Use roman in a sentence
Sentences starting with roman
- Roman lictors, and Scythian, Thracian, or Keltic men-at-arms kept every one out of the way who did not belong to the imperial train, with relentless determination. [10]
- Roman nations burn incense to Octavia, and, when Cleopatra's name is uttered, they veil their faces indignantly. [10]
- Roman history is full of the marvels of interpretation which these extraordinary men performed. [5]
- Roman Catholic School. [5]
Sentences ending with roman
- But if I were only a Roman! [5]
- What have you to do with the Roman? [10]
- Before Pollux left the room the Emperor gave him the tablets with the verses and begged him, with a meaning smile, to desire the gate-keeper at the Caesareum to give them to Annaeus Florus the Roman. [10]
- Now this annoyed the Roman. [10]
- Do you think that I do not know, who set the poisoned serpent on the Roman? [10]
- Finally he stood still in front of Eulaeus and asked him: "What more do you know of the Roman? [10]
- Yet deep and severe as was the wound, it did not destroy the tremendous vitality of the gigantic Roman. [10]
- He was immediately recognized, and many voices called out: "The crazy Roman! [10]
- He was an oratorical bummer, and told his story with all the dignity and elevated language of an old Roman. [4]
- Does the purple mist always hang there upon the waters of Salerno Bay, forever hiding from the gaze Paestum and its temples, and all that shore which is so much more Grecian than Roman? [4]
Short sentences using roman
- I was a Roman soldier. [5]
Sentences containing roman two or more times
- 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]
- At the nuptials the king, in a Roman habit, occupied a seat lower than hers, while she sat on a throne habited as a Roman empress, and received homage. [4]
- In accordance with Roman law and Roman usage, the government being half-owner in all works of art found in the Campagna, the State has naught to do but pay five million francs to Mr. Arnold and take permanent possession of the beautiful statue. [5]
- Even half a Roman coat of mail and a bit of mosaic from a Roman bath were to be seen here. [10]
- Over this part of the route were occasional remains of an old Roman road like the Appian Way, whose paving-stones still clung to their places with Roman tenacity. [5]
More example sentences with the word roman in them
- Caesar has made your father, and your neighbor Skopas, and every free man in the country a Roman citizen; but it is a pity that, while he gave each man his patent of citizenship, he should have filched the money out of his purse. [10]
- The Roman attacks you with naked weapons, but you slink in the dark, like a scorpion, and try to sting your enemy in the heel. [10]
- I know what you wish to express; I know that you consider it a sin to take one's life, even in 'the high Roman fashion. [11]
- The highest breeding, you know, comes round to the Indian standard,--to take everything coolly,--nil admirari,--if you happen to be learned and like the Roman phrase for the same thing. [6]
- I have told you his father was a freedman of the former prefect Claudius Balbillus, and by the favor of the Roman his father rose and grew rich. [10]
- Is my father wrong when he says that it is a proud thing to belong to the mightiest realm on earth, before whose power barbarians tremble; a great thing to feel and call yourself a Roman citizen? [10]
- For I have written about the Coliseum, and the gladiators, the martyrs, and the lions, and yet have never once used the phrase "butchered to make a Roman holiday. [5]
- The Roman, a worthy man, looked at her with a benevolent, but searching gaze. [10]
- Now, not another word; and, come what may, so long as the Roman visitors dwell under this roof, beware of it! [10]
- That Egyptian headdress with the vulture's head which the king likes best to see me in, the young Greek Lysias and the Roman too, call barbaric, and so every one must call it who is not interested in the Egyptians. [10]
- The worthy man with the smooth face, firmly-closed lips, and long nose, which offered an excellent straight line to its owner's burin, sat on a throne in the costume of a Roman general, while Vulcan and Bacchus, Minerva and Poinona, offered him gifts. [10]
- Besides, her success with the Roman would be to the advantage of Diodoros, and the freedman was devoted to him. [10]
- Favorinus reproached him with overestimating the versatility of the Roman genius, like his friend Fronto, and underrating the Hellenic intellect. [10]
- Two physicians were with him, and she grew pale as she recognized in one of them the emperor's Roman body-physician. [10]
- Here she is with her little blemishes 'restored' (that is, patched) by the most noted Roman artists--and the mere fact that they did the humble patching of so noble a creation will make their names illustrious while the world stands. [5]
- It was opened with great care, and Zeno took from it a paper which lay on a rose-coloured silk pad and on which Doctor Melchior had written in large Roman characters: "To my son Zeno Ueberhell. [10]
- You were speaking with enthusiasm of the splendor of the Roman Empire. [10]
- Even Mrs. Waring, who resembled a Roman matron, with her wavy white hair parted in the middle and her gentle yet classic features, sighed secretly at times at the unyielding attitude of her husband, although admiring him for it. [9]
- The Greek Plutarch, who lived much nearer the period of our heroine than Dio, estimated her more justly than most of the Roman historians. [10]
- Meanwhile shouts and whistles were still heard; nay, when Tarautas came out on the arena in the highly decorated armor of a Roman legate, at the head of a troop of heavily armed men, and again greeted the emperor, the commotion began afresh. [10]
