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  • The detractors asserted that the movie was an example of Western propaganda that sought toerase the fact that Cleopatra was an African woman.†   (source)
  • She was draped out on the sofa in her green terry bathrobe and blue turban like Cleopatra cruising down the Nile, with Snowboots curled at her feet like some insane royal pet.†   (source)
  • There were three TV rooms without chairs, and one little rolling bookshelf filled with a bizarre assortment of volumes—Christian books, ancient copies of John D. MacDonald, Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, a handful of romances, and two Dorothy L. Sayers novels.†   (source)
  • Felicity straightens like Cleopatra's Needle.†   (source)
  • Ashley went as Cleopatra, Sumner as a mad scientist, and Laurel Adams as Marilyn Monroe in a peroxide wig and a dress that I could tell my mother thought was entirely too tight.†   (source)
  • It sounded corny when he said it, and she'd initially laughed and said no, but when he'd gently reached for her foot, slipped off her sandal, and begun his massage, she couldn't help but give in, imagining that Cleopatra must have felt much the same way as she relaxed under the gently swaying palm fronds.†   (source)
  • Professor Nolan introduced Deino, saying that she'd finished an amazing eleventh overall, and then Deino began Cleopatra's death scene monologue.†   (source)
  • I had read about Egypt's pyramids and Cleopatra and the great ancient library in Alexandria that was burned along with all its irreplaceable books.†   (source)
  • The lady, who was to become known as Billy Howe's Cleopatra, was Elizabeth Lloyd Loring, the wife of Joshua Loring, Jr., a member of a prominent Loyalist family whom Howe had hired to run the commissary for rebel prisoners.†   (source)
  • There, I lusted after the unattainable Elizabeth Taylor's Cleopatra, and, years later, lusted after others, oh so attainable.†   (source)
  • Cleopatra married her brother.†   (source)
  • Like — Cleopatra.†   (source)
  • Who suggested that Cleopatra smuggle herself in a carpet?†   (source)
  • Her bangs stood out from her forehead in a Cleopatra look.†   (source)
  • Just get her here, in Cleopatra's carpet, if you have to!†   (source)
  • You left out marrying Cleopatra.†   (source)
  • Philosopher Blaise Pascal wrote that had Cleopatra been less beautiful, the whole world would have changed.
  • The way you were trapped in Cleopatra's Needle.†   (source)
  • "You know," Shay said, "I read that the real Cleopatra wasn't even that great-looking.†   (source)
  • We headed into the old grove of trees, now bare of fruit, the grove of the Cleopatra tangerines.†   (source)
  • The Cleopatra trees stood black in the orange light, like Halloween cutouts.†   (source)
  • Cleopatra's Needle rose up in front of me.†   (source)
  • They walked down toward Uglyville until they found themselves in Cleopatra Park.†   (source)
  • Tino said, "My daddy and my Uncle Charlie are out in the Cleopatra grove startin' the fire.†   (source)
  • Some of its monuments were carted away, like Cleopatra's two needles.†   (source)
  • There's a whole Cleopatra thing going on.†   (source)
  • We'd take off on the run through the Cleopatra grove, choking on the smoke, tripping in the dark.†   (source)
  • I was born in the reign of Cleopatra VII.†   (source)
  • "Cleopatra," Zia said, "the seventh queen of that name.†   (source)
  • Dad and Mom did some kind of magic ritual at Cleopatra's Needle.†   (source)
  • A heartbeat later, I tumbled out at Cleopatra's Needle on the bank of the River Thames.†   (source)
  • I should not be surprised to see Cleopatra walking among us.†   (source)
  • I related how on my trip to Egypt I saw a splendid sculpture of a young, ebony-skinned Cleopatra.†   (source)
  • Caesar and Cleopatra, Act II -George Bernard Shaw ======== Chapter 1.†   (source)
  • 5 England France Cleopatra 95.†   (source)
  • This arc of the belt brought them through Cleopatra Park, where Tally threaded the slalom poles for old times' sake.†   (source)
  • When your parents released me from Cleopatra's Needle … there was much more energy than they expected.†   (source)
  • Something about my mother, and Cleopatra's Needle, and my father's last promise in the British Museum: I'll put things right.†   (source)
  • Two people, a man and a woman, stood bundled against the cold, holding hands in front of Cleopatra's Needle.†   (source)
  • Your father broke our most important law twice: once at Cleopatra's Needle, when he tried to summon the gods and your mother died assisting him.†   (source)
