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Caligula
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  • This happened to be connected with Caligula.†   (source)
  • I couldn't show it, but it did my heart good to see Caligula so offended.†   (source)
  • "I'll pick up the lizard and call Caligula back.†   (source)
  • I felt as if I were an object Caligula had dropped about a thousand feet to the earth.†   (source)
  • Again she missed, but this time came close, and Caligula took off.†   (source)
  • Thea sent Caligula away to her father's friend in Indiana, for his Trianon zoo.†   (source)
  • I couldn't keep my seat when Thea handed Caligula up to me.†   (source)
  • I think they must make you feel ashamed of me, ever since Caligula.†   (source)
  • She listened and was reasonably ready to be swayed, agreeing that Caligula should have another try.†   (source)
  • While she was unpleasantly stirred against Caligula I felt a little condemned with him.†   (source)
  • Her aim was wide; Caligula only raised his head when it struck above him.†   (source)
  • "Si, Caligula," I said.†   (source)
  • When we had this victory and Caligula was standing on the dresser in his hood with tufts, we kissed and danced or tromped around the room.†   (source)
  • I'd have thought, myself, that Caligula's flop would give me a sort of pleasure, but, curiously, that wasn't how it worked out.†   (source)
  • Thea still intended to sell illustrated articles about Caligula to the National Geographic or Harper's.†   (source)
  • He was falling and so was I. I felt the push of Caligula's spring as he left my arm, and then I saw the color of my own blood on the slope of stones.†   (source)
  • I couldn't question her judgment about Caligula--there I went along with her and had confidence by now, based on her proved ability with him.†   (source)
  • And because I heard Spanish for the first time, it was another word I made out, the Roman name of Caligula.†   (source)
  • I still had the dysentery bug and in the morning often felt that heavy drape of the guts that made me run to the biffy, Caligula's old roost.†   (source)
  • I went home determined that we would not back down but fly Caligula and catch those giant iguanas, just like that other American couple.†   (source)
  • " We came to the same place, the iguanas' haunt, and I took a higher position than the last time, to give Caligula a better view of that stony slope.†   (source)
  • Entering the patio, we heard cries from the cook, who ran into the kitchen with her baby because Caligula was going back and forth on the shed roof.†   (source)
  • As I was deafened from faintness or from blood or hair or soil in my ears, I didn't hear but rather saw how she cursed Caligula.†   (source)
  • Caligula's washout and my being such a chump as to spur poor Bizcocho from the top of a bluff terribly disappointed her.†   (source)
  • I had tried to put Caligula over and that was enough of a trial; I had stretched myself as far as I could and had no more stretch.†   (source)
  • Caligula saw him and made his pitch.†   (source)
  • We didn't stop over in Monterrey but only got a few supplies--more raw meat for Caligula than anything else.†   (source)
  • We got up to the plateau, from which the town lay half covered in a picturesque hole, and there practiced with Caligula to get him used to a take-off while in motion.†   (source)
  • So I had to bear Caligula's gaze.†   (source)
  • When Caligula soared under this sky I sometimes wondered what connection he made with this element of nearly too great strength that was dammed back of the old spouts of craters.†   (source)
  • However, Thea woke happy, and she was busy right away giving Caligula his pacifier of morning meat, while I set out through the damp rooms to find bread and coffee.†   (source)
  • At the gate of the villa I got the traps ready, the cages and the pole, and when Jacinto returned we were there with Caligula, who, as usual, looked great, dangerous.†   (source)
  • Sometimes I thought that if to earn money was the reason for this goofy undertaking I should devote myself to the money question and how to make a killing; then I'd set Caligula free or give him away.†   (source)
  • For Caligula we first tried a burro, but though he stood hooded on the saddle and was well secured, the burro was bowed with terror and its head bristled.†   (source)
