Use antony in a sentence
Sentences starting with antony
- Antony had been unable to continue the conflict when parted from me. [10]
- Antony had refused to see her. [10]
- Antony had more than once expressed the desire to be buried beside her, wherever he might die, and this had occurred ere she possessed the beaker. [10]
- Antony is now struggling with Octavianus for the sovereignty of the world. [10]
- Antony had chosen it because he deemed it a fitting gift for the woman whose song had pleased him. [10]
- Antony had behaved in a manner for which no words of condemnation or regret were adequate. [10]
- Antony gave him his freedom long ago, and if your Majesty does not object to receiving a man so low in station--" "Let him come," replied Cleopatra. [10]
- Antony had honoured him with the proud title of "King of kings"; yet he was permitted neither to rule nor even to issue orders, for his mother kept him aloof from affairs of state, and he himself had no desire to hold the sceptre. [10]
- Antony had honoured him with the commission to win Herod back to his cause. [10]
- Antony had made an address, assuring the warriors that, even without soldiers, our ships would destroy the foe by their mere height and size. [10]
Sentences ending with antony
- It is she who has placed herself between us; she has won Antony. [10]
- But from the time of his approach with the Roman army and the auxiliary troops of the Ethnarch of Judea, nothing more was learned of him or of Antipater, who commanded the forces of Hyrkanus; every one talked constantly of the Roman general Antony. [10]
- Again he recalled the torments which he had endured when compelled to witness how completely she yielded to the passion which drew her to Antony. [10]
- While Charmian protested that no one save Dion had ever been heard with favour by Barine, and related many incidents of her former life, Cleopatra's thoughts were with Antony. [10]
- This was done quietly and in the same faultless order as a few days before, when a similar manoeuvre had been executed under the eyes of Mark Antony. [10]
- She, Barine, wore on her arm a gift from Antony. [10]
- Men shall praise my memory.--I follow you, Mark Antony! [10]
- For many a long year no banquet, no entertainment had given her enjoyment without Mark Antony. [10]
- This had occurred long before the commencement of the hostility which separated the heirs of Caesar and Mark Antony. [10]
- Were she here, I would grant her anything to make amends for my unjust suspicion of her and Antony. [10]
Short sentences using antony
- And Mark Antony? [10]
More example sentences with the word antony in them
- Fire and water would unite sooner than Mark Antony and cowardice! [10]
- Perhaps Mark Antony will arrive in a few hours. [10]
- The greatest deed which she expected from the energetic Julius was that he would abolish the republic, which she hated, and soar upward to tyrannize over the arrogant rulers of the world--only she would fain have seen Antony in his place. [10]
- The hapless city which dark Hades ingulfed really belonged to Antony, for in the days of its prosperity he was its founder. [10]
- It was doubtful whether those whom they expected would return that night, and the Roman soldiers who were loyal to Antony had gone with him to the war. [10]
- At his side, when all was over, she would rest in the grave, and compel the world to remember with respectful sympathy the royal lovers, Antony and Cleopatra. [10]
- On either side were niches containing statues of Antony and Cleopatra cast in dark bronze, and above the cornice were brazen figures of Love and Death, Fame and Silence, ennobling the Egyptian forms with exquisite works of Hellenic art. [10]
- The Alexandrians especially were aware that their Queen and Antony claimed and desired to be called "The new Isis" and "The new Dionysus. [10]
- After Actium, this was what Antony felt, and he quitted the society of men in order to find himself for once in good company. [10]
- The only thing was to find the right purchaser; for, if the sword of Antony had brought him so much, what would not some amateur give him for the other, far more valuable, objects. [10]
- And if Antony was faithless to the wife to whom statecraft had bound him, he kept his pledge to the other, who had an earlier, better title. [10]
- Several Asiatic princes vied with each other in the desire to honour Mark Antony by a magnificent funeral, but Octavianus had allowed Cleopatra to provide the most superb obsequies. [10]
- This was the very Proculejus whom the dying Antony had recommended to the woman he loved as worthy of her confidence. [10]
