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Sentences starting with melissa

Melissa seemed satisfied with this assurance, for she walked on for some time in silence. [10]
Melissa had succumbed with the rest; she had shouted and waved her kerchief, and had not heeded Andreas when he held her hand and asked her to consider what a criminal this man was whom she so eagerly hailed. [10]
Melissa stood mute, with tearful eyes, while Alexander, quite beside himself, tried to relieve his rage and grief by empty threats. [10]
Melissa had confessed with far greater warmth what her feelings had been after she had sacrificed for the suffering sinner. [10]
Melissa threw her whole soul into the dance while Demeter was seeking the lost Persephone, her thoughts were with her brothers; and she laughed as heartily as any one at the jests with which Iambe cheered the stricken mother. [10]
Melissa knew full well that any attempt now to separate Philip from Serapion would be futile; however, she would not leave the last chance untried, and asked him gravely whether he had forgotten his mother's tomb. [10]
Melissa drew her veil closer and clung more tightly to her brother, for a sound of singing and wild cries, which she had heard behind her for some time, was now coming closer. [10]
Melissa remained alone upon the divan. [10]
Melissa observed only two soldiers, who were looking out of window, and whose bodies were shaking as though they were convulsed with profound merriment. [10]
Melissa could explain, to-morrow morning, how everything had happened. [10]

Sentences ending with melissa

But the unhappy woman's expression changed, and she looked down kindly on Melissa. [10]
No one had told him, and he had never in his life received a letter in a woman's hand, except from his mother; and yet he knew that this delicate little roll had come from a woman--from Melissa. [10]
Caracalla, in obedience to a softer impulse, had wished to show himself grateful to Melissa. [10]
Giving her hand to a Roman senator, distinguished by the purple edge to his toga, she descended the steps, and advanced to meet Melissa. [10]
The inspection of this Greek regiment would be certain to give pleasure to Melissa. [10]
And now, for the first time, he began to feel ashamed of his doubts of Melissa. [10]
Pale, and with slightly quivering limbs, he dismissed the prefect and his other friends, and desired Epagathos to call Melissa. [10]
Macrinus was at once to go for the high-priest, and to take care that he took no further steps to conceal Melissa. [10]
She had so often longed for a sister, and she felt as though she had found one in Melissa! [10]
In the midst of the skirmishing he perceived his friend and Melissa. [10]

Short sentences using melissa

Melissa was once more alone. [10]
Tell her this, Melissa. [10]
No one noticed Melissa. [10]
What could be keeping Melissa? [10]
Melissa was now alone. [10]
Even Melissa cheered. [10]
But Melissa? [10]

Sentences containing melissa two or more times

The lictors who were keeping off the mob had stopped Melissa too; but while Alexander had been gazing into Agatha's imploring eyes, feeling as though all his blood had rushed to his heart and face, Melissa had contrived to creep up close to him. [10]
And while the usher vanished from the room, one of the warriors turned his head to look about him, and directly he caught sight of Melissa he gave his comrade a push, and said to him, loud enough for Melissa to hear: "A wonder! [10]
He must have mistaken some one else for Melissa, for it was proved beyond a doubt that Melissa had been burned in her father's house. [10]
If Alexander and Melissa had crossed this vast square, where it was now as light as clay, they would certainly have been seen, and Melissa would have brought not herself only but her protectress also into the greatest danger. [10]

