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Cassandra
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  • Cassandra would be shamed.†   (source)
  • It was Cassandra, one of the elder's wives.†   (source)
  • "Her name is Cassandra Melissa Clarissa Patricia Inez lona Rhodes and she weighed"--Misty slung her arms around Dean's neck and squeezed--"fifteen pounds and four ounces.†   (source)
  • Why play Cassandra?†   (source)
  • In the TV series, The X-Files, a woman named Cassandra was abducted by aliens, but nobody believed her.
  • "Yes," said Harry, looking down his booklist, "I need Unfogging the Future by Cassandra Vablatsky."†   (source)
  • "Her name is Cassandra O'Koren," my mother said, and now her voice didn't sound so strong.†   (source)
  • Despite such letters, Cassandra insists that there was nothing "heavy" about their friendship.†   (source)
  • It's Cassandra," my father told her, his voice flat.†   (source)
  • Like Cassandra recently told me: I just don't know how Cassie would respond to that label, "martyr."†   (source)
  • And I know that Adam is doing the same for Cassandra.†   (source)
  • "Well," she said to Boo the weekend before, over coffee, "I suppose Cassandra would be gone anyway.†   (source)
  • A pause, and then she whispered, "Jack, it's Cassandra.†   (source)
  • Cassandra and I had always talked about taking a photography class.†   (source)
  • CASSANDRA: The stench is like a breath from the tomb.†   (source)
  • Not Cassie for Cassandra.†   (source)
  • But I think — correct me if I am mistaken — that you are the first in your family since Cassandra to be possessed of Second Sight?†   (source)
  • Cassandra, a close friend, has similar recollections: Cassie wore these ball-chain necklaces and shiny blouses, and I was so scared of her.†   (source)
  • An excerpt from a letter Cassie wrote to Cassandra about a year before she died confirms her point: Hey Cass!†   (source)
  • Cassandra, a friend from West Bowles, was especially close to Cassie throughout the last year of her life: Cassie and I sometimes talked about self-image, about how we saw ourselves.†   (source)
  • But now that I've spilled family secrets from my own point of view, it's only fair to let Cassie describe them from hers, as she did in this undated letter to Cassandra: Have you started looking at colleges and stuff yet?†   (source)
  • "Cassandra!" my mother wailed into the phone, all the anger and fear of the last twenty-four hours bursting across the line.†   (source)
  • "Cassandra," my father said finally.†   (source)
  • I was standing in front of the TV, watching the offense get organized, when Stewart said, in a lower voice, "Is there any news about Cassandra?"†   (source)
  • "Dammit, Cassandra," my father said.†   (source)
  • My mother made affirmative noises as Cass described her Christmas, and then I heard my father say, "Hello, Cassandra."†   (source)
  • I thought of the other Cassandra, the one she'd been named for, the girl who could see her own future.†   (source)
  • Cassandra!†   (source)
  • Cassandra?†   (source)
  • Cassandra O'Koren.†   (source)
  • So Cassandra it was.†   (source)
  • It's Cassandra.†   (source)
  • Cassandra, listen to me.†   (source)
  • Cassandra, have you seen Mikil?†   (source)
  • A pile of Cassandras, Harlequins and Columbines, jolted along high above the passers-by, all possible grotesquenesses, from the Turk to the savage, Hercules supporting Marquises, fishwives who would have made Rabelais stop up his ears just as the Maenads made Aristophanes drop his eyes, tow wigs, pink tights, dandified hats, spectacles of a grimacer, three-cornered hats of Janot tormented with a butterfly, shouts directed at pedestrians, fists on hips, bold attitudes, bare shoulders,…†   (source)
  • [* See CASSANDRA, by Florence Nightingale, printed in THE CAUSE, by R. Strachey.†   (source)
  • …and right about the brother-in-law because if he hadn't been a demon his children wouldn't have needed protection from him and she wouldn't have had to go out there and be betrayed by the old meat and find instead of a widowed Agamemnon to her Cassandra an ancient stiff-jointed Pyramus to her eager though untried Thisbe who could approach her in this unbidden April's compounded demonry and suggest that they breed together for test and sample and if it was a boy they would marry; would…†   (source)
