Caligulain a sentence
Caligula as in: the Roman emperor
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Caligula the date merchant: "Horrible name!† (source)
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In the center of the piazza rose Caligula's 350-ton Egyptian obelisk.† (source)
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The corners where toughs had been stationed since the time of Caligula were now empty.† (source)
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One of them said, "Taggart can afford to do it, if he pleases" and the other said something about the horse of some Roman emperor named Caligula.† (source)
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I laid it, dead, on my gauntlet, and Caligula didn't refuse to come but he wouldn't eat.† (source)
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and, as Caligula, had caroused with the green-shirted jockeys in their stables and supped in an ivory manger with a jewel-frontleted horse;† (source)
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I had read Goldsmith's History of Rome, and had formed my opinion of Nero, Caligula, &c.† (source)
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Caligula made a horse a consul; Charles II made a knight of a sirloin.† (source)
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Rome was doubtless a very amusing place in the days of Caligula, but it has sadly fallen off since.† (source)
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My dead father, who liked a joke, peace to his bones, used to say, talking of our ancestors, that the ancient stock of the Simeonov-Pischins was descended from that identical horse that Caligula made a senator.... [Sits] But the trouble is, I've no money!† (source)
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Caligula or Nero, those treasure-seekers, those desirers of the impossible, would have accorded to the poor wretch, in exchange for his wealth, the liberty he so earnestly prayed for.† (source)
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The nuns at St. Agnes taught us that Diocletian was a huge villain, right along with Nero and Caligula.† (source)
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and, as Caligula, had caroused with the green-shirted jockeys in their stables, and supped in an ivory manger with a jewel-frontleted horse;† (source)
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It was brought in by Caligula.† (source)
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I'll pick up the lizard and call Caligula back.† (source)
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The Ciceronian period, which hardly sufficed for Verres, would be blunted on Caligula.† (source)
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