- The German Romanticism, which was fostered by the Romish priesthood, ended, or its disciples ended, in the bosom of the Roman Catholic Church. [4]
- 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]
- Oh, indeed yes; when you talk about your poor Roman and Egyptian day-before-yesterday antiquities, you should choose a time when the hoary Shadow Face of the Jungfrau is not by. [5]
- None of them were drowned that day, and I learned at night that they were Roman Catholics from Whykokornagh. [4]
- Between them fires were burning, round which were gathered groups of Roman soldiers and imperial servants. [10]
- I am very well satisfied however, for I like the number of the Muses; and perhaps he desired to do you, Publius, particular honor, since we are assembled here in the Roman fashion. [10]
- Chief among these was the Duncan house--still so called, although Mr. Duncan, who built it, had been dead these fifteen years, and his daughter and heiress, Janet, had married an Italian Marquis and lived in a Roman palace, rehabilitated by the Duncan money. [9]
- But his story was scarcely ended when a carriage stopped at the Corner of the Muses and an aristocratic Roman alighted. [10]
- By day it was much used by pilgrims, and the Roman could not miss it even by night, for the mule he was riding knew it well. [10]
- But the attempt was frustrated, for some Roman lictors who had just come up stood in their way, and sent them to the southern side of the street of Hermes, to mingle with the gaping crowd under the arcade. [10]
- The Roman notion was barbarous grandeur. [4]
- Titianus received his visitor, lying down, and yet his demeanor revealed the self-possessed dignity of a high-born Roman, and the calm of a Stoic philosopher. [10]
- He had that very day rejected, without pity, a noble Roman lady who petitioned for her husband's life, and with the same breath he had afterwards befooled her! [10]
- The Roman has valuable cattle in his shafts, and at the inn down there, there is a shed for horses. [10]
- We beheld around us, to-day, selfishness, ruthless competition, as great contrasts between misery and luxury as in the days of the Roman Empire. [9]
- It might roll up and be removable, as the great awning of the Roman Coliseum was, --not like the Boston one, which went off in a high wind. [4]
- I took them up again a few years ago, after reading with genuine pleasure in Otto Ribbeck's masterpiece, The History of Roman Poetry, the portions devoted to Plautus and Terence. [10]
- It is the type of the true and steadfast man of the Roman poet, whose soul remains unmoved while the firmament cracks and tumbles about him. [6]
- There are only two persons in the world who stand on a solid foundation, the Roman Catholic and the Agnostic. [4]
- The senators sat trembling on their antique seats of gilt ivory, the relics of departed splendor imitated from those of the Roman senators, looking at each other and shrugging their shoulders while they listened to a letter which had just reached them from the hadi. [10]
- This old stone tower was very massive--and rather ruinous, too, for it was Roman, and four hundred years old. [5]
- One day he took the countess to a Roman Catholic church, where she knelt down before the altar to which she was led. [2]
- It would be too much to say that some notion of the "equality of men" did not underlie the socialistic and communistic ideas which prevailed from time to time in the ancient world, and broke out with volcanic violence in the Grecian and Roman communities. [4]
- We must apply to the Roman Publius Scipio, and he will have no difficulty in succeeding. [10]
- The spectacle was to represent a camp of the Alemanni, surprised and seized by Roman warriors. [10]
- Two places next to him remained vacant, while on the side by the Roman reclined the brave and prudent Hierax, the friend of Ptolemy Euergetes and his most faithful follower. [10]
- Ere she went to her work she granted a second audience to the Roman envoy. [10]
- Desire that woman to conduct us to the Roman lord who dwells here. [10]
- He desired her to come home with him at once, and she rose to obey, listening in silence to his assurances that the lives of Karnis and Orpheus would not be worth a sesterce if they fell into the hands of the Roman soldiers. [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]
- In antique Roman times it was the custom of the Deity to try to conceal His intentions in the entrails of birds, and this was patiently and hopefully continued century after century, although the attempted concealment never succeeded, in a single recorded instance. [5]
- But after a time Mr. Brownson found he had mistaken his church, and went over to the Roman Catholic establishment, of which he became and remained to his dying day one of the most stalwart champions. [6]
- In the Roman time grapes abounded and wine was plenty, but the culture disappeared after the Conquest. [4]
- The thought flashed through her brain that Fate itself had brought about this pause just at this spot; and when she heard the mosaic-worker exclaim, "The great Roman physician! [10]
- The great ravine, three quarters of a mile long, the ancient boundary which now cuts the town in two, is bridged where the main street, the Corso, crosses, the bridge resting on old Roman substructions, as everything else about here does. [4]
- In support of this, Virgil and two other Roman poets are quoted. [5]
- The pride of these folk is not diminished because Hamlet's wig gets awry, or a Roman has trouble with his foolish garters. [11]
- Before you go there I advise you to review Roman history and the classic authors. [6]
- He must teach them to silence their conscience and the voice of Roman rectitude; he must take on himself the whole responsibility of this deed, at which the timid quaked. [10]
- I soon felt the warmest appreciation of the Roman comedies, which served as the foundation of these studies. [10]
