Egyptian papyruses with beautiful ceremonial reliefs graced the walls, as did peacock feathers and small figurines and masks from the motherland. ❋ L. A. Banks (2011)
Yes -- I did write numerous papyruses on the matter but they were all burned. ❋ Unknown (2008)
He said something about a magistrate being assigned to go through the scrolls and papyruses in your office ... but looking for what? ❋ Unknown (2008)
It was as though historians of an ancient empire, having been forced to rely on a handful of personal papyruses and a few royal inscriptions ... had suddenly been handed a store of material by a conscientious time-traveler .... ❋ Unknown (2004)
It is mentioned in Egyptian papyruses, was well known to the Greeks, and a popular spice in Rome. ❋ Harold McGee (2004)
As for solid wastes, a cantrip recovered from ancient Egyptian papyruses was to turn them instantly into stone scarabs, the sale of which as collectibles ought to help the NASA budget. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1999)
He occasionally had fleeting images of himself poring over papyruses in an ancient library in Alexandria or Athens. ❋ Jayne Ann Krentz (1998)
There was an abundance, unheard of for those times, of objects of luxury -- rugs, glass, stuffs, papyruses, jewels, artistic pottery -- because they made all these things at ❋ Guglielmo Ferrero (1906)
After Hiram's departure the heir shut himself up in the most remote chamber under pretext of reading sacred papyruses. ❋ Boles��aw Prus (1879)
It is full of papyruses on which are written the details of the case. ❋ Boles��aw Prus (1879)
He visited Edfu, whose temple had pylons a hundred and fifty feet high, and which possessed an immense library of papyruses, and on the walls of which were written and depicted, as it were, an encyclopedia of the geography, astronomy, and theology of that period. ❋ Boles��aw Prus (1879)
Egyptians have been moving along the Nile, each of them bearing a brick and a bucket, while the vile Hittites would be masters going around with clubs and papyruses. ❋ Boles��aw Prus (1879)
We provide for that by winding the mummies in papyruses, on which are written sentences, and by putting the 'Book of the Dead' in their coffins. ❋ Boles��aw Prus (1879)
The scribes fell on their faces, gathered up their papyruses quickly, and bore them away in a twinkle. ❋ Boles��aw Prus (1879)