More example sentences with the word melissa in them

With a jesting word he leaped on to the car, and even succeeded in murmuring to Alexander, unobserved, that Melissa had placed herself under his protection. [10]
However, the elder woman was sturdy and determined, and sixty years of age; while Melissa feared nothing, and thought herself sufficiently protected when she had arranged her kerchief so as to hide her face from curious eyes. [10]
Cups filled high with wine now circulated among the mad-cap mystics; even Melissa refreshed herself, handing the beaker to her lover, and Diodoros raised to his mouth that place on the rim which her lips had touched. [10]
It was hung with various garlands, and Melissa, before she prayed and anointed the stone, examined them with eye and hand. [10]
It was lined with soldiers and lictors, who looked closely at each one, even at Melissa herself. [10]
Breathing rapidly and with a heightened color, Melissa at last entered the room of Seleukus's wife. [10]
He now suddenly wished that brighter light might dispel the gloom which just now he had found so restful; for the lady Euryale's demeanor would show him whether Melissa were still a virtuous maiden. [10]
It was a wild and ear-splitting tumult; to Melissa, however, neither painful nor pleasing, for the one idea, that she must speak with the great physician, silenced every other. [10]
Agatha's eyes opened widely when Melissa told her anything good about her brother, and she clung in terror to her new friend as she heard of her excited orgy with her lover. [10]
Though their speeches were flattering and well-worded, Melissa repulsed them by remarking sharply that she did not want their flowers. [10]
Without delay Melissa went on till she had reached the heavy curtain which, as she already knew, shut off Caesar's inner apartments. [10]
But the cool way in which Melissa received the felicitations which the old woman poured out in honor of the future empress, and her tear-reddened eyes, seemed at any rate quite comprehensible. [10]
Miss Melissa Wackles was the eldest daughter, Miss Sophy the next, and Miss Jane the youngest. [12]
While this conversation was taking place, Melissa and her companion had reached the shore of the lake, the large inland sea which washed the southern side of the city and afforded anchorage for the Nile-boats. [10]
Then the conversation was more serious, and Caracalla said, so loud that Melissa could hear him: "Do not forget to whom you speak. [10]
And how proud was Melissa to speak of the bright young artist, who till now had been the sun of her joyless life! [10]
At first she was bent on making Melissa rest; for she would yet require all her strength. [10]
Melissa, as she walked on, could not think with her usual calm. [10]
After Melissa had vanished into Caesar's quarters he immediately carried out his sister's wish, and told the lady Euryale of all that had happened. [10]
He fixed his twinkling glance on Melissa, to invite her sympathy in his successful trick, but her appearance startled him. [10]
But all has turned out well--only that Argutis, whom every one treats as if our old Macedonian blood ran in his veins, was sent yesterday by Melissa with finer flowers for Caracalla's cenotaph than for her own mother's tomb--May her new-fangled god forgive her! [10]
At this Melissa took courage; she turned to Serapion and modestly addressed him: "You, sir, look like a grave, kind man, and seem to have a regard for my brother. [10]
And supposing Diodoros, too, should be converted by Melissa, could he thus alienate from his father the son and heir of Polybius--his benefactor and master? [10]
He regarded it, too, as a dispensation from Heaven that Agatha and Melissa should have happened to meet, and Alexander's happy escape had taken a weight from his mind. [10]
His wondering as to why Melissa had returned, had led to many guesses, and had proved fruitless. [10]
Melissa had listened to this information with mixed feelings. [10]
He glanced up to the side where she was, and Melissa recognized the Egyptian Zminis. [10]
Melissa, in obedience to the lady Euryale, had taken an hour's rest, and then refreshed herself by bathing. [10]
Melissa listened anxiously to the heated discussion which had already become a vehement quarrel. [10]
Old Adventus signed to Melissa, and with drooping head she followed him through the rooms and corridors that led to the apartments of the highpriest. [10]
Caracalla now turned to Melissa once more, and his eye brightened as he again discerned the dimple in her cheeks, which had recovered their roses. [10]
Then he turned to Melissa and asked her: "Would you for their sakes be able to make up your mind to face bitter humiliation, nay, perhaps imminent danger? [10]
He wanted first to make Melissa his, and, like a shepherd, to revel with her in the sweetness of their love. [10]
Alexander now came to his sister's aid, and reminded him how Melissa had hazarded life and liberty to save him and her brothers. [10]
Melissa pointed out to her friend the strangeness of her brother's attire, and the hood which, in the evening light, seemed to be bordered with gold. [10]
Melissa nodded gratefully to her brother, but Heron remained firm in his assertion that to think of flight would be foolish, or at least premature. [10]
