Neroin a sentence
Nero as in: the Roman emperor
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Nero had his mother executed.Nero = Roman Emperor notorious for his monstrous vice and fantastic luxury (37-68 AD)
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We should have had our Nero to fiddle while we burned.† (source)
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The news had spread like Nero's fire.† (source)
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In front of us stood a little church, the sort of ancient building you often find in London—a somber bit of medieval stone wedged between a Caffe Nero and a chemist's shop with neon signs offering selected hair products 3 for £1.† (source)
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Or Nero playing the harp while Rome burned?† (source)
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I wanted Daddy to give me Nero—a horse I liked.† (source)
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His head was covered with curls, he had the lips of a faun, and all he needed was a lyre and a laurel wreath to be the image of the incendiary Nero of Christian mythology.† (source)Nero = Roman Emperor notorious for his monstrous vice and fantastic luxury (37-68 AD)
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The whole town planning a parade," said Nero.† (source)
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If I had staged it intentionally, I would have beaten the record of the Emperor Nero.† (source)
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Did you know that the Emperor Nero had leeks served to him every day to deepen the sonority of his voice?† (source)
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We'll eat like Nero tonight.† (source)
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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)
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Nero played a lyre.† (source)
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Nero was here beside him, and this the Roman amphitheatre.† (source)
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Pressing on the pedals in his Mexican shoes, he made you think of Nero acting in a tragedy.† (source)
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My dear Mallinson, if the man were Nero it wouldn't have to matter to us for the time being!† (source)
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