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  • Shakespeare, Julius Caesar   (source)
  • Harding, according to Russell, could have put on a toga and stepped onstage in a production of Julius Caesar.†   (source)
  • You've only read my Julius Caesar and even I don't understand half of what they're talking about.†   (source)
  • "And none so poor," he muttered to a reporter, echoing Julius Caesar, "to do me reverence."†   (source)
  • Or Rome at the time of Julius Caesar?†   (source)
  • "Julius Caesar," John said.†   (source)
  • Are you talking about Lena, or Julius Caesar?†   (source)
  • Granpa taken the side of Julius Caesar in his killing.†   (source)
  • Last year the play was Julius Caesar, and Cordelia got to be part of the crowd.†   (source)
  • And then, of course, there was Julius Caesar, the victim of the most famous assassination in history.†   (source)
  • I could understand the class not knowing Richard Nixon, Napoleon, Julius Caesar, or Alexander the Great, but I could not see how black children living in the latter half of the twentieth century could fail to know Sidney Poitier, Wilt Chamberlain, or Willie Mays.†   (source)
  • Possibly that was all that Julius Caesar required.†   (source)
  • Julius Caesar was proclaimed dictator perpetuus (dictator for life).
  • He sat on the stoop and began reading Julius Caesar.†   (source)
  • DR. DOANE: Today in history: on this day in 44 B.C., Julius Caesar was assassinated.†   (source)
  • The Romans would find that auspicious—the first day of the month named for Julius Caesar.†   (source)
  • Like Julius Caesar getting assassinated?†   (source)
  • Or, as it was known back in Julius Caesar's time, the ides.†   (source)
  • Then we made Owen Meany stand in the dark inside the secret passageway, while Mr. Fish recited, too loudly, the passage that Owen had always admired from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.†   (source)
  • Many great minds in history had invented cryptologic solutions to the challenge of data protection: Julius Caesar devised a code-writing scheme called the Caesar Box; Mary, Queen of Scots created a transposition cipher and sent secret communiqués from prison; and the brilliant Arab scientist Abu Yusuf Ismail al-Kindi protected his secrets with an ingeniously conceived polyalphabetic substitution cipher.†   (source)
  • MISS NARWIN: Now, class, during the first few weeks of this new term well be reading William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.†   (source)
  • 'Dan Needham taught me to drive; it was the summer Dan directed Julius Caesar in the Gravesend Academy summer school, and he would take me for lessons every morning before rehearsals.†   (source)
  • I would then start with Julius Caesar.†   (source)
  • The quarrymen were fearless drivers and they trucked the granite and their machinery at full throttle; but, in the summer, the trucks raised so much dust that Dan and I had warning when one was coming—I always had time to pull over, while Dan recited his favorite Shakespeare from Julius Caesar.†   (source)
  • "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears … I always recited speeches from Macbeth and Julius Caesar. as those were the adults' favorites.†   (source)
  • I read a monologue from Julius Caesar and performed a short hip-hop play about the redemption of a former child soldier that I had written with Esther's encouragement.†   (source)
  • When we saw Dan's production of Julius Caesar, later that summer, I had passed my driver's test; yet, in the evenings, when Owen and I would drive down to the boardwalk and the casino at Hampton Beach together, we took the tomato-red pickup and Owen always drove.†   (source)
  • Julius Caesar.†   (source)
  • If Julius Caesar came back from the dead, he would've had no trouble recognizing Reyna's troops as worthy soldiers of Rome.†   (source)
  • Shakespeare, Julius Caesar   (source)
  • Maybe Julius Caesar was right.†   (source)
  • Julius Caesar.†   (source)
  • This brand-new copy of Julius Caesar will certainly keep the president's mood upbeat, which, in turn, will do wonders for Mary's morale.†   (source)
  • Percy paused at the doorway, trying not to think about Julius Caesar getting slashed to death at a senate meeting.†   (source)
  • "Yes," Vitellius said, "back in Caesar's day—that's Julius Caesar, mind you—the Fifth Cohort was something!†   (source)
  • During one two-month span in the winter of 1864, he saw Richard III, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, and, of course, Julius Caesar.†   (source)
  • Just as the story of Julius Caesar has been told and retold for centuries, the tragedy that befell Lincoln should be known by every American.†   (source)
  • Lincoln's spirits will soar at the sight of both men, but in the meantime Mary cannot wait to see his face light up when she presents him with Julius Caesar.†   (source)