  • In case you've never seen it: the Needle is an obelisk, not a needle, and it doesn't have anything to do with Cleopatra.†   (source)
  • I wondered what he'd been about to tell us at Cleopatra's Needle—something about our mother and the night she died.†   (source)
  • Cleopatra's Needle glowed with power.†   (source)
  • Thousands of years of Egyptian power and tradition toppled by that foolish Queen Cleopatra, who thought she could host a goddess.†   (source)
  • I also couldn't help wondering about our stop at Cleopatra's Needle, how Dad had insisted on seeing it, as if he were steeling his courage, as if what he did at the British Museum had something to do with my mum.†   (source)
  • Cleopatra VII was even worse.†   (source)
  • Cleopatra's Needle in London?†   (source)
  • At Cleopatra's Needle?†   (source)
  • She does her eyes with a heavy black line over the lid like Cleopatra, and black mascara and smoky dark-blue eye shadow, so her eyes are blue-rimmed, bruise-colored, as if someone's punched her; and she uses white face powder and pale pink lipstick, which makes her look ill, or as if she's been up very late every night for weeks.†   (source)
  • She had long, dark hair cut Cleopatra-style and a white gossamer dress that complemented her graceful figure.†   (source)
  • Cleopatra's old capital, you know, where the Egyptian Empire fell apart, so magic tends to get twisted around.†   (source)
  • Cleopatra proved controversial; many of my comrades took exception to the fact that the queen of Egypt was depicted by a raven-haired, violet-eyed American actress, however beautiful.†   (source)
  • I tried to picture it as it might've been in ancient times, before Cleopatra, Egypt's final pharaoh, chose the wrong side in a Roman civil war and lost her life and her kingdom.†   (source)
  • Among the early films we saw—now in color, with dialogue—were The Ten Commandments with Charlton Heston as Moses, The King and I, with Yul Brynner, and Cleopatra, with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.†   (source)
  • From here I could see everything—the Houses of Parliament, the London Eye, even Cleopatra's Needle on the Victoria Embankment, where my mother had died.†   (source)
  • And if it comes to pass that we win this war without Ra's help, if you have disgraced me for nothing, I swear that the death of Cleopatra and the curse of Akhenaton will look like nothing compared to the wrath I will visit on you and your family for all time.†   (source)
  • It seemed possible that she was Helen of Troy but I knew she wasn't Cleopatra because she was not a redhead; she was a natural blonde.†   (source)
  • Like Helen or Troy, or Cleopatra.†   (source)
  • What was Shakespeare's state of mind, for instance, when he wrote LEAR and ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA?†   (source)
  • What does your Shakespeare say of Cleopatra?†   (source)
  • Here's the fool, here's the villain, here in a car comes Cleopatra, burning on her barge.†   (source)
  • Antony and Cleopatra WE FOUND Thea's house ready.†   (source)
  • And how completely ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA would have been altered had she done so!†   (source)
  • Nobody, it seemed, was reading ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA.†   (source)
  • Cleopatra's only feeling about Octavia is one of jealousy.†   (source)
  • Miss Gage was with me and the doctor put his arm around her and said she was more beautiful than Cleopatra.†   (source)
  • In fact, you would have been a rainbow man to him, a beacon of flashing and radiating colours, which ran into one another and had rays all about You would have burned upon the water like Cleopatra in the poem.†   (source)
  • Cleopatra the former queen of Egypt.†   (source)
  • Certainly, if we consider it, Cleopatra must have had a way with her; Lady Macbeth, one would suppose, had a will of her own; Rosalind, one might conclude, was an attractive girl.†   (source)
  • Cleopatra did not like Octavia.†   (source)
  • And this susceptibility of theirs is doubly unfortunate, I thought, returning again to my original enquiry into what state of mind is most propitious for creative work, because the mind of an artist, in order to achieve the prodigious effort of freeing whole and entire the work that is in him, must be incandescent, like Shakespeare's mind, I conjectured, looking at the book which lay open at ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA.†   (source)
  • Not being a historian, one might go even further and say that women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time—Clytemnestra, Antigone, Cleopatra, Lady Macbeth, Phedre, Cressida, Rosalind, Desdemona, the Duchess of Malfi, among the dramatists; then among the prose writers: Millamant, Clarissa, Becky Sharp, Anna Karenina, Emma Bovary, Madame de Guermantes—the names flock to mind, nor do they recall women 'lacking in personality and character.'†   (source)
