messaline

The Gage is a brass automaton created by a wizard of Messaline around the core of a human being.

But, as in the earlier play, there is one notable exception: the Captain [Carranzano]'s allusion to the coup which ended the twins' brief reign in Messaline and forced them into exile ("And then appears the villain, the general who is always on the prowl, / with his treacherous hand on the hilt of his sword").

We encounter the same refrains in chapter 4 (483-89), where Renee and Maxime realize their incestuous passion in the greenhouse, amid the Caladiums, the Chinese Hibiscus (whose blossoms are equated to "une Messaline geante" [489]), and where they rest under the poisonous "Tanghin de Madagascar."

On voyait les portraits de Messaline, de Theodora, de Marguerite de Bourgogne, de Marie Stuart et de Catherine II" (Flaubert, Novembre 225).

During a trip to the distant planet of Messaline with Donna and Martha, the Doctor bumps into Jenny, his long-lost daughter played by Georgia Moffett, the real-life daughter of Peter Davison, who played the Gallifreyan's fifth incarnation.

The Time Lord crosses paths with an enigmatic young woman in the midst of an endless war on the distant planet Messaline. Meanwhile, Martha is kidnapped by the Hath.