Tessera
in example sentence
Let her take my
tessera
; she can wrap her head in a cloth, cover her shoulders with a mantle, and pass out.
More example sentences with word tessera
The Lygian rubbed his forehead, and asked again,--"How didst thou enter?""I have a
tessera
from the overseer of the 'Putrid Pits.'"
So bidding farewell to Petronius, he went hurriedly to the overseer of the "Putrid Pits" for his
tessera.
But disappointment was in waiting,--the overseer would not give the
tessera.
The hope gleamed in him, however, that the soldiers who had seen him before would admit him even without a tessera; so, with the coming of night, he disguised himself as usual in the tunic of a corpse-bearer, and, winding a cloth around his head, betook himself to the prison.
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