- This was a tongue of land stretched like a finger into the sea, on whose point stood a little palace which Cleopatra, incited by a chance remark of Antony, had had built there to surprise him. [10]
- It is due to these men that Mark Antony still lives and did not come to a miserable end at the hands of his own troops. [10]
- When the order to destroy the statues of Antony and Cleopatra was issued, Octavianus gave his contemporaries another proof of his disposition to be lenient, for he ordered that the numerous statues of the Queen in Alexandria and Egypt should be preserved. [10]
- Antyllus had intended to bestow the goblets; but he advised the youth to let him pay their value in money, for among them were several ancient pieces of most artistic workmanship, which Antony, the extravagant young fellow's father, might perhaps be unwilling to lose. [10]
- This had seemed to Antony unusual and noble and, in his generous manner, he had not only forgiven him, but bestowed his favour upon him. [10]
- This was my thought as I grasped the dagger Antony had given me. [10]
- In proof of this, she would present to the library of the museum the two hundred thousand volumes from Pergamus, one of the most valuable gifts Mark Antony had ever bestowed upon her, and which she had hitherto regarded merely as a loan. [10]
- I--I, Cleopatra, was the wife of Mark Antony according to the customs of this country, when you wedded him to the widow of Marcellus, who had scarcely closed his eyes. [10]
- Charmian timidly lifted the upper layer of the fruit, but the Queen said mournfully: "The wife of Antony dragged through the streets of Rome behind the victor's chariot, a spectacle for the populace and envious matrons! [10]
- And yet-and yet, the thought that I no longer possess the sword of Antony, will give me many sleepless nights. [10]
- I also trusted the spell of the goblet, which had already compelled Antony to do many things he opposed. [10]
- That Antony visited the singer, and even took his son there more than once, is known throughout the city. [10]
- While listening to the resurrection hymn of the priests of Serapis, she had asked herself if it might not be possible to give Antony, when he had been roused to fresh energy, the son of Caesar as a companion in arms. [10]
- He had found the portion of the shore from which the promontory ran densely crowded with people--from whom he learned that Antony was no longer in the palace--and the sea filled with boats. [10]
- Everything that bore the name of Egyptian was hateful or suspicious to the Roman, and it was hard to forgive this woman, born on the banks of the Nile, for having seen Julius Caesar at her feet and compelled Mark Antony to do her bidding. [10]
- He began with the most fulsome praise of Cleopatra and Antony, reminding his hearers that the Imperator was a descendant of Herakles. [10]
- He had shown the latter that Antony, in any case, was a lost man, and Egypt was in the act of dropping like a ripe fruit into the lap of Octavianus. [10]
- But on reaching the former place he learned that Gorgias had gone to remove the statues of Cleopatra and Antony from the house of Didymus, and erect them in front of the Theatre of Dionysus. [10]
- Proculejus had learned that Antony had named him to the Queen as the person most worthy of her confidence, and more keenly felt the wrong which, as the tool and obedient friend of Octavianus, he had inflicted upon the hapless woman. [10]
- Sometimes a magnificent state galley appeared, on whose deck was Antony, who inspected the hastily equipped fleet to make the newly recruited sailors one of those kindling speeches in which he was a master hard to surpass. [10]
- Now, deadly pale, she announced that Mark Antony had left his galley, followed me in a little five-oared boat, and come on board our ship. [10]
- The cup-bearers had scarcely advanced to the guests with their golden vessels when Antony turned to them, exclaiming: "Pour generously, men; perhaps to-morrow you will serve another master! [10]
- I was the Satrap whose fury you soothed away, or I was the Antony you lured from fighting Caesar. [11]
- Your wealth is said to be vast, though the foolish war which Antony, with your aid, so greatly prolonged, devoured vast sums. [10]
- But--this is my right--I will compel her to show herself to me as Antony so often saw me during the past few weeks, unaided and unimproved by the arts which we both have at command. [10]
- If he would reflect over what had happened as dispassionately as usual, he could not fail to see that Antony must be free and in a position to guide his own future, since he directed the palace in the Choma to be put in order. [10]
- What if Antony proved himself the hero of yesterday, the general he had been in days of yore? [10]