  • …done irrevocable and incalculable damage, and gone on—a grim mausoleum air of puritan righteousness and outraged female vindictiveness in which Miss Rosa's childhood (that aged and ancient and timeless absence of youth which consisted of a Cassandra-like listening beyond closed doors, of lurking in dim halls filled with that presbyterian effluvium of lugubrious and vindictive anticipation while she waited for the infancy and childhood with which nature had confounded and betrayed her…†   (source)
  • [1* 'It remains a strange and almost inexplicable fact that in Athena's city, where women were kept in almost Oriental suppression as odalisques or drudges, the stage should yet have produced figures like Clytemnestra and Cassandra Atossa and Antigone, Phedre and Medea, and all the other heroines who dominate play after play of the "misogynist" Euripides.†   (source)
  • Only I have always liked to believe that he intended to name her Cassandra, prompted by some pure dramatic economy not only to beget but to designate the presiding augur of his own disaster, and that he just got the name wrong through a mistake natural in a man who must have almost taught himself to read) When he returned home in '66, she had not seen him a hundred times in her whole life.†   (source)
  • …seemed to stand, to lurk, behind the neat picket fence of a small, grimly middle-class yard or lawn, looking out upon the whatever ogreworld of that quiet village street with that air of children born too late into their parents' lives and doomed to contemplate all human behavior through the complex and needless follies of adults—an air Cassandralike and humorless and profoundly and sternly prophetic out of all proportion to the actual years even of a child who had never been young.†   (source)
  • "Well—?" he asked, as she hovered Cassandra-like before him.†   (source)
  • Cassandra is a prisoner in his outer halls.†   (source)
  • So it was with the CASSANDRA, as brought us all safe home from Malabar, after England took the viceroy of the Indies; so it was with the old WALRUS, Flint's old ship, as I've seen amuck with the red blood and fit to sink with gold."†   (source)
  • "But if your excellency doubt my veracity"— "Signor Pastrini," returned Franz, "you are more susceptible than Cassandra, who was a prophetess, and yet no one believed her; while you, at least, are sure of the credence of half your audience.†   (source)
  • The king of men (it is Colonel Crawley, who, indeed, has no notion about the sack of Ilium or the conquest of Cassandra), the anax andron is asleep in his chamber at Argos.†   (source)
  • I also realized exactly why Cassandra was so unpopular.†   (source)
  • …boars
    butchered in some rich lord of power's halls

    for a wedding, banquet or groaning public feast.
    You in your day have witnessed hundreds slaughtered,
    killed in single combat or killed in pitched battle, true,
    but if you'd laid eyes on this it would have wrenched your heart—
    how we sprawled by the mixing-bowl and loaded tables there,
    throughout the palace, the whole floor awash with blood.
    But the death-cry of Cassandra, Priam's daughter—
    the most pitiful thing I heard!†   (source)
  • Cassandra.†   (source)
  • Such things as these Cassandra did relate.†   (source)
  • Confess the truth; by mad Cassandra, more Than Heav'n inspir'd, he sought a foreign shore!†   (source)
  • Cassandra cried, and curs'd th' unhappy hour; Foretold our fate; but, by the god's decree, All heard, and none believ'd the prophecy.†   (source)
  • Cassandra bids; and I declare her doom.†   (source)
  • Dymas and Hypanis by moonlight knew My motions and my mien, and to my party drew; With young Coroebus, who by love was led To win renown and fair Cassandra's bed, And lately brought his troops to Priam's aid, Forewarn'd in vain by the prophetic maid.†   (source)
  • Behold the royal prophetess, the fair Cassandra, dragg'd by her dishevel'd hair, Whom not Minerva's shrine, nor sacred bands, In safety could protect from sacrilegious hands: On heav'n she cast her eyes, she sigh'd, she cried'T was all she could— her tender arms were tied.†   (source)
  • This day revives within my mind what she Foretold of Troy renew'd in Italy, And Latian lands; but who could then have thought That Phrygian gods to Latium should be brought, Or who believ'd what mad Cassandra taught?†   (source)
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