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  • Nero played a lyre.†   (source)
  • With bitter exasperation, Washington exclaimed: "I would rather be in my grave than in the Presidency"; and to Jefferson he wrote: I am accused of being the enemy of America, and subject to the influence of a foreign country ....and every act of my administration is tortured, in such exaggerated and indecent terms as could scarcely be applied to Nero, to a notorious defaulter, or even to a common pickpocket.†   (source)
  • Chiron told me about Nero and this weird holding company of his.†   (source)
  • I did not have the pleasure of tearing Nero's head off.†   (source)
  • If memory serves, Nero's Colossus was more than twice that.†   (source)
  • Apollo's talking about the big replica of Nero that stood outside the amphitheater in Rome, right?†   (source)
  • Nero reeled, his hand raised as if to block an intense light.†   (source)
  • Nero was that relative you never wanted to invite to Lupercalia dinner.†   (source)
  • Typical of Nero to keep several forms of fire-making close at hand.†   (source)
  • I could not fully grasp this before Nero spread his arms.†   (source)
  • Nero made a snide little barking sound in the back of his nose.†   (source)
  • I could not outtalk an orator like Nero.†   (source)
  • I just hoped I'd have enough time to rip off Nero's head and stuff it down his mauve suit.†   (source)
  • Nero hadn't changed much in one thousand nine hundred and some-odd years.†   (source)
  • If she tells Nero, he will know our plans as well.†   (source)
  • I had to make her realize how evil Nero was.†   (source)
  • Talking seemed better than my other options, like helping Nero or dying.†   (source)
  • He's the emperor who—" "Don't say it," Nero warned.†   (source)
  • I did not understand everything Meg had been through, or what she was feeling now, but I knew Nero.†   (source)
  • Nero ...you didn't say anything about making them into torches.†   (source)
  • Looking up at that regal profile, I did not see Nero.†   (source)
  • Only the line of its nose and its ghastly neck beard suggested Nero's trademark ugliness.†   (source)
  • I was now fully convinced of Nero's insanity.†   (source)
  • Nero's pride was no more than a reflection of mine.†   (source)
  • I realized the karpos was not here to protect us from Nero.†   (source)
  • I found it just like Nero to go claiming major metropolitan areas that clearly belonged to me.†   (source)
  • Then again, Nero had always had expensive, impractical tastes.†   (source)
  • Nero had been the last of the Julian line.†   (source)
  • While we're standing here, Nero is going to try to destroy Camp Half-Blood.†   (source)
  • But she was someone I didn't know at all: stepdaughter to the immortal crazy Nero.†   (source)
  • I could not imagine her as Imperial anything—definitely not as a part of Nero's entourage.†   (source)
  • Nero's tone had frayed like a weathered rope.†   (source)
  • But then Nero or Peaches or the Germani would have just killed me.†   (source)
  • The blast was so powerful, it knocked Nero and his guards off their feet.†   (source)
  • Nero took the same tone when he referred to himself as the Beast.†   (source)
  • I understand it became famous as the Colossus of Nero!†   (source)
  • Then Nero stood, triumphantly holding a box of matches.†   (source)
  • One of Nero's guards said something in his ear.†   (source)
  • If I blamed her for the way Nero had twisted her emotions, I was no better than the Beast.†   (source)
  • The trees screamed louder than ever, but Nero rose to his knees.†   (source)
  • I wanted to follow, but I couldn't leave Nero and his guards alone with six hostages.†   (source)
  • "If we do this," I told Meg, "Nero will destroy the grove."†   (source)
  • "They will he released," Nero promised, "as long as Apollo cooperates."†   (source)
  • Nero had always loved threats and grandiose statements.†   (source)
  • "At least Nero could play music," Grover muttered.†   (source)
  • The whole town planning a parade," said Nero.†   (source)
  • Our enemy is Emperor Nero.†   (source)
  • But I could not stop thinking of the dryads raising their arms to the flames in the woods, and about Nero, and Meg.†   (source)
  • We know Nero is holed up in New York, so we're guessing this next Oracle is in the second dude's territory, maybe in the middle third of the U.S.†   (source)
  • I pictured the Brady Bunch in purple togas, lined up on the family staircase with Nero at the bottom in Alice's maid uniform.†   (source)