- It even seemed probable; for a man who loved her like Antony could scarcely yearn for the favour of another woman. [10]
- Her wish to possess it, however, was not gratified, and she did not ask for it again until the limitless devotion and ardent love of Antony had seemed less fervent than of yore. [10]
- True, Antony was opening her father's path to his home. [10]
- So she had opened her baggage to take out the circlet which Antony had given, and it again enclasped her arm when she entered the sick-room. [10]
- No matter, if only his brother Alexas does not rouse Antony against you. [10]
- In the eyes of the world, at least, a man who can still revel like Antony is only half vanquished. [10]
- Philostratus, the brother of the great Alexas, a friend of Mark Antony, told us so. [10]
- The generous heart of Mark Antony does not throb in Octavianus's breast, but he is not cruel, and for the very reason that cool calculation curbs ambition he will spare you. [10]
- The false report of her death, which had induced Antony to put an end to his life, had perhaps arisen from the fact that the Queen was literally in the tomb. [10]
- These latter facts may be relied on, as we get them from Mark Antony, whose position enables him to learn every item of news connected with the one subject of absorbing interest of-to-day. [5]
- He had asked Mark Antony why he fixed his hopes on miserable wood, exclaiming, 'Let the Phoenician's and Egyptians war on the water, but leave us the land where we are accustomed, with our feet firmly set upon the earth, to fight, conquer, or die! [10]
- It was not love which drew Antony after me, not love that trampled in the dust the radiant image of reckless courage, not love that constrained the demigod to follow the pitiful track of a fugitive woman. [10]
- When Mark Antony left you, he sailed with the ships which joined him for Paraetonium. [10]
- Many a joyous Io and loud Evoe to Cleopatra, the new Isis, and Antony, the new Dionysus, resounded through the air, while bearded and smooth, delicate Greek and thick Egyptian lips joined in the shout, "To the Sebasteum! [10]
- In him also, in Antony, I was permitted to witness this magnificent spectacle twenty--what do I say?-a hundred times, so long as he loved me with all the ardour of his fiery soul. [10]
- True, at this hour commerce had ceased; but many had gone to the port in search of news, or even to greet before others the first ship returning from the victorious fleet; for that Antony had defeated Octavianus in a great battle was deemed certain. [10]
- Mark Antony was his old self again. [10]
- Later, when, after his freedom had been purchased by the son of Sulla, he succeeded in attaining great influence in Rome, he still remained hostile to Mark Antony, and it had been a welcome charge to work against him in Alexandria. [10]
- When Antony flung himself from his horse, she had moved nearer to her sister, but, as the Roman continued to overlook her, her face crimsoned, she bit her scarlet lips. [10]
- Mark Antony, the hero who had braved a thousand dangers, had flung down his sword. [10]
- Here Archibius interrupted her with the remark that he remembered perfectly how, after the song, Antony had addressed her at the same time as the Queen, and Cleopatra lacked no feminine weakness. [10]
- Many things in her favour were contained in the letters from Caesar and Antony which, after her husband's death, she had read again and again during so many wakeful nights, and they had just been brought to her. [10]
- His grandfather had heard many tales of both Cleopatra and Antony from his countryman Philotas, who, during the brilliant days when they revelled in Alexandria, had lived there as a student. [10]
- On the contrary, he offers, in the name of the Queen, any compensation you yourself may fix for the piece of land which is to be honoured by the statues of the highest personages in the country--Cleopatra and Antony, hand in hand. [10]
- When Antony returns he must find all things ready. [10]
- Only one thing"--here he lowered the loud tones of his deep voice--"only one thing can save her: the murder of Antony, or an act of shameless treachery which would deliver him into Octavianus's power. [10]
- Mark Antony would have touched the heart of a stone statue by that blending of manly daring and humble devotion which no woman can resist. [10]
- But you will have her examined, and then----What may she not make of the story of Mark Antony, Barine, and the two armlets? [10]
- How could you have forgotten that you aided me to win the wager which forced Antony to gaze into the beaker before I filled it for him? [10]