  • That was how Shakespeare wrote, I thought, looking at ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA; and when people compare Shakespeare and Jane Austen, they may mean that the minds of both had consumed all impediments; and for that reason we do not know Jane Austen and we do not know Shakespeare, and for that reason Jane Austen pervades every word that she wrote, and so does Shakespeare.†   (source)
  • CYRANO (shaking his head): Look I a Caesar to woo Cleopatra?†   (source)
  • You act like you were a combination of Queen Victoria and Cleopatra.†   (source)
  • Cleopatra was forty-eight when Antony threw away the world for her sake.†   (source)
  • That boy's business of the intoxication of language—Antony and Cleopatra—had shrivelled utterly.†   (source)
  • He opened Shakespeare—Antony and Cleopatra; pushed Shakespeare aside.†   (source)
  • They were Phryne, Cleopatra, Messalina, those three celebrated courtesans.†   (source)
  • Jesus Christ made a pun on St. Peter, Moses on Isaac, AEschylus on Polynices, Cleopatra on Octavius.†   (source)
  • Cleopatra, dying, bequeathed her arts, and is avenged; she has a successor in every Roman's house.†   (source)
  • The impulse to show herself in a splendid setting—she had thought for a moment of representing Tiepolo's Cleopatra—had yielded to the truer instinct of trusting to her unassisted beauty, and she had purposely chosen a picture without distracting accessories of dress or surroundings.†   (source)
  • He indicated with a forlornly waving hand the shelves of shoe-boxes, the seat of thin wood perforated in rosettes, the display of shoe-trees and tin boxes of blacking, the lithograph of a smirking young woman with cherry cheeks who proclaimed in the exalted poetry of advertising, "My tootsies never got hep to what pedal perfection was till I got a pair of clever classy Cleopatra Shoes."†   (source)
  • And Sondra, all gayety because of his presence, now jumping up, her bright scarf held aloft in one hand like a pennant, and exclaiming foolishly and gayly: "Cleopatra sailing to meet—to meet—who was it she was sailing to meet, anyhow?"†   (source)
  • "Oh, you silly!" returned Sondra, spreading her feet sufficiently apart to maintain her equilibrium, and adding for the benefit of Burchard: "No, you don't either, Burchy," then continuing: "Cleopatra sailing, a-a-oh, I know, aquaplaning," and throwing her head back and her arms wide, while the boat continued to jump and lurch like a frightened horse.†   (source)
  • Was he not like Keats? she asked; and reflected how she might give him a taste of Antony and Cleopatra and the rest; lent him books; wrote him scraps of letters; and lit in him such a fire as burns only once in a lifetime, without heat, flickering a red gold flame infinitely ethereal and insubstantial over Miss Pole; Antony and Cleopatra; and the Waterloo Road.†   (source)
  • Like Mark Antony, for days and days along his green-turfed, flowery Nile, he indolently floats, openly toying with his red-cheeked Cleopatra, ripening his apricot thigh upon the sunny deck.†   (source)
  • But she became conscious of the two strangers who suddenly paused as if to contemplate the Cleopatra, and, without looking at them, immediately turned away to join a maid-servant and courier who were loitering along the hall at a little distance off.†   (source)
  • "Cleopatra," Conseil shot back.†   (source)
  • They say that Cleopatra (excuse an instance from Roman history) was fond of sticking gold pins into her slave-girls' breasts and derived gratification from their screams and writhings.†   (source)
  • I am not quite clear whether these articles were carried penitentially or ostentatiously; but I rather think they were displayed as articles of property,—much as Cleopatra or any other sovereign lady on the Rampage might exhibit her wealth in a pageant or procession.†   (source)
  • Cleopatra matters, beyond bounds, to Antony, but his colleagues, his antagonists, the state of Rome and the impending battle also prodigiously matter; Portia matters to Antonio, and to Shylock, and to the Prince of Morocco, to the fifty aspiring princes, but for these gentry there are other lively concerns; for Antonio, notably, there are Shylock and Bassanio and his lost ventures and the extremity of his predicament.†   (source)
  • She might have had pearls melted into her champagne if she liked—another Cleopatra—and the potentate of Peterwaradin would have given half the brilliants off his jacket for a kind glance from those dazzling eyes.†   (source)