  • "You're my daughter," Nero corrected.†   (source)
  • Nero's voice turned as hard as bronze.†   (source)
  • Nero barely had time to blink before Peaches ripped the box from his hand and jumped back to Meg's side.†   (source)
  • What did Nero do—order it online ?†   (source)
  • For a brief moment, I felt like Nero.†   (source)
  • Nero raised his hand for restraint.†   (source)
  • Nero got a dreamy look on his face.†   (source)
  • I was no less of a monster than Nero.†   (source)
  • Against Nero and his seven-foot-tall bodyguards, I had a Brazilian handkerchief, a packet of ambrosia, and some brass wind chimes.†   (source)
  • Meg turned toward Nero, her eyes wide.†   (source)
  • As I recounted the story, Nero's words kept replaying in my mind: My wrecking crew will be here any minute.†   (source)
  • Its nostrils were sealed with bronze ...I supposed because Nero hadn't wanted his detractors trying to shoot arrows into his imperial noggin.†   (source)
  • Meg had been trained to regard her kindly stepfather Nero and the terrifying Beast as two separate people.†   (source)
  • The Colossus was supposed to be Nero as the sun god, but the emperor had wisely made the face resemble mine more closely than his.†   (source)
  • Facing Nero, I remembered all the tawdry details of his rule—the extravagance and cruelty that had made him so embarrassing to me, his forefather.†   (source)
  • He hissed at me, Nero, and the Germani.†   (source)
  • Nero clasped his hands as if in prayer.†   (source)
  • You can't possibly believe in Nero now.†   (source)
  • He landed on Nero's arm, chomped the lit match from the emperor's hand, then landed a few feet away, wiping his tongue and crying, "Hat!†   (source)
  • I saw now that their fused trunks were marred from Nero's previous efforts—chain-saw scars, burn marks, bites from ax blades, even some bullet holes.†   (source)
  • The scene might have been funny except that the Germani were now back on their feet, five demigods and a geyser spirit were still tied to highly flammable posts, and Nero still had a box of matches.†   (source)
  • "After the Great Fire," I told her, "instead of rebuilding the houses on Palatine Hill, Nero leveled the neighborhood and built a new palace—the Domus Aurea."†   (source)
  • "I would be careful," Nero warned.†   (source)
  • Nero's plan became horribly clear.†   (source)
  • Nero put his hand to his chest.†   (source)
  • Looking at the damage Nero had done to him, I added a few more items to a mental list I was preparing: Ways to Torture an Emperor in the Fields of Punishment.†   (source)
  • I remembered how fearlessly she fought the myrmekes, and how she'd ordered Peaches to extinguish the match when Nero wanted to burn his hostages, despite her fear of unleashing the Beast.†   (source)
  • Nero recovered more quickly.†   (source)
  • Nero cared about me, Apollo.†   (source)
  • Wh-what do you want, Nero?†   (source)
  • I want to relate what should have happened: how I leaped forward shouting, "N00000!" and spun like an acrobat, knocking aside the lit match, then twisted in a series of blazing-fast Shaolin moves, cracking Nero's head and taking out his bodyguards before they could recover.†   (source)
  • Meg was Nero's stepdaughter.†   (source)
  • She ...she went after Nero.†   (source)
  • Nero laughed in exasperation.†   (source)
  • "Ah, sorry," Nero corrected.†   (source)
  • This is Nero.†   (source)
  • Nero said.†   (source)
  • Nero rolled his eyes.†   (source)
  • "Indeed," Nero agreed.†   (source)
  • I faced Nero.†   (source)
  • Nero chuckled.†   (source)
  • Nero waved dismissively.†   (source)
  • Nero is my stepfather.†   (source)
  • Nero smiled.†   (source)
  • I let Nero go.†   (source)
  • "Nero," I said.†   (source)
  • Nero's eyes gleamed.†   (source)
  • Nero snarled.†   (source)
  • Nero puffed up his chest.†   (source)
  • Nero sighed.†   (source)
  • "But—" Nero snorted.†   (source)
  • Nero shrugged.†   (source)
  • Nero, what have you done?†   (source)
  • Nero grinned.†   (source)
  • Meg ...Nero is the Beast.†   (source)
  • She turned to Nero.†   (source)
  • Nero, you wouldn't—†   (source)
  • "Stop," Nero said.†   (source)
  • Nero will do.†   (source)
  • V.Then you say Nero ...†   (source)
  • "Come now," Nero said.†   (source)
  • Nero clapped politely.†   (source)
  • Nero's frown hardened.†   (source)
  • Nero grinned at me.†   (source)
  • Nero arched his eyebrows.†   (source)
  • Nero is good to me.†   (source)
  • "Emperor Nero," I said.†   (source)
  • Nero ...Peaches is right.†   (source)