- Well then, I had two thousand drachmae for a sword that belonged to Antony. [10]
- A distinguished citizen had seen Mark Antony, accompanied by several friends, dashing down the quay. [10]
- How often she had rejoiced over the certainty that this son, on whom Antony, after his victory over the Parthians, had bestowed the title of Co-Regent, would never rebel against his mother's guardianship! [10]
- Drops of perspiration had oozed from the statue of Antony in Alba. [10]
- The stone image had felt what was impending over the living Mark Antony. [10]
- A gallant deed had bound this man to Antony. [10]
- This done, he gave them a paternal benediction, the sturdy Antony sounded a most loving farewell with his trumpet, the jolly crews put up a shout of triumph, and the invincible armada swept off proudly down the bay. [4]
- But the phrase gains its greatest importance from the fact that it adorns the hymn which the poet dedicated to Octavianus and his victory over Antony and Cleopatra. [10]
- Every one was full of the joyful tidings of victory, and one shouted to another what Anaxenor, the favourite of the great Antony, who must surely know, had just recited in thrilling verse. [10]
- She had returned from the chief priest late in the evening, yet had asked for a minute description of the condition in which they found Mark Antony. [10]
- No one could foresee how Antony would greet Cleopatra herself, so he proposed that she should send Charmian--not alone, but with her clever hunch-backed maid, to whom the Imperator himself had given the name "Aisopion. [10]
- At last anguish forced even the clearest memories into oblivion: she saw nothing save the tortures of her lover; her brain, still active, revealed solely the gulf at her feet, and the tomb which yawned not only for Antony, but for herself. [10]
- The anxious woman feared the worst for her brother if Mark Antony should conquer, and yet, with her whole heart, she wished the Queen to gain the victory. [10]
- Her heart throbbed faster when she thought of the meeting with Antony, now close at hand; for Charmian had gone with the Nubian to invite him to join her again. [10]
- Perhaps Antony cannot escape from the paralyzing grasp of despair. [10]
- Which of the enemy's generals could cope with Antony on the land? [10]
- Octavianus drove alone eastward to the camp where, in the vicinity of the Hippodrome, men were surveying the ground on which the suburb of Nikopolis--city of victory--was to be built to commemorate for future generations the victory of the first Emperor over Antony and Cleopatra. [10]
- The worthy man drew back, pierced his own breast with his sword, and sank dying at his master's feet; but Antony, exclaiming that Eros's example had taught him his duty, thrust the short sword into his breast with his own hand. [10]
- Everything must be done before the return of Antony, who was daily expected. [10]
- But the grief did not last long, for Mark Antony, shouted: "Hence with melancholy! [10]
- Cleopatra, on the contrary, shrank from meeting the man who had brought so much misfortune upon Mark Antony and herself, and inflicted upon her insults which were only too well calculated to make her doubt his clemency and truth. [10]
- She had a compelling atmosphere, a possessive presence; and yet her mind at this time was unemotional--like Octavia, the wife of Mark Antony, "of a cold conversation. [11]
- Lucilius's information that Cleopatra had consented to make advances to Antony had seemed like the rising of the sun after a long period of darkness. [10]
- The sarcophagi of Cleopatra and Mark Antony, by whose side rested Iras and Charmian, were constantly heaped with flowers and offerings to the dead. [10]
- Hence the unfortunate circumstance that Antony had given Barine the counterpart of an armlet which she herself wore as a gift from her lover, was perhaps the principal cause of her bitter resentment against the hapless woman. [10]
- Then Antony had challenged Octavianus to a duel, and received the unfeeling reply that he would find many roads to death open. [10]
- Alexas's persecution had ceased long before; he had first been sent away as envoy by his patron Antony, and afterwards been compelled to accompany him to the war. [10]
- But in that case how had Antony reached Taenarum? [10]
- It was his brother Alexas, the trusted favourite of Mark Antony. [10]
- With the most bombastic exaggeration he described how bitterly Octavianus mourned in Mark Antony the friend, the brother-in-law, the co-ruler and sharer in so many important enterprises. [10]
- Now Antony was beginning to be content in it, and this was what most sorely troubled the faithful friend. [10]
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