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Whether this intimacy might drift into something closer, compelling him to take a reef in his sails, never troubled him. It was not the first time that he had steered his craft between the Scylla of matrimony and the Charybdis of scandal, and he had not the slightest doubt of his being able to do it again. As for Lucy, she had many plans in view.
The two volumes of his biography, with all their absorbing interest, have not, I think, added much to the effect of his books. A Much-abused Letter, Lex Orandi, Scylla and Charybdis, and Christianity at the Cross-Roads have settled nothing. What book of real influence does? They present many contradictions; but are thereby, perhaps, only the more living.
There had always been trouble enough between the two, but after Dolf's arrival the kitchen department grew very hot and uncomfortable, and even the wary Dolf himself, skilled as he was in Lotharian practices, frequently had great difficulty in steering clear of both Scylla and Charybdis.
The village people say he walks!" "And Monica said it was nothing but nonsense and superstition." Lindsay tried to sound brave, but she held Cicely's arm tightly notwithstanding. Poor Cicely felt "'twixt Scylla and Charybdis". To toll the bell seemed their only chance of escape, and to do so they must certainly mount into the square room where the rope was hanging.
Here was a Scylla and Charybdis business: as if a President wasn't trying enough, without the Governor of Massachusetts and the hub of the hub piled on top of that.
But Scylla and Charybdis a word to the wise he only saved his estate at expense of a lawsuit, which again subdivided the family property. He was, however, a man of resolution.
Before leaving Naples, he had made up his mind to attempt the dreaded straits of that name, and dare the dangers of the noted whirlpools of Scylla and Charybdis. Every one cheerfully assured him that the attempt would result in death, for beside the dangers of the whirlpools, the straits were infested with sharks. Arriving at Messina, he determined to test the report of sharks.
You have adhered to a lofty ideal and yet have been absolutely practical and, therefore, efficient, so that you are a perpetual example to young men how to avoid alike the Scylla of indifference and the Charybdis of efficiency for the wrong.... HON. ANDREW D. WHITE, Ambassador to Germany, Berlin, Germany. OYSTER BAY, NEW YORK, September 15, 1902
The small matter which I have chronicled under the heading of "A Study in Scarlet," and that other later one connected with the loss of the Gloria Scott, may serve as examples of this Scylla and Charybdis which are forever threatening the historian.
And presently Henry himself conceived the idea of getting himself put forward as a third candidate, through whom a way of escape might be found for those who regarded Francis and Charles as Scylla and Charybdis. The combination however of the Crown of England with the Imperial diadem was no improvement in their eyes. Leo did not wish to find himself in Wolsey's grip.
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