Sample Sentences forTiberius (auto-selected)
Tiberius as in: the Roman emperor
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In ancient Rome, at the time of Emperor Tiberius, there lived a good man who had two sons. (source)Tiberius = second Roman Emperor (42 BC to AD 37)
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Then TIBERIUS, the name of a ferret he'd once owned.† (source)
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Mark was demanding as he strode over to Tiberius.† (source)
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"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)
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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;† (source)
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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)
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Dalmatia had been subdued by Tiberius;† (source)
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He has a license to trade signed by Tiberius himself.† (source)
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History 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)
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I heard, from my dear friend Tiberius Ogden, that you can produce a Patronus?† (source)
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But when the reign of Tiberius ended, his poems were forgotten.† (source)
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My family—my sister Helen, and Tiberius and Livia, and Drusilla and Tavvy.† (source)
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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)
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Wizengamot elders Griselda Marchbanks and Tiberius Ogden have resigned in protest at the introduction of the post of Inquisitor to Hogwarts.† (source)
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Tiberius, with his analytical mind, tended to win most games.† (source)
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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)
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