times without realizing it, or that from his window he could see her house far away across the Tiber, his life might have been different.†   (source)
  • Taking a bridge across the Tiber, they joined a stream of other men intently on their way to work as if the morning light on all the marble palaces, advancing through the gardens, and filling the perfectly proportioned squares, were nothing.†   (source)
  • They went on the Via del Corso all the way to the Piazza del Popolo, but instead of turning to cross the Tiber and make their way home they galloped into the Viale del Muro Torto and through the Porta Pinciana to the small triangle of land for which the attorney Giuliani had traded the garden.†   (source)
  • It made him think of Rome in autumn, of looking down the Via Condotti from the Piazza Trinita dei Monti at dusk, when the fires began to blaze in restaurants along the Tiber and a darkening orange sky silhouetted the royal palms on the Gianicolo.†   (source)
  • On a cold day in January when millions of swallows had taken possession of the trees along the Tiber and flown in mad black clouds that blocked the sky, Alessandro had watched from his father's office as thousands of people had passed through the winding streets below on their way to the Campidoglio.†   (source)
  • He knew that his fate now depended not upon the principles or training of the carabinieri but upon the degree of their frustration, and he realized that because of the cambinieri he would have to avoid the Laurentina for a year, and that, to return to Rome in the evening, he would have to swim his horse across the Tiber near Ostia, where it was wide and deep, and approach the city from the north.†   (source)
  • He thought of the trains rushing out of Tiburtina, their whisdes shrieking; of pigeons the color of gray pearls whirling around the high domes, mixing with the pale blue sky; of the Tiber urgently overflowing its banks in heavy rain; of the silent streets and stairs that had learned their unexpected sympathy for mortal man by watching him for generation after generation; and of the thunderstorms that washed the city clean and left it sparkling and steaming in the sun.†   (source)
  • THE TREES on the banks of the Tiber had not lost their leaves, and as the wind coursed through them it rattled their brittle foliage and raised fantastic black clouds, for Rome was occupied by millions of birds, perching on every branch, singing as if to warm the wind, hopping about in mad distraction on rails and cornices.†   (source)
  • Alessandro stood up and began to walk in the direction of the Tiber, but after he had gone a few steps he turned to go the other way, because he had decided that he wanted to pass by the construction on the top of the Via Veneto, to see the changes in the land for the sake of which his father had sold the garden.†   (source)
  • Someday he might be an old man sitting by a fountain in Rome, knocking at the rim with his cane to chase away the flies, shielding his eyes from the sun, and waiting for autumn, when the fields burned and the smell of ash covered the countryside and drifted into the city on cool currents of air over the Tiber.†   (source)
  • The moon was so close and full that it resembled the Roman moon in August, stunningly light and perfectly round as it rides above the horizon like a float on the waves, bathing the palms of the Tiber, the broken monuments, and the ash-colored fields in the warm light of its youth before it silvers in the cold.†   (source)
  • I will never forget Romulus suckling the Tiber.†   (source)
  • There were the big steel engravings on the wall—by Piranesi, in the heavy, scrollwork frames, the Tiber, the Colosseum, some ruined temple.†   (source)
  • The night is gloomy, and the Tiber is very near the Via Macello.†   (source)
  • "The Orontes against the Tiber!" he repeated, with an increase of scornful emphasis.†   (source)
  • There is an opinion that the extravagance and dissoluteness of the age had their origin in Rome, and spread thence throughout the empire; that the great cities but reflected the manners of their mistress on the Tiber.†   (source)
  • The Tiber was a Lethe, if the rather doctrinary eulogium made of it by Varus Vibiscus is to be credited: Contra Gracchos Tiberim habemus, Bibere Tiberim, id est seditionem oblivisci.†   (source)
  • Why, you see, he has a good understanding with the shepherds in the plains, the fishermen of the Tiber, and the smugglers of the coast.†   (source)
  • [58] Steps on the Aventine Hill, leading to the Tiber, to which the bodies of executed criminals were dragged by hooks to be thrown into the Tiber.†   (source)
  • Ten young descendants of Marius and the Gracchi, barefooted and out at elbows, with one hand resting on the hip and the other gracefully curved above the head, stared at the traveller, the post-chaise, and the horses; to these were added about fifty little vagabonds from the Papal States, who earned a pittance by diving into the Tiber at high water from the bridge of St. Angelo.†   (source)
  • Saint Terentius, Bishop of Port, where the mouth of the Tiber empties into the sea, requested that on his tomb might be engraved the sign which was placed on the graves of parricides, in the hope that passers-by would spit on his tomb.†   (source)
  • "Men of the Tiber," Messala continued, wresting a box with the dice in it from a hand near-by, "who is he most favored of the gods?†   (source)
  • "Men of the Tiber," he said, in a clear voice, "let us turn this waiting for our chief into a feast of Bacchus.†   (source)
  • On the Tiber there is a house, a royal property, which he has pledged to me; and to be its mistress is to be—†   (source)
  • The fishes of the Tiber would have fattening other than that they dig out of its ooze, would they not?†   (source)
  • They all speak Latin in purity, while each one appears in the in-door dress of the great capital on the Tiber; that is, in tunics short of sleeve and skirt, a style of vesture well adapted to the climate of Antioch, and especially comfortable in the too close atmosphere of the saloon.†   (source)
  • Against the Tiber's mouth, but far away, An ancient town was seated on the sea; A Tyrian colony; the people made Stout for the war, and studious of their trade: Carthage the name; belov'd by Juno more Than her own Argos, or the Samian shore.†   (source)
  • What, thinkest thou, was it that flung Horatius in full armour down from the bridge into the depths of the Tiber?†   (source)
  • Our narrow kingdom here the Tiber bounds; That other side the Latian state surrounds, Insults our walls, and wastes our fruitful grounds.†   (source)
  • A tract of land the Latins have possess'd Along the Tiber, stretching to the west, Which now Rutulians and Auruncans till, And their mix'd cattle graze the fruitful hill.†   (source)
  • The Trojan, from the main, beheld a wood, Which thick with shades and a brown horror stood: Betwixt the trees the Tiber took his course, With whirlpools dimpled; and with downward force, That drove the sand along, he took his way, And roll'd his yellow billows to the sea.†   (source)
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