  • Nero shrugged.†   (source)
  • The nuns at St. Agnes taught us that Diocletian was a huge villain, right along with Nero and Caligula.†   (source)
  • Porter was driving, with Empire State in the middle and Railroad Tommy on the far side, and in the back seat was Hospital Tommy and a man named Nero.†   (source)
  • And I'm the Emperor Nero!†   (source)
  • My dear Mallinson, if the man were Nero it wouldn't have to matter to us for the time being!†   (source)
  • Nero was here beside him, and this the Roman amphitheatre.†   (source)
  • Pressing on the pedals in his Mexican shoes, he made you think of Nero acting in a tragedy.†   (source)
  • Short of brushing the throat of a rival or hindrance with a poison feather at the dinner table, of course, as Nero had done.†   (source)
  • And what comic spirit he put into his acting — this child, whose young manhood was to be cut short by a ruler far worse than Nero.†   (source)
  • Did he remember days in the seminary, the kindly rebukes of his elders, the moulding discipline, days, too, of frivolity when he acted Nero before the old bishop?†   (source)
  • One year his class acted a little play before the bishop, based on the persecution of the early Christians, and no one was more amused than Juan when he was chosen to play the part of Nero.†   (source)
  • Perhaps he remembered that occasion in his boyhood when he acted Nero before the good old bishop, but this time he insisted on taking the comic part of a Roman fishmonger...' 'I don't believe a word of it,' the boy said, with sullen fury, 'not a word of it.'†   (source)
  • —the burning of Rome in Nero's time, for instance?†   (source)
  • Nero was a cruel tyranny who would torture his poor subjects by playing the fiddle to them.†   (source)
  • I had read Goldsmith's History of Rome, and had formed my opinion of Nero, Caligula, &c.†   (source)
  • Nero and Commodus, it will be remembered, devoted themselves to the chariot.†   (source)
  • I am like Nero—cupitor impossibilium; and that is what is amusing you at this moment.†   (source)
  • Brutus was in love with the one, Nero with the other.†   (source)
  • This Strongylion left but two statues which placed Nero and Brutus in accord.†   (source)
  • Where, the huge velarium that Nero had stretched across the Colosseum at Rome, that Titan sail of purple on which was represented the starry sky, and Apollo driving a chariot drawn by white gilt-reined steeds?†   (source)
  • and sick with that ennui, that terrible taedium vitae, that comes on those to whom life denies nothing; and had peered through a clear emerald at the red shambles of the Circus, and then, in a litter of pearl and purple drawn by silver-shod mules, been carried through the Street of Pomegranates to a House of Gold, and heard men cry on Nero Caesar as he passed by; and, as Elagabalus, had painted his face with colours, and plied the distaff among the women, and brought the Moon from Carthage, and given her in mystic marriage to the Sun.†   (source)
  • I know not who has recently discovered that Tacitus was a declaimer, that Nero was a victim, and that pity is decidedly due to "that poor Holofernes."†   (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)
  • He sent his brother home the Swamp Town Gazette, in which the new Governor was praised with immense enthusiasm; whereas the Swamp Town Sentinel, whose wife was not asked to Government House, declared that his Excellency was a tyrant, compared to whom Nero was an enlightened philanthropist.†   (source)
  • Gentlemen of the green-baize road who could discourse from personal experience of foreign galleys and home treadmills; spies of strong governments that eternally quake with weakness and miserable fear, broken traitors, cowards, bullies, gamesters, shufflers, swindlers, and false witnesses; some not unmarked by the branding-iron beneath their dirty braid; all with more cruelty in them than was in Nero, and more crime than is in Newgate.†   (source)
  • In the tenth year of Nero's reign, he gave up the business so long centred in the warehouse at Antioch.†   (source)
  • Albert was used to the count's manner of proceeding; he knew that, like Nero, he was in search of the impossible, and nothing astonished him, but wishing to judge with his own eyes how far the count's orders had been executed, he accompanied him to the door of the house.†   (source)
  • The Romans, even this Nero, hold two things sacred—I know of no others they so hold—they are the ashes of the dead and all places of burial.†   (source)