  • It is not the fault of their authors that the long string of wanton's tragedies, from Antony and Cleopatra to Iris, are snares to poor girls, and are objected to on that account by many earnest men and women who consider Mrs Warren's Profession an excellent sermon.†   (source)
  • She lays close to the Endymion, between her and the Cleopatra, just to the eastward of the sheer hulk.†   (source)
  • Antony and Cleopatra (act iv.†   (source)
  • And observe that Cleopatra's pun preceded the battle of Actium, and that had it not been for it, no one would have remembered the city of Toryne, a Greek name which signifies a ladle.†   (source)
  • Franz went in with his eyes blindfolded, and was waited on by mutes and by women to whom Cleopatra was a painted strumpet.†   (source)
  • Ned Land married to Cleopatra?†   (source)
  • Quickness was ready at the call, and the two figures passed lightly along by the Meleager, towards the hall where the reclining Ariadne, then called the Cleopatra, lies in the marble voluptuousness of her beauty, the drapery folding around her with a petal-like ease and tenderness.†   (source)
  • , 12 Buckingham Street, W. C.]; and ask yourself whether, if the lot in life therein described were your lot in life, you would not prefer the lot of Cleopatra, of Theodora, of the Lady of the Camellias, of Mrs Tanqueray, of Zaza, of Iris.†   (source)
  • Towards noon whales were raised; but so soon as the ship sailed down to them, they turned and fled with swift precipitancy; a disordered flight, as of Cleopatra's barges from Actium.†   (source)
  • Hence, tea-gardens, goguettes, caboulots, bouibuis, mastroquets, bastringues, manezingues, bibines of the rag-pickers, caravanseries of the caliphs, I certify to you, I am a voluptuary, I eat at Richard's at forty sous a head, I must have Persian carpets to roll naked Cleopatra in!†   (source)
  • Cleopatra….†   (source)
  • …the Archipelago, Asia Minor, or the Cape, sparkling in bottles, whose grotesque shape seemed to give an additional flavor to the draught,—all these, like one of the displays with which Apicius of old gratified his guests, passed in review before the eyes of the astonished Parisians, who understood that it was possible to expend a thousand louis upon a dinner for ten persons, but only on the condition of eating pearls, like Cleopatra, or drinking refined gold, like Lorenzo de' Medici.†   (source)
  • Cleopatra is dead.†   (source)
  • Where is Cleopatra?†   (source)
  • Who Cleopatra, fleshpot of Egypt, and Cressid and Venus are we may guess.†   (source)
  • /Muss/, in the sense of a row, is also obsolete over there, but it is to be found in "Anthony and Cleopatra."†   (source)
  • Do you think the writer of Antony and Cleopatra, a passionate pilgrim, had his eyes in the back of his head that he chose the ugliest doxy in all Warwickshire to lie withal?†   (source)
  • …Tone, the Mother of the Maccabees, the Last of the Mohicans, the Rose of Castile, the Man for Galway, The Man that Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo, The Man in the Gap, The Woman Who Didn't, Benjamin Franklin, Napoleon Bonaparte, John L. Sullivan, Cleopatra, Savourneen Deelish, Julius Caesar, Paracelsus, sir Thomas Lipton, William Tell, Michelangelo Hayes, Muhammad, the Bride of Lammermoor, Peter the Hermit, Peter the Packer, Dark Rosaleen, Patrick W. Shakespeare, Brian Confucius, Murtagh…†   (source)
  • [Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, IRAS, and ALEXAS.†   (source)
  • [Exeunt ANTONY, CLEOPATRA, and ENOBARBUS.†   (source)
  • [Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, IRAS, and ALEXAS.†   (source)
  • Say not so, Agrippa: If Cleopatra heard you, your reproof Were well deserv'd of rashness.†   (source)
  • [Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, IRAS, and MARDIAN.†   (source)
  • [Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, IRAS, ALEXAS, and Attendants.†   (source)
  • [Enter, above, CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN and IRAS.†   (source)
  • Nay, blush not, Cleopatra; I approve Your wisdom in the deed.†   (source)
  • We look'd not for Mark Antony here: pray you, is he married to Cleopatra?†   (source)
  • ] [Enter CLEOPATRA, led by CHARMIAN and IRAS, EROS following.†   (source)
  • [Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, IRAS, and MARDIAN.†   (source)
  • ] I will o'ertake thee, Cleopatra, and Weep for my pardon.†   (source)
  • Bear me, good friends, where Cleopatra bides; 'tis the last service that I shall command you.†   (source)
  • [Enter ANTONY and CLEOPATRA, with their trains; Eunuchs fanning her.†   (source)