Then Melissa turned to her brother and begged him earnestly: "Then you take me to the ship Alexander; take charge of me yourself! [10]
If Melissa were to come out now she would be seized, and it must become known who had shown her the way into the hiding-place that had sheltered her. [10]
Melissa had hearkened to both counselors with eager ear, and both hung anxiously on her lips, while, as if taken out of herself, she gazed with panting bosom into the empty air. [10]
Meanwhile Melissa had thrown off the indifference into which she had fallen, and her old doubts raised their warning heads with renewed force. [10]
She had passed through hours of torment; for her concern about Melissa, who had become very dear to her, had given her much more anxiety than even the loss of her beloved picture. [10]
She would have thought it more natural if she had found Melissa overcome by the horrors she had witnessed, half distraught or paralyzed by distress and rage. [10]
Melissa felt as though she was gazing on the face of a stranger, for, though his eyelids still quivered, his eyes were bright with ecstatic fire and his features looked more youthful. [10]
Euryale also feared this, and Melissa realized what filled them with anxiety; yet she by no means shared the feeling, and the happy confidence with which she tried to comfort her old friends, at the same time pacified and alarmed them. [10]
Melissa blushed to think that she could have mistaken Serenus Samonicus for this noble old man. [10]
In the vestibule they found a servant from the lady Berenike; in his mistress's name he desired Euryale to send Melissa to spend the night with her. [10]
But even now they could not make their way to the long row of houses where the embalmers dwelt, for an impenetrable mass of human beings stood pent up in front of them, and Melissa begged her brother to give her a moment's breathing space. [10]
On one of these Diodoros was laid, Melissa helping in silence, and with such skill as delighted even the physicians. [10]
While he kissed their hands and stammered out words of gratitude, his uncultured but upright spirit told him that he had been blind ever to have rejoiced for a moment at the news that Melissa had been chosen to be empress. [10]
One glance at the woman, and the tears which trickled through her fingers and down her lean arms told Melissa that something dreadful had happened. [10]
Closely enveloped in the veil which Euryale had placed on her head, Melissa passed from room to room, keeping near to the philosopher. [10]
That portion of the universal soul which of yore dwelt in Roxana, and now in you, Melissa, has also vanquished the pain which has embittered my life. [10]
You know that the tendency of the school of philosophy to which I belong insists, above all, on a suspension of judgment; but if there is one thing which may be asserted with any dogmatic certainty--" But Melissa would hear no more. [10]
Melissa, encouraged by the presence of her kind protector, went on: But, great Caesar, you will release my father and my other brother? [10]
They were for the most part elderly men, and Melissa recognized among them Seleukus, Berenike's husband. [10]
While Melissa helped the matron to change her dress--in the next room Alexander paced to and fro in great unrest. [10]
With admirable taste the matron had aimed at giving Melissa a simple, dignified aspect, unadorned and almost priestess-like in its severity. [10]
She quietly set the lamp on the table, and then, as the cool nightbreeze blew in through the open window, to which there was no shutter, she tenderly wrapped the white woolen blanket round Melissa, and muttered to herself, "She liked it so. [10]
He would cross the lake and warn Melissa not to return home, and to tell Alexander what he might think necessary. [10]
When she left the house with Melissa, her eyes were moist with tears of joy and thankfulness. [10]
Melissa could see the happy and gracious face of a divinity in everything she looked upon. [10]
It was to the grave to which Melissa had accompanied him that morning; and he would visit it alone, to meditate undisturbed on the wife he had lost. [10]
He then named the gem-cutter Heron, his son Alexander, and his daughter Melissa, the Alexandrian senator Polybius, his son Diodoros, and the wife of Seleukus. [10]
Melissa rarely interrupted the garrulous old woman; but, while she listened, pleasant pictures of the future rose before her fancy. [10]
First he studied the frieze and the festal display on his right, and when he turned his head to look at the side where Melissa stood, an inward voice bade her withdraw, that the gaze of this monster might not blight her. [10]
She had passed the fountain; her head came into the moonlight, and Melissa could see the dear, kind face. [10]
In one of the few rooms of his vast palace which the chief priest had reserved for the accommodation of the members of his own household, the youth was received by Melissa, Timotheus's wife Euryale, and the lady Berenike. [10]
When, late in the evening, he heard that Melissa was still with Caesar, he had become so uneasy that he had waited the whole night through, first on the steps of a staircase, then walking up and down outside the Serapeum. [10]