  • Nero was a titanic lighterman.†   (source)
  • "Oh, why is not the world a wilderness?" she exclaimed, throwing herself into the arms of Mademoiselle d'Armilly, her eyes sparkling with the same kind of rage which made Nero wish that the Roman world had but one neck, that he might sever it at a single blow.†   (source)
  • The ship spoken of had arrived only the day before, bringing intelligence of the persecution of Christians begun by Nero in Rome, and the party on the terrace were talking of the news when Malluch, who was still in their service, approached and delivered a package to Ben-Hur.†   (source)
  • Why should we not spend the last three hours remaining to us of life, like those ancient Romans, who when condemned by Nero, their emperor and heir, sat down at a table covered with flowers, and gently glided into death, amid the perfume of heliotropes and roses?†   (source)
  • This statue was from the hand of the Greek sculptor Strongylion, who also carved that figure of an Amazon known as the Beautiful Leg, Eucnemos, which Nero carried with him in his travels.†   (source)
  • La Fontaine perhaps; magnificent egoists of the infinite, tranquil spectators of sorrow, who do not behold Nero if the weather be fair, for whom the sun conceals the funeral pile, who would look on at an execution by the guillotine in the search for an effect of light, who hear neither the cry nor the sob, nor the death rattle, nor the alarm peal, for whom everything is well, since there is a month of May, who, so long as there are clouds of purple and gold above their heads, declare themselves content, and who are determined to be happy until the radiance of the stars and the songs of the birds are exhausted.†   (source)
  • She loved Nero.†   (source)
  • And to them fell King Rience of North Wales, the which and Nero that was a mighty man of men.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER X. How King Arthur had a battle against Nero and King Lot of Orkney, and how King Lot was deceived by Merlin, and how twelve kings were slain.†   (source)
  • In the meanwhile came one to King Lot, and told him while he tarried there Nero was destroyed and slain with all his people.†   (source)
  • Then Nero had the vanguard with the most part of his people, and Merlin came to King Lot of the Isle of Orkney, and held him with a tale of prophecy, till Nero and his people were destroyed.†   (source)
  • THEN King Arthur made ready his host in ten battles and Nero was ready in the field afore the Castle Terrabil with a great host, and he had ten battles, with many more people than Arthur had.†   (source)
  • But, sir, are ye purveyed, said Merlin, for to-morn the host of Nero, King Rience's brother, will set on you or noon with a great host, and therefore make you ready, for I will depart from you.†   (source)
  • Also there were slain at that battle twelve kings on the side of King Lot with Nero, and all were buried in the Church of Saint Stephen's in Camelot, and the remnant of knights and of others were buried in a great rock.†   (source)
  • Frateretto calls me; and tells me Nero is an angler in the lake of darkness.†   (source)
  • And to them fell King Rience of North Wales, the which and Nero that was a mighty man of men.†   (source)
  • Painted the slaughter was of Julius<50>,
    Of cruel Nero, and Antonius:
    Although at that time they were yet unborn,
    Yet was their death depainted there beforn,
    By menacing of Mars, right by figure,
    So was it showed in that portraiture,
    As is depainted in the stars above,
    Who shall be slain, or elles dead for love.†   (source)
  • Manchegan Nero, look not down From thy Tarpeian Rock Upon this burning heart, nor add The fuel of thy wrath.†   (source)
  • Thus Nature gives us (let it check our pride)
    The virtue nearest to our vice allied:
    Reason the bias turns to good from ill
    And Nero reigns a Titus, if he will.†   (source)
  • But to this he hath replyed, that the Christians of old, deposed not Nero, nor Diocletian, nor Julian, nor Valens an Arrian, for this cause onely, that they wanted Temporall forces.†   (source)
  • You know how perished Croesus, Astyages, Darius, Dionysius of Syracuse, Pyrrhus, Perseus, Hannibal, Jugurtha, Ariovistus, Caesar, Pompey, Nero, Otho, Vitellius, Domitian, Richard II.†   (source)
  • If when one of Plautus' comedies is upon the stage, and a company of servants are acting their parts, you should come out in the garb of a philosopher, and repeat, out of Octavia, a discourse of Seneca's to Nero, would it not be better for you to say nothing than by mixing things of such different natures to make an impertinent tragi-comedy?†   (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)
