"Lybian" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in front advanced, The brandished sword of God before them blazed, Fierce as a comet; which with torrid heat, And vapour as the Lybian air adust Began to parch that temperate ...
— The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' • Thomas Orchard
... North Africa, so with its supposedly indigenous population. The Berber dialects extend from the Lybian desert to Senegal. Their language was probably related to Coptic, itself related to the ancient Egyptian and the non-Semitic dialects of Abyssinia and Nubia. Yet philologists have discovered what appears to be a far-off link between the Berber and Semitic languages, and the Chleuhs ...
— In Morocco • Edith Wharton
... the fierce bear, made fiercer by the smart Of the bold Lybian's mortal guided dart, Turns round upon the wound, and the tough spear Contorted o'er her breast does flying ...
— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I • Various
... after the blow from the Lybian's thong- hurled dart, turns round upon the wound, and attacking the received spear, twists it, as ...
— The Essays of Montaigne, Complete • Michel de Montaigne
... single individual in Israel who had not ninety Lybian donkeys laden with the gold and silver ...
— Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and - Kabbala • Various
... among the cups, and piercing the Lybian's arm, pinned it so firmly to the cloth, that the shaft ...
— Salammbo • Gustave Flaubert
... the strangers and natives was insensibly mingled; and from the Euphrates to the Atlantic the same nation might seem to be diffused over the sandy plains of Asia and Africa. Yet I will not deny that fifty thousand tents of pure Arabians might be transported over the Nile, and scattered through the Lybian desert: and I am not ignorant that five of the Moorish tribes still retain their barbarous idiom, with the appellation and character ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 5 • Edward Gibbon
... stooping figure with eyes glued to a telescope. The stars blinked in their many thousands down upon the silent desert. The night held neither sound nor movement. There was a cool breeze blowing across the Nile from the Lybian Sands. It nipped; and he stepped back quickly into the room again. Drawing the mosquito curtains carefully about the bed, he put the light out ...
— Four Weird Tales • Algernon Blackwood
... coils of amaranth—the perfume of which in opening the pores neutralizes the fumes of wine—the guests lay, fanned by boys, whose curly hair they used for napkins. Under the supervision of butlers the courses were served on platters so large that they covered the tables; sows' breasts with Lybian truffles; dormice baked in poppies and honey, peacock-tongues flavored with cinnamon; oysters stewed in garum—a sauce made of the intestines of fish—sea-wolves from the Baltic; sturgeons from Rhodes; fig-peckers from Samos; African snails; pale beans in pink lard; and a yellow pig ...
— Imperial Purple • Edgar Saltus
... you that in the month of June there appeared a Giant, who came from the Lybian desert... mad with rage like ants.... struck down by ...
— The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete • Leonardo Da Vinci
... how Timotheus varied lays surprize, And bid alternate passions fall and rise! While, at each change, the son of Lybian Jove Now burns with glory, and then melts with love: Now his fierce eyes with sparkling fury glow; Now sighs steal out, and tears begin to flow; Persians and Greeks like turns of nature found, And the world's victor flood subdued by sound: The power of music all our hearts allow; And what Timotheus ...
— The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) - Vol. III • Theophilus Cibber |