I have served the emperor willingly, but before I consent become the wife of such a monster--" "She is right," broke in Euryale, and drew Melissa toward her. [10]
Melissa looked in the direction of his pointing hand, and when he cried with great excitement, "That is no little boat, it is a ship, and a large one, too! [10]
Whoever should take the daughter of the gem-cutter--and he described Melissa once more--would render a special service to Caesar and might reckon on promotion. [10]
She then laid the curling-irons on the dish of coals which stood on a slender tripod, and was about to twist it into ringlets; but Melissa, who had never resorted to such arts, refused to permit it. [10]
Alexander soon found the closed carruca intended for Melissa, and placed her in it as soon as he had helped Euryale into her harmamaxa. [10]
When Caracalla left the balcony, Melissa drew back from the window. [10]
It was Melissa, the artist's daughter, who had pulled it up, with bended knees and outstretched arms, panting for breath. [10]
During this conversation the alarm which had come over Melissa at Caesar's silence had entirely disappeared. [10]
Melissa had supposed that, according to custom, the litter would be carried up the incline or the steps, and into the Serapeum by the great door; but in consequence of the emperor's visit this could not be. [10]
Melissa had heard that the strong scent of the kyphi might prove injurious to Diodoros, and her one thought now was the desire that Galenus might soon approach his couch. [10]
Finally, he promised that the epistle to Caesar, which Melissa was composing, should reach his hands on the morrow. [10]
Thus the picture that raised Caracalla to the level of an Achilles made Melissa shrug her shoulders over the man she dreaded; and while she even doubted Caesar's musical capacities, Diodoros's young, fresh, bell-like voice rose doubly beautiful and true upon her memory's ear. [10]
Philostratus informed him that Melissa was staying with the chief priest's wife; but just as he was about to inquire curiously what had passed between the audacious painter and Caesar--for even Philostratus was a courtier--he was called away to Caracalla. [10]
It was decided that Melissa should for the present remain with her father; but, as soon as Diodoros should be allowed to leave the Serapeum, she was to go across the lake to receive the convalescent on his return home. [10]
Having assured them that he had had no thought of helping them, but only of obeying his superior officers, he disappeared into the night, and the freedman lifted Melissa in his strong arms and carried her down to Zeno's boat, which was waiting for them. [10]
The deep sigh that broke from him induced Melissa to speak a few words of comfort, and now the unhappy man's bursting heart overflowed. [10]
Had not Melissa taken the place in her heart of her lost daughter? [10]
The emperor was suffering particularly severely, and begged to remind Melissa of her promise to serve him gladly if he required her. [10]
At this, Melissa suddenly understood why Andreas had not rejoiced with her, and at the same time she said to herself that her lover must on no account be exposed to so great a danger without her presence. [10]
Diodoros, seized with sudden terror of the dark figure, which he believed to be a risen ghost, took to his heels, dragging Melissa with him. [10]
While he was still sitting behind the screen, he had sent for Melissa, who had obeyed the command, under the protection of Euryale, and he had spoken to her graciously. [10]
Therefore, when Philostratus spoke words of praise, and Melissa thanked him with a blush, he answered with a smile: "There is something frank and untrammeled in their manner of expressing their feelings outside. [10]
Only when the soul is so deeply shaken, as with Melissa and her brother, matters go more slowly, even with the young. [10]
Alexander and Melissa soon were wreathed with myrtle and ivy. [10]
Finally, she whispered something in the philosopher's ear, and received from him the promise to return with Melissa as soon as possible. [10]
At last she slowly turned to Melissa, who stood gazing sadly at the ground, and said in a low voice: "She resembled you in many ways. [10]
Hardly an hour since he had declared to Timon that he had rooted his love for Melissa out of his heart. [10]
When they caught sight of a young and pretty woman on the edge of the path, they would wave a greeting; and many expressed their admiration of Melissa in a very insolent manner. [10]
Close by his side was the prefect Macrinus, who feared lest he should be attacked by a fresh fit; and Melissa shared his fears, as Caracalla cried to Apollonaris in an angry voice, "Scoundrel that you are, you shall repent of this! [10]
First of all she would at any rate see whether Melissa had not meanwhile returned; so she humbly kissed the hem of his robe and hurried away. [10]
Melissa felt that she must leave him to rest. [10]
Heron had already seen the man, and he seemed still to be thinking of him, when Melissa, with a blush and downcast eyes, confessed that, as soon as he was well again, Diodoros was coming to her father to ask her of him in marriage. [10]

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