  • There were two patios, one with a fountain and barrel-shaped oxhide chairs; the other was by the kitchen, a sort of old stable yard, and here we continued Caligula's training.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless I hated to see the little lizards hit and squirt blood, and their tiny fine innards of painted delicacy come out under Caligula's talons while he glared and opened his beak.†   (source)
  • It was too wet to fly Caligula.†   (source)
  • I saw the two sharp fierce faces, and as Caligula put his foot on the monster it opened its angular mouth with strange snake rage and struck the eagle in the neck.†   (source)
  • And also I couldn't stay in bed while Caligula was being neglected, if only for the reason that he'd become dangerous through hunger, let alone the humane side of it.†   (source)
  • I struck the hood and then slipped the swivel--I had to drop the reins to do this and grip with my knees--and Caligula put forward his breast with a clap of the huge wings and started to take the air.†   (source)
  • But it did affect Caligula to be surrounded by these women; he ate and then at one moment he seemed to lean his head toward Thea and act like a cat who wants to wipe and wreathe and ply himself at a woman's legs.†   (source)
  • Caligula was in his closet.†   (source)
  • " "And Caligula would eat me.†   (source)
  • So I laid off the topic, and we used the spare time to take color pictures of Caligula on my arm in front of the cathedral; until mounted officers who appeared to gallop out of the gates of a ministry drove us off the plaza.†   (source)
  • Down the iguana made his pure leap too, crashed, ran, doubled at Caligula's stoop, slithered from the snatch of the talons, rolled, fought over his belly from the shadow that haunted him so fast, flew again.†   (source)
  • And furthermore Caligula had to become accustomed to a horse or burro; these giant lizards were in almost inaccessible parts of the mountain, far from roads, and we couldn't lug Caligula the whole long difficult way.†   (source)
  • I took a lurch, Bizcocho started downslope on the loose rocks, Caligula gripped me; I slipped the drawstring and took off the hood, drew the swivel, and he went up, forward in the deep air of the mountainside, once again up toward the high vibrations of blue.†   (source)
  • Caligula made a noise.†   (source)
  • In the barnyard, which gave a heave most likely of terror as Caligula in his hood was brought through; and in the bedroom where the perfumed air of the branchy mountainside washed over the white wall and on the stinks of community, as the long impulse from well out in ocean bobs the rotten oranges and other trash at the wharf-side; and the Indian woman who turned down the counterpane of the iron bedstead which was in a form of fantasy, a white spider monkey.†   (source)
  • Caligula!†   (source)
  • I had read Goldsmith's History of Rome, and had formed my opinion of Nero, Caligula, &c.†   (source)
  • Caligula made a horse a consul; Charles II. made a knight of a sirloin.†   (source)
  • Rome was doubtless a very amusing place in the days of Caligula, but it has sadly fallen off since.†   (source)
  • The Ciceronian period, which hardly sufficed for Verres, would be blunted on Caligula.†   (source)
  • 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….†   (source)
  • …with laurel, lest lightning might strike him, he had sat, as Tiberius, in a garden at Capri, reading the shameful books of Elephantis, while dwarfs and peacocks strutted round him, and the flute-player mocked the swinger of the censer; and, as Caligula, had caroused with the green-shirted jockeys in their stables and supped in an ivory manger with a jewel-frontleted horse; and, as Domitian, had wandered through a corridor lined with marble mirrors, looking round with haggard eyes for…†   (source)
  • 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)
  • Thus a Trajan and an Antoninus, a Nero and a Caligula, have all met with the belief of posterity; and no one doubts but that men so very good, and so very bad, were once the masters of mankind.†   (source)
  • For afterwards the Emperors of Rome received the same honor; as we read of Caligula, that at his reception to the Empire, he was carried from Misenum to Rome, in the midst of a throng of People, the wayes beset with Altars, and Beasts for Sacrifice, and burning Torches: And of Caracalla that was received into Alexandria with Incense, and with casting of Flowers, and Dadouchiais, that is, with Torches; for Dadochoi were they that amongst the Greeks carried Torches lighted in the…†   (source)
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