  • 'tis sweating labour To bear such idleness so near the heart As Cleopatra this.†   (source)
  • [Enter CLEOPATRA, ENOBARBUS, CHARMIAN, and IRAS.†   (source)
  • [Exeunt ANTONY and CLEOPATRA, with their Train.†   (source)
  • Most absolute lord, My mistress Cleopatra sent me to thee.†   (source)
  • I had thought t'have held it poor; but since my lord Is Antony again I will be Cleopatra.†   (source)
  • Since Cleopatra died, I have liv'd in such dishonour that the gods Detest my baseness.†   (source)
  • [Enter ANTONY and CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, IRAS, and others attending.†   (source)
  • But all the charms of love, Salt Cleopatra, soften thy wan'd lip!†   (source)
  • You shall advise me in all for Cleopatra.†   (source)
  • I am sorry to give breathing to my purpose,— CLEOPATRA.†   (source)
  • No, my most wronged sister; Cleopatra Hath nodded him to her.†   (source)
  • ] Give me thy hand; [Enter CLEOPATRA, attended.†   (source)
  • [Enter ANTONY, CLEOPATRA, ENOBARBUS, CHARMIAN, IRAS, ALEXAS, and others.†   (source)
  • Bring in the banquet quickly; wine enough Cleopatra's health to drink.†   (source)
  • Next is Cleopatra, the luxurious.†   (source)
  • A Room in CLEOPATRA'S palace.†   (source)
  • Therefore heaven nature charg'd That one body should be fill'd With all graces wide-enlarg'd: Nature presently distill'd Helen's cheek, but not her heart; Cleopatra's majesty; Atalanta's better part; Sad Lucretia's modesty.†   (source)
  • Now, my dearest queen,— CLEOPATRA.†   (source)
  • O Cleopatra! thou art taken, queen!†   (source)
  • And the business you have broached here cannot be without you; especially that of Cleopatra's, which wholly depends on your abode.†   (source)
  • [Exeunt CLEOPATRA, ENOBARBUS, CHAR.†   (source)
  • Most sovereign creature,— CLEOPATRA.†   (source)
  • If it might please you,— CLEOPATRA.†   (source)
  • [Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, and IRAS.†   (source)
  • Another Room in CLEOPATRA'S palace.†   (source)
  • Despatch; From Antony win Cleopatra.†   (source)
  • Though he be honourable,— CLEOPATRA.†   (source)
  • Most gracious majesty,— CLEOPATRA.†   (source)
  • Swallows have built In Cleopatra's sails their nests: the augurers Say they know not,—they cannot tell;—look grimly, And dare not speak their knowledge.†   (source)
  • [Enter CLEOPATRA and ENOBARBUS.†   (source)
  • Most sweet queen,— CLEOPATRA.†   (source)
  • You see how easily she may be surpris'd: [Here PROCULEIUS and two of the Guard ascend the Monument by a ladder placed against a window, and, having ascended, come behind CLEOPATRA.†   (source)
  • Cleopatra, Do not abuse my master's bounty by Theundoing of yourself: let the world see His nobleness well acted, which your death Will never let come forth.†   (source)
  • Now, by my sword,— CLEOPATRA.†   (source)
  • The gods best know,— CLEOPATRA.†   (source)
  • Next, Cleopatra does confess thy greatness; Submits her to thy might, and of thee craves The circle of the Ptolemies for her heirs, Now hazarded to thy grace.†   (source)
  • —Were't twenty of the greatest tributaries That do acknowledge Caesar, should I find them So saucy with the hand of she here,—what's her name Since she was Cleopatra?†   (source)
  • But yet, madam,— CLEOPATRA.†   (source)
  • The city cast Her people out upon her; and Antony, Enthron'd i' the market-place, did sit alone, Whistling to the air; which, but for vacancy, Had gone to gaze on Cleopatra too, And made a gap in nature.†   (source)
  • A Room in CLEOPATRA'S palace.†   (source)
  • Cleopatra, catching but the least noise of this, dies instantly; I have seen her die twenty times upon far poorer moment: I do think there is mettle in death, which commits some loving act upon her, she hath such a celerity in dying.†   (source)
  • Gentle madam, no. CLEOPATRA.†   (source)
  • Here's the manner of't:— I' the market-place, on a tribunal silver'd, Cleopatra and himself in chairs of gold Were publicly enthron'd: at the feet sat Caesarion, whom they call my father's son, And all the unlawful issue that their lust Since then hath made between them.†   (source)
  • Speak to me home, mince not the general tongue: Name Cleopatra as she is call'd in Rome; Rail thou in Fulvia's phrase; and taunt my faults With such full licence as both truth and malice Have power to utter.†   (source)
  • Madam, madam,— CLEOPATRA.†   (source)
  • Cleopatra, Not what you have reserv'd, nor what acknowledg'd, Put we i' the roll of conquest: still be't yours, Bestow it at your pleasure; and believe Caesar's no merchant, to make prize with you Of things that merchants sold.†   (source)
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