  • He has borrowed the idea from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, which he performed six months earlier on Broadway with his two actor brothers, both of whom he despises.†   (source)
  • It is eerie that Abraham Lincoln found much solace in the play Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare, given that the two great men met their ends in the same way.†   (source)
  • Inside the White House, just a few blocks from where John Wilkes Booth is walking the streets, a beaming Mary Lincoln holds a slim leather-bound copy of Julius Caesar.†   (source)
  • They were in Julius Caesar now and the stage direction "Alarum" confused Katie.†   (source)
  • Think what Ford, Edison, Napoleon Bonaparte, and Julius Caesar would do.†   (source)
  • They didn't always agree with his political opinions—Roosevelt was the faultless descendant of Julius Caesar, Napoleon Bonaparte, and Abraham Lincoln—but they felt he had a fine head and would have gone far in politics.†   (source)
  • Pettingill was a cousin of the Bank president's wife and a famous authority on the ruins of Pompeii; the Bank president was an ardent admirer of Julius Caesar and had once, while in Rome, spent an hour and a quarter in reverent inspection of the Coliseum.†   (source)
  • Comrade Ogilvy, who had never existed in the present, now existed in the past, and when once the act of forgery was forgotten, he would exist just as authentically, and upon the same evidence, as Charlemagne or Julius Caesar.†   (source)
  • The boy sat beside the bed and his mother read out of a very long book all about how the priest had acted in front of the bishop the part of Julius Caesar: there was a fish basket at her feet, and the fish were bleeding, wrapped in her handkerchief.†   (source)
  • Snowball, who had studied an old book of Julius Caesar's campaigns which he had found in the farmhouse, was in charge of the defensive operations.†   (source)
  • He had more spending money than most boys and he knew Julius Caesar backwards, forwards, and upside-down.†   (source)
  • He reported that they were studying Julius Caesar and the principal read from the Bible each assembly period and that was enough for Neeley.†   (source)
  • Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of Gaul.†   (source)
  • They say Julius Caesar gave Servilia a pearl worth ₣120,000 in our currency.†   (source)
  • And on the wall of another closet there was written in backhand in beautiful writing: Julius Caesar wrote The Calico Belly.†   (source)
  • So you do not know those thespian faces that can embody the features of a Julius Caesar, a Goethe, and a Beethoven all in one, but whose owners, the moment they open their mouths, prove to be the most miserable ninnies under the sun.†   (source)
  • Julius Caesar The impatience of the savages who lingered about the prison of Uncas, as has been seen, had overcome their dread of the conjurer's breath.†   (source)
  • How many a time have we mourned over the dead body of Julius Caesar, and to be'd and not to be'd, in this very room, for his amusement?†   (source)
  • You ask yourself, how would all them ancestors of yours, away to Julius Caesar—not to go beyond him at present—have borne that blow; you remember scores of them that would have borne it well; and you bear it well on their accounts, and to maintain the family credit.†   (source)
  • Also a man might go far, as he himself had done, by strict attention to plays called Lear and Julius Caesar, both much in demand by examiners.†   (source)
  • It was Covent Garden Theatre that I chose; and there, from the back of a centre box, I saw Julius Caesar and the new Pantomime.†   (source)
  • A sixth was a nondescript, representing "a man with a shirt-collar open," to use the language of Richard, "with a laurel on his head-it was Julius Caesar or Dr. Faustus; there were good reasons for believing either," The walls were hung with a dark lead-colored English paper that represented Britannia weeping over the tomb of Wolfe, The hero himself stood at a little distance from the mourning goddess, and at the edge of the paper.†   (source)
  • They went up the stone staircase leading simply to the long gallery above the cloisters, a gallery where all the dusty worthless old pictures had been banished for the last three generations—mouldy portraits of Queen Elizabeth and her ladies, General Monk with his eye knocked out, Daniel very much in the dark among the lions, and Julius Caesar on horseback, with a high nose and laurel crown, holding his Commentaries in his hand.†   (source)
  • Many plays, among them Lear, Hamlet, Macbeth, Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, have no sex complications: the thread of their action can be followed by children who could not understand a single scene of Mrs Warren's Profession or Iris.†   (source)
  • Henrietta wandered away with Mr. Bantling, whom it was apparently delightful to her to hear speak of Julius Caesar as a "cheeky old boy," and Ralph addressed such elucidations as he was prepared to offer to the attentive ear of our heroine.†   (source)
