In Greece the old oracles were devoted to the Mother Goddess.

This mythic element says that the oracles at the oasis of Siwa in Libya and of Dodona in Epirus were equally old, but similarly transmitted by Phoenician culture, and that the seeresses — Herodotus does not say " sibyls " — were women.

He is said to have prepared an edition of the Homeric poems, and was an industrious collector, as well as a forger of old oracles and poems.

Boeotia and Phokis the remotest may have joined during or after the " First Sacred War ", which led to the defeat of the old priesthood and to a new control of the prosperity of the oracle at Delphi.

Lacking the pioneer spirit necessary to write of a new economy, these writers seem to be contenting themselves with an old one that is now as defunct as Confederate money.

After the spate of female vocalists we have been having, all of whom took Sarah as a point of departure and then tried to see what they could do that might make her seem old hat, it seemed that all that has happened is to make the real thing seem better than ever.

Maggie couldn't seem to get her strength back or catch up with herself with all she had to do: there was the big basket of clothes to be coaxed through the rackety old washer and lugged out and lugged back ; ;

He didn't look like what I thought of as an old man, and his lively and erudite speech made him seem even younger.

Though the only accounts of his lectures seem to show a sort of eccentric style and approach, he was said to have been good friends with many other masters at the school in Paris, and taught there, as well as some time in southern France, into his old age.

The oldest Australian Aboriginal boomerangs are ten thousand years old, but older hunting sticks have been discovered in Europe, where they seem to have formed part of the stone age arsenal of weapons.

As the latter they seem to be old objects.

The streets of Boston, Massachusetts may seem as though they were not planned — a common fiction is that they evolved from old cowpaths — but in the 17th century they avoided swamps and marshes and followed shorelines before the original peninsula comprising the city was expanded with landfill in the 19th century.

They had few qualms about the use of puns – old, strained or inventive – and included some jokes and catchphrases that would seem politically incorrect by the mid 1990s.

In 1780, Serra wrote: " that spiritual fathers should punish their sons, the Indians, with blows appears to be as old as the conquest of the Americas ; so general in fact that the saints do not seem to be any exception to the rule.

The bulk of the letters consist of correspondence with Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, in which the character of Fronto's pupils appears in a very favourable light, especially in the affection they both seem to have retained for their old master There are also letters to friends, chiefly letters of recommendation, but including one ( Ad amicos 1.

::" I took the title from a passage in Paradise Lost where Adam says to Eve that their expulsion from Paradise " will prove no sudden but a slow pac ’ d evil ,/ A Long Day ’ s Dying to augment our pain ," and with the exception of the old lady Maroo, what all the characters seem to be dying of is loneliness, emptiness, sterility, and such preoccupation with themselves and their own problems that they are unable to communicate with each other about anything that really matters to them very much.

The Kerretes seem to have kept their old language until very late, probably as late as the 8th or 9th century.

Done wrong, they seem like tired replays of old chase cliches.

He and his nephews seem to have secured a number of castles outside their own dioceses, and the old bishop behaved as if he were an equal of the King.

She remained a Catholic her entire life, and it was painful for her to make clothes and curtains of the textiles the king confiscated from old Catholic convents, but it does not seem that she ever used any influence to promote her own beliefs in politics, in religion or otherwise.

His comment on the first page even illustrates the social networks in the virtual society: " My seven year old daughter knows that her father congregates with a family of invisible friends who seem to gather in his computer.

As such, in this political system, as in the old, law and justice seem to have little relevance.

At the height of the show's popularity, Life wrote: " For millions of Americans, listening to The Goldbergs ... has been a happy ritual akin to slipping on a pair of comfortable old shoes that never seem to wear out ".

The borders of the Biscayan dialect of Basque seem to be those of the Caristian territory, with an exception of the areas that have lost the old language.

In his essay " In the End, a Beginning: The Montreal Story Tellers ", critic Keith Garebian writes: " Raymond Fraser's booming Maritime vigour and directness seem, with subtle undertows of psychological configuration, like a roaring tide battering the literary shore ... Fraser's narrative ancestors are not only the old salts of every Maritime tavern or watering-hole, but also the more commemorated figures of Mark Twain and Hugh Garner.

No time or dates were mentioned as if to make the cases seem recent and contemporary when in fact some cases were at least over 15-20 years old.

The voices of the graveyard ghosts minus the deaf old man, the singing busts, and the mummy were re-recorded with new singers ( the mummy has since been replaced with a new voice ), and the audio tracks now seem to come from the singer when near them.

It was pitiful to see the thin ranks of warriors, old and young, wheeling and twisting their ponies frantically from side to side only to be tumbled bleeding from their saddles by the relentless slam, slam of the cruelly efficient Hawkinses.

Forced to realize that this was the end of a very short line I scanned a road marker and discovered what the end of a slightly longer line would be for the old Mexican: Moriarty, New Mexico.

or maybe she liked men old enough to be her father ; ;

To Tilghman the incident was just one of a long list of hair-raising, smash-'em-down adventures on the side of the law which started in 1872 when he was only eighteen years old, and did not end till fifty years later when he was shot dead after warning a drunk to be quiet.

Something of this can be learned from `` The Way To The Churchyard '' ( 1901 ), an anecdote about an old failure whose fit of anger at a passing cyclist causes him to die of a stroke or seizure.

Next to the old problem of the slowness of decision making, network structure seems to be paramount, and without monitoring no network has value.

In The Publick Spirit of the Whigs, it may be noted, Swift himself contemptuously dismissed Steele's reference to his friend at court: `` I suppose by the Style of old Friend, and the like, it must be some Body there of his own Level ; ;

Sherman could never be accused of sticking too long with the old.

and the young people should not even be permitted to see comedies till they are old enough to drink strong wine and sit at the public tables.

The old ideal of the independent entrepreneur is extant -- but so is the recognition that the main chance may be in a corporate bureaucracy.

Goethe believed that the Germanic spirit, with its grave strength but flagrant streaks of brutality and intolerance, should be tempered with the old sensuous wisdom and humanism of the Hellenic.

Two or three times, C. C. Burlingham came to lunch with us in Weston, that wonderful man who lived to be more than a hundred years old and whose birthplace had been my Wall Street suburb.

It was going to be hard going all the way because he hadn't written seriously for a while, except for a few stories, was tired of the old method of realismo he had so successfully used in The Sky Is Red.

If the party of Adenauer and Erhart, with 45 per cent of the vote, approaches the party of Willy Brandt, which won 36 per cent, the result would be a stiffening of the old resolve.

There's more reading and instruction to be heard on discs than ever before, although the spoken rather than the sung word is as old as Thomas Alva Edison's first experiment in recorded sound.

The article also said that a person had to be 18 years old or over, and must not be going to high school to attend these classes.

How old do you have to be to remember when Americans, especially children, were encouraged to be polite??

The bank which held the mortgage on the old church declared that the interest was considerably in arrears, and the real estate people said flatly that the land across the river was being held for an eventual development for white working people who were coming in, and that none would be sold to colored folk.

I did have the decency to call up Thelma and tell her I'd met old friends and would be home late.

It should be enough to say that the practice of the state buying automobiles is at least forty years old.

the crupper under his tail seemed to be old stuff.