How To Use Egypt In A Sentence

  • Warner wrote from Egypt expressing sympathy for their unfurnished state of affairs, but added, "I would rather fit out three houses and fill them with furniture than to fit out one 'dahabiyeh'. Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete
  • These include a nice Nigerian guy who sells the best roast chicken around (he did this in Paris as well), a couple of Egyptians and a Tunisian who make great chicken shawarma and a couple of Turkish guys who do the same with beef.
  • Europeans have also learnt to miscall the Egyptians “Arabs”: the difference is as great as between an Englishman and a Spaniard. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • The first, built by Solomon (1012 B.C.) appears from the Biblical description [6] to have combined Egyptian conceptions (successive courts, lofty entrance-pylons, the Sanctuary and the sekos or “Holy of Holies”) with A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised
  • It seems that Egyptians continued to use hieroglyphs from around 3000 b.c. until the time of the Roman Empire.
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  • The church was dedicated to St Anthony of Egypt, patron saint of swineherds and of charcoal burners, a trade carried out on the fell for many years in the past.
  • Agates were apparently highly valued by the ancient Egyptians for their lapidary use and were mounted into gold with other precious stones such as lapis and emeralds.
  • Personnel from HMAS Anzac set off to do a tour of Egypt while the ship is anchored near the entrance to the Suez Canal.
  • Egypt, was meant to encompass the whole world of learning. Times, Sunday Times
  • Newtown is the place to be this month if you have an interest in palmistry, astrology, numerology, Egyptian sand reading or other forms of divination.
  • Phoenix, for so Peter had dubbed the haggard in memory of his and Jenny's first discussion of the bennu hieroglyph in the Egyptian Museum, had known the ecstasy of freedom and had a look about her that definitely said she preferred the wild to captivity. From This Beloved Hour
  • He came to Egypt in 1168 as an assistant to his uncle, who was a general and then became the vizier of the last Fatimid caliph.
  • Instead of being crushed at once, as perhaps the writer expected, it darted forward, quite briskly and cheerfully, at six or seven miles an hour; requiring no spur or admonitive to haste, except the shrieking of the little Egyptian _gamin_, who ran along by asinus's side. "[ Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men.
  • Economy Minister Zafer Caglayan told Turkey's CNBC-e television channel that Ankara would on Thursday begin to truck goods across Iraq and ship them by sea from the southern port of Mersin to Alexandria, Egypt, avoiding Syria. Tension Rises at Turkey-Syria Border
  • Charged they were that they worshipped an ass's head; which impious folly -- first fastened on the Jews by Tacitus, Hist., lib.v. cap. 1, in these words, "Effigiem animalis, quo monstrante errorem sitimque depulerant, penetrali sacravere" (having before set out a feigned direction received by a company of asses), which he had borrowed from Apion, a railing Egyptian of Alexandria [224] -- was so ingrafted in their minds that no defensative could be allowed. The Sermons of John Owen
  • One of Egypt's top-ranking admirals would be participating in sailboat races on the Nile River the same day.
  • In 1939, the yardangs in southwestern Egypt were termed ‘mud-lions’ by British explorer Ralph Bagnold.
  • In Egypt, Lozah recently visited some youth centres in Aswan that are participating in an initiative encouraging girls and women to utilise traditionally male-dominated spaces: Global Voices in English » Blogging About Poverty And Development In The Arab World
  • The last datable examples of ancient Egyptian writing are found on the island of Philae, where a hieroglyphic temple inscription was carved in AD 394 and where a piece of demotic graffiti has been dated to 450 AD.
  • I’ve also read mesopotamian myths that have survived including the Avesta from the Zoroastrians which serves as a foundation of Judaism combined of course with the cult of Amun (the egyptian cult of the one god). Think Progress » As New Orleans Drowned, Chertoff Was Focused On Avian Flu and Immigration
  • In ancient Egypt, charismatic prophecy apparently was not commonplace, if it occurred at all, though institutional prophecy was of the greatest importance.
  • Egyptians made the children of Israel serve with rigour, and they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field; all their service wherein they made them serve, was with rigour_. History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens
  • Egyptians used bath oils, white powders, and abrasives to clean their teeth.
  • Only a feat of brilliant decipherment by Jean-François Champollion, working in the 1820s, allowed us to understand ancient Egypt again in its own terms. Beyond the Pharaohs
  • He conquered the lands up to Carchemish, but an Egyptian-Hittite