- The top of the Trunk is arched; the arch is a perfect half-circle, in the Roman style of architecture, for in the then rapid decadence of Greek art, the rising influence of Rome was already beginning to be felt in the art of the Republic. [5]
- The flare of the torches which illuminated the street was mirrored in eager eyes glowing with wine and passion, and in the glittering weapons of the Roman soldiery. [10]
- The largest of the tents, in front of which Roman sentinels paced up and down, two and two, on guard, was wide open on the side towards the sea. [10]
- Even Julius Paulinus, the satirist, followed the Roman priest's lead; but he whispered in the ear of Cassius Dio "Alexander's soul was inquisitive, and wanted to see how it could live in the body which, of all mortal tenements on earth, least resembles his own. [10]
- Yes that is the Roman tuba. [10]
- Yet he wished the Roman the most brilliant victory; for his defeat would have been Cleopatra's also, and would she endure the consequences of such a disaster? [10]
- The words of the Roman satirist, that tears were the best portion of all human life, returned to his memory. [10]
- Both Archibius and the Roman Proculejus had counselled her not to receive him entirely alone. [10]
- Alluded to by the Roman Poet as Vox, et praeterea nihil. [6]
- I know all the Roman ladies. [10]
- It is said the Roman King Ferdinand is urging the revocation of the order. [10]
- The sovereign of the Roman Empire is a thousand times a murderer. [10]
- The Clergy of the Roman Catholic Church. [5]
- The charioteer wears the red-bordered toga of the highest Roman officials. [10]
- The centre of the opposite wall was occupied by two small windows surmounted by a broad, semicircular arch, and separated by a short Roman pillar. [10]
- The remains of the old Roman baths, which appear to have been very extensive, are partially exposed. [6]
- The first is the noble cast of the column of Trajan, vast in dimensions, crowded with history in its most striking and enduring form; a long array of figures representing in unquestioned realism the military aspect of a Roman army. [6]
- 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]
- On one of the latter days of that three-weeks session the gowned scholars and professors made one grand assault all along the line, fairly overwhelming Joan with objections and arguments culled from the writings of every ancient and illustrious authority of the Roman Church. [5]
- There some of the later Roman emperors fixed their residences, and there they repose. [4]
- There you see the hand of that awful power, the Roman Catholic Church. [5]
- We are in the habit of allowing a certain arrogant assumption to our Roman Catholic brethren. [6]
- Now and then the figure of the Roman rose before her mind's eye, and every time that this occurred she colored to her very forehead. [10]
- We have appropriated the English conviviality, the German simplicity, the Roman pomp, and we have added to it an element of expense in keeping with our own greatness. [4]
- So this was the beginning of the Napoleon "legend"; and by-and-by this coarse head will be idealized into the Roman Emperor type, in which I myself might have believed but for the revelations of the night of strange adventure. [4]
- When she entered the atrium she heard that Berenike had gone out to drive with Archibius and his Roman friend. [10]
- They tell me that those who dig down in the edge of the shallow water find sunken walls, and the remains of old foundations of Roman workmanship. [4]
- He tells us that the Roman Catholic Church is the one 'through which alone we can hope for heaven. [6]
- O aching days that passed Filled with strange fears, each wilder than the last: The soldier's lance,--the fierce centurion's sword, The crushing wheels that whirl some Roman lord, The midnight crypt that suck's the captive's breath, The blistering sun on Hinnom's vale of death! [6]
- Then it was that Mrs. Lauder, the sister of the Roman Catholic missionary, Father Halen, being a woman of notable character and kindness, visited her and begged her to tell all. [11]
- I was sure that I had seen her before, looking down from the balcony of a villa just beyond the Roman wall, for the face was not one that even the most unimpressible idler would forget. [4]
- The street was swarming with Roman soldiers. [10]
- At last he succeeded in forcing a passage to the tomb, which he found surrounded on all sides by Roman lictors and the Scythian guards of the city, who, however, permitted him, as the architect, to pass. [10]
- He was a strong man, and by his aid the dying Roman was seized, drawn upon the scaffolding, and carried down the staircase to the tomb in the first story. [10]
- The handsome Roman stood in the middle of his gilt chariot, and himself drove the four white horses, harnessed abreast; on his head he wore a wreath, and across his breast, from one shoulder, a garland of roses. [10]
- If a pirate's spear put an end to bondage under the Roman yoke and to this unworthy yearning and wavering, so much the better! [10]
- He was the son of Fulvia, his father's first wife, and feeling himself a Roman, would have preferred a thousand times to live on the banks of the Tiber. [10]
- Time has made some great changes since the Roman days. [5]
- It was as singular as it was gratifying that I was also so fortunate as to find among the rubbish of the arena, a stained and mutilated copy of the Roman Daily Battle-Ax, containing a critique upon this very performance. [5]
- All at once she wondered if his words had any hidden meaning, and she felt angrily self-conscious; but she instantly put the reflection away, for if ever any man travelled by the straight Roman road of speech and thought, it was he. [11]
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