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last Pharaoh of ancient Egypt; beautiful and charismatic queen; mistress of Julius Caesar and later of Mark Antony; killed herself to avoid capture by Octavian (69-30 BC)- Philosopher Blaise Pascal wrote that had Cleopatra been less beautiful, the whole world would have changed.
- You left out marrying Cleopatra.Robert A. Heinlein -- Starship Troopers
- Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra dramatic?Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed
- Cleopatra married her brother.Cassandra Clare -- City of Lost Souls
- What does your Shakespeare say of Cleopatra?James Hilton -- Lost Horizon
- Sally, who taught you to paint your eyes like Cleopatra?Sandra Cisneros -- The House on Mango Street
- She lays close to the Endymion, between her and the Cleopatra, just to the eastward of the sheer hulk.Jane Austen -- Mansfield Park
- The detractors asserted that the movie was an example of Western propaganda that sought toerase the fact that Cleopatra was an African woman.Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom
- Who suggested that Cleopatra smuggle herself in a carpet?Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
- Here's the fool, here's the villain, here in a car comes Cleopatra, burning on her barge.Virginia Woolf -- The Waves
- Antony and Cleopatra WE FOUND Thea's house ready.Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
- Professor Nolan introduced Deino, saying that she'd finished an amazing eleventh overall, and then Deino began Cleopatra's death scene monologue.P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast -- Betrayed
- We grow a fruit here called the Cleopatra tangerine, and we sell it to citrus packers and juice companies.Edward Bloor -- Tangerine
- Her bangs stood out from her forehead in a Cleopatra look.Jill McCorkle -- Ferris Beach
- "Cleopatra," Conseil shot back.Jules Verne -- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
- Felicity straightens like Cleopatra's Needle.Libba Bray -- A Great and Terrible Beauty
- Just get her here, in Cleopatra's carpet, if you have to!Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
- That boy's business of the intoxication of language—Antony and Cleopatra—had shrivelled utterly.Virginia Woolf -- Mrs. Dalloway
- What was Shakespeare's state of mind, for instance, when he wrote LEAR and ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA?Virginia Woolf -- A Room of One's Own
- I should not be surprised to see Cleopatra walking among us.Libba Bray -- Sweet Far Thing
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