Tiberiusin a sentence
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In ancient Rome, at the time of Emperor Tiberius, there lived a good man who had two sons.
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Tiberius = second Roman Emperor (42 BC to AD 37)
- Then TIBERIUS, the name of a ferret he'd once owned.† (source)
- Wizengamot elders Griselda Marchbanks and Tiberius Ogden have resigned in protest at the introduction of the post of Inquisitor to Hogwarts.† (source)
- "Tiberius," Mark said.† (source)
- The town Tiberias, in modern Israel was named in Tiberius's honor by Herod.
- But when the reign of Tiberius ended, his poems were forgotten.† (source)
- I heard, from my dear friend Tiberius Ogden, that you can produce a Patronus?† (source)
- It had been Tiberius's for as long as Emma could remember.† (source)
- Mark was demanding as he strode over to Tiberius.† (source)
- Tiberius, with his analytical mind, tended to win most games.† (source)
- The blade whipped past Tiberius and sank into Andrew Blackthorn's chest.† (source)
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- Hands came up and caught at the back of Tiberius's shirt, pulling him away from Julian.† (source)
- Behind him, through the open door, she could glimpse them: Tavvy and Dru, Livia and Tiberius.† (source)
- My family—my sister Helen, and Tiberius and Livia, and Drusilla and Tavvy.† (source)
- Tiberius was standing in the door, his mop of unruly black curls tumbling into his eyes.† (source)
- "Now, you, Cormac," said Slughorn, "I happen to know you see a lot of your Uncle Tiberius, because he has a rather splendid picture of the two of you hunting nogtails in, I think, Norfolk?"† (source)
- "Come here, my boy, my Tiberius ..." Ty took another step forward, and Julian pulled the shortsword from his belt and threw it.† (source)
- We split up—Emma went to get Drusilla and Octavian, and I went to the office with Livia and Tiberius to call the Clave.† (source)
- His blood smeared across the marble floor as Tiberius gave a cry, whirling to lash out at his brother, pounding his fists against Julian's chest.† (source)
- Jules handed Livvy a dagger and offered the other one to Tiberius, who stared at it as if it were an alien thing.† (source)
- She'd been the one to give Tiberius his nickname when he was born, because at eighteen months old she hadn't been able to say "Tiberius" and had called him "Ty-Ty" instead.† (source)
- Dru and Livvy were cried out; Tiberius had accepted the news of Helen's departure with wide-eyed confusion, as if he didn't know what was happening or how he was expected to respond.† (source)
- "Don't be stupid," said Tiberius.† (source)
- Tiberius was as dark as Mark was fair, the only one of the Blackthorns—other than Mark and Helen, who didn't quite count, because of their Downworlder blood—not to have the brown hair and blue-green eyes that were the family traits.† (source)
- Tiberius had spent the day in a vicious tantrum, kicking the bars of the baby's crib when he was told he couldn't leave the house, shrieking for Mark when Julian tried to calm him down, and finally smashing his fist through a glass jewelry box.† (source)
- Tiberius, stop it right now.† (source)
- Moreover, Warren Hastings had been impeached and tried; Pope Sixtus the Fifth had come and gone; Dalmatia had been subdued by Tiberius; Belisarius had been blinded by Justinian; the wedding and funeral ceremonies of Wilhelmina Charlotte Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach and King George the Second had been solemnized, while those of Berengaria of Navarre to King Richard the First were hardly more than a distant memory; Diocletian, Charles the Fifth, and Victor Amadeus of Sardinia† (source)
- And gradually this man, with whom she had taken up while still a high-school girl, built up to be about like Jupiter-Ammon, with an eye like that new telescope out at the Mount Palomar observatory, about as wicked as Tiberius, a czar and mastermind.† (source)
- He has a license to trade signed by Tiberius himself.† (source)
- In the seventh chapter he tells how, crowned 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† (source)
- and philosophy have eternal duties, which are, at the same time, simple duties; to combat Caiphas the High-priest, Draco the Lawgiver, Trimalcion the Legislator, Tiberius the Emperor; this is clear, direct, and limpid, and offers no obscurity.† (source)
- It is certain, that, at that moment, no abuse of power, no violence, not one of the abominations of the worst tyrants, no action of Busiris, of Tiberius, or of Henry VIII.† (source)
- Bonaparte had become an almost fabulous monster, and in order to paint him to the imagination of the people, which, as we lately pointed out, resembles the imagination of children, the party of 1814 made him appear under all sorts of terrifying masks in succession, from that which is terrible though it remains grandiose to that which is terrible and becomes grotesque, from Tiberius to the bugaboo.† (source)
- For whereas the stile of the antient Roman Common-wealth, was, The Senate, and People of Rome; neither Senate, nor People pretended to the whole Power; which first caused the seditions, of Tiberius Gracchus, Caius Gracchus, Lucius Saturnius, and others; and afterwards the warres between the Senate and the People, under Marius and Sylla; and again under Pompey and Caesar, to the Extinction of their Democraty, and the setting up of Monarchy.† (source)
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