  • — O heart, lose not thy nature; let not ever The soul of Nero enter this firm bosom: Let me be cruel, not unnatural; I will speak daggers to her, but use none; My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites,— How in my words somever she be shent, To give them seals never, my soul, consent!†   (source)
  • But the instant Ambrosio saw her he addressed her, with manifest indignation: "Art thou come, by chance, cruel basilisk of these mountains, to see if in thy presence blood will flow from the wounds of this wretched being thy cruelty has robbed of life; or is it to exult over the cruel work of thy humours that thou art come; or like another pitiless Nero to look down from that height upon the ruin of his Rome in embers; or in thy arrogance to trample on this ill-fated corpse, as the ungrateful daughter trampled on her father Tarquin's?†   (source)
  • Should the best parts of the story of M. Antoninus be ascribed to Nero, or should the worst incidents of Nero's life be imputed to Antoninus, what would be more shocking to belief than either instance?†   (source)
  • Or if the Apostles wanted Temporall forces to depose Nero, was it therefore necessary for them in their Epistles to the new made Christians, to teach them, (as they did) to obey the Powers constituted over them, (whereof Nero in that time was one,) and that they ought to obey them, not for fear of their wrath, but for conscience sake?†   (source)
  • CHAPTER X. How King Arthur had a battle against Nero and King Lot of Orkney, and how King Lot was deceived by Merlin, and how twelve kings were slain.†   (source)
  • Now fell it so, that Fortune list no longer
    The highe pride of Nero to cherice;* *cherish
    For though he were strong, yet was she stronger.†   (source)
  • In the meanwhile came one to King Lot, and told him while he tarried there Nero was destroyed and slain with all his people.†   (source)
  • if the man that murdered Mr Derby was now present!" manifesting in this a more seared and callous conscience than even Nero himself; of whom we are told by Suetonius, "that the consciousness of his guilt, after the death of his mother, became immediately intolerable, and so continued; nor could all the congratulations of the soldiers, of the senate, and the people, allay the horrors of his conscience."†   (source)
  • This Nero had eke of a custumance* *habit
    In youth against his master for to rise;* *stand in his presence
    Which afterward he thought a great grievance;
    Therefore he made him dien in this wise.†   (source)
  • But, sir, are ye purveyed, said Merlin, for to-morn the host of Nero, King Rience's brother, will set on you or noon with a great host, and therefore make you ready, for I will depart from you.†   (source)
  • right so cried ye,
    As, when that Nero burned the city
    Of Rome, cried the senatores' wives,
    For that their husbands losten all their lives;
    Withoute guilt this Nero hath them slain.†   (source)
  • THEN King Arthur made ready his host in ten battles and Nero was ready in the field afore the Castle Terrabil with a great host, and he had ten battles, with many more people than Arthur had.†   (source)
  • But natheless this Seneca the wise
    Chose in a bath to die in this mannere,
    Rather than have another tormentise;* *torture
    And thus hath Nero slain his master dear.†   (source)
  • Then Nero had the vanguard with the most part of his people, and Merlin came to King Lot of the Isle of Orkney, and held him with a tale of prophecy, till Nero and his people were destroyed.†   (source)
  • * *be let loose
    This Seneca, of which that I devise,* *tell
    Because Nero had of him suche dread,
    For he from vices would him aye chastise
    Discreetly, as by word, and not by deed;
    "Sir," he would say, "an emperor must need
    Be virtuous, and hate tyranny."†   (source)
  • * * to make her living*
    Although that NERO were so vicious
    As any fiend that lies full low adown,
    Yet he, as telleth us Suetonius,<17>
    This wide world had in subjectioun,
    Both East and West, South and Septentrioun.†   (source)
  • Also there were slain at that battle twelve kings on the side of King Lot with Nero, and all were buried in the Church of Saint Stephen's in Camelot, and the remnant of knights and of others were buried in a great rock.†   (source)
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