  • Lear was not so full of historical allusions as Julius Caesar; the book cost four annas, but could be bought second-hand in Bow Bazar for two.†   (source)
  • Had Pyrrhus not fallen by a beldam's hand in Argos or Julius Caesar not been knifed to death.†   (source)
  • …the Last of the Mohicans, the Rose of Castile, the Man for Galway, The Man that Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo, The Man in the Gap, The Woman Who Didn't, Benjamin Franklin, Napoleon Bonaparte, John L. Sullivan, Cleopatra, Savourneen Deelish, Julius Caesar, Paracelsus, sir Thomas Lipton, William Tell, Michelangelo Hayes, Muhammad, the Bride of Lammermoor, Peter the Hermit, Peter the Packer, Dark Rosaleen, Patrick W. Shakespeare, Brian Confucius, Murtagh Gutenberg, Patricio Velasquez,…†   (source)
  • …his shoes and trousers there on the chair before me so barefaced without even asking permission and standing out that vulgar way in the half of a shirt they wear to be admired like a priest or a butcher or those old hypocrites in the time of Julius Caesar of course hes right enough in his way to pass the time as a joke sure you might as well be in bed with what with a lion God Im sure hed have something better to say for himself an old Lion would O well I suppose its because they were…†   (source)
  • — Did Julius Caesar build that place, my lord?†   (source)
  • I have heard that Julius Caesar Grew fat with feasting there.†   (source)
  • I did enact Julius Caesar; I was kill'd i' the Capitol; Brutus killed me.†   (source)
  • They asked Julius Caesar, the valiant Roman emperor, what was the best death.†   (source)
  • Julius Caesar, the boldest, wisest, and bravest of captains, was charged with being ambitious, and not particularly cleanly in his dress, or pure in his morals.†   (source)
  • O Julius Caesar, thou art mighty yet!†   (source)
  • By this means it was, that Julius Caesar, who was set up by the People against the Senate, having won to himselfe the affections of his Army, made himselfe Master, both of Senate and People.†   (source)
  • Julius Caesar, and other Emperors after him, had the like Testimony; that is, were Canonized for Saints; now defined; and is the same with the Apotheosis of the Heathen.†   (source)
  • ] Why, Enobarbus, When Antony found Julius Caesar dead, He cried almost to roaring; and he wept When at Philippi he found Brutus slain.†   (source)
  • That Julius Caesar was a famous man; With what his valour did enrich his wit, His wit set down to make his valour live; Death makes no conquest of this conqueror; For now he lives in fame, though not in life.†   (source)
  • To you all three, The senators alone of this great world, Chief factors for the gods,—I do not know Wherefore my father should revengers want, Having a son and friends; since Julius Caesar, Who at Philippi the good Brutus ghosted, There saw you labouring for him.†   (source)
  • …and Vehiculum Deorum; and the Image was placed in a frame, or Shrine, which they called Ferculum: And that which they called Pompa, is the same that now is named Procession: According whereunto, amongst the Divine Honors which were given to Julius Caesar by the Senate, this was one, that in the Pompe (or Procession) at the Circaean games, he should have Thensam & Ferculum, a sacred Chariot, and a Shrine; which was as much, as to be carried up and down as a God: Just as at this day the…†   (source)
  • What, in opposition to all the omens that declared against him, made Julius Caesar cross the Rubicon?†   (source)
  • To which Don Quixote made answer: "The tombs of the heathens were generally sumptuous temples; the ashes of Julius Caesar's body were placed on the top of a stone pyramid of vast size, which they now call in Rome Saint Peter's needle.†   (source)
  • We read of Marcus Brutes, (one that had his life given him by Julius Caesar, and was also his favorite, and notwithstanding murthered him,) how at Phillipi, the night before he gave battell to Augustus Caesar, he saw a fearfull apparition, which is commonly related by Historians as a Vision: but considering the circumstances, one may easily judge to have been but a short Dream.†   (source)
  • Go not ungirt and loose, Sancho; for disordered attire is a sign of an unstable mind, unless indeed the slovenliness and slackness is to be set down to craft, as was the common opinion in the case of Julius Caesar.†   (source)
  • …you the story of Cacus, for I have it by heart; if with loose women, there is the Bishop of Mondonedo, who will give you the loan of Lamia, Laida, and Flora, any reference to whom will bring you great credit; if with hard-hearted ones, Ovid will furnish you with Medea; if with witches or enchantresses, Homer has Calypso, and Virgil Circe; if with valiant captains, Julius Caesar himself will lend you himself in his own 'Commentaries,' and Plutarch will give you a thousand Alexanders.†   (source)
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