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1. her great-niece that having crossed the Rubicon of a century of life
2. Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon in defiance of the law, and Vespasian marched into Rome to
3. It also helps to explain the presence of humans on Rubicon Three, protected by the Guardian of Edo
4. He was reading a report by Picard on the Rubicon system on a PADD set before him
5. ) UP’s youth were ready to cross the caste Rubicon
6. What if the Musalman imposters, prompted by their religious obligation, crossed the Hindu Rubicon and tried to Islamize India by force? Maybe in all probability, it would have proved counterproductive in the land of the sanaatana dharma for such a Muslim tabliq would have forged the Hindu unity to the detriment of Islamic continuance in Aryavarta
7. Caesar approached the Rubicon, a river in Northern Italy
8. The Rubicon was called ‘the sacred and inviolable’
9. To cross the Rubicon was his Magnum Opus, the biggest undertaking of his life
10. For two thousand years the phrase “Crossing the Rubicon” has been used to indicate some decisive action of great importance
11. For each of us there is a Rubicon that we have to cross, a point that requires us to be decisive regardless of the consequences
12. Will I cross the Rubicon to live my dreams?
13. Rubicon, The, 76, 77
14. What, thinkest thou, was it that flung Horatius in full armour down from the bridge into the depths of the Tiber? What burned the hand and arm of Mutius? What impelled Curtius to plunge into the deep burning gulf that opened in the midst of Rome? What, in opposition to all the omens that declared against him, made Julius Caesar cross the Rubicon? And to come to more modern examples, what scuttled the ships, and left stranded and cut off the gallant Spaniards under the command of the most courteous Cortes in the New World? All these and a variety of other great exploits are, were and will be, the work of fame that mortals desire as a reward and a portion of the immortality their famous deeds deserve; though we Catholic Christians and knights-errant look more to that future glory that is everlasting in the ethereal regions of heaven than to the vanity of the fame that is to be acquired in this present transitory life; a fame that, however long it may last, must after all end with the world itself, which has its own appointed end
15. He had crossed some kind of Rubicon
16. The Rubicon, we know, was a very insignificant stream to look at; its significance lay entirely in certain invisible conditions
17. The great wars of Africa and Spain, the pirates of Sicily destroyed, civilization introduced into Gaul, into Britanny, into Germany,—all this glory covers the Rubicon
18. Caesar, the violator of the Rubicon, conferring, as though they came from him, the dignities which emanated from the people, not rising at the entrance of the senate, committed the acts of a king and almost of a tyrant, regia ac pene tyrannica
19. A pause—in which I began to steady the palsy of my nerves, and to feel that the Rubicon was passed; and that the trial, no longer to be shirked, must be firmly sustained
20. At any rate, her voice tried to be friendly as she said: “Well—I have crossed the Rubicon
21. With 5,000 Cæsar had passed the Rubicon
22. Gilvary, or Gillivray, from Quebec, had come to him at New York, to persuade him to go to Canada; but Henry said "he would not—that the Rubicon was passed
23. And now an army, which, in point of numbers, Cromwell might envy, greater than that with which Cæsar passed the Rubicon, is to be helped through a reluctant Congress, under the suggestion of its being only a parade force, to make negotiation successful; that it is the incipient state of a project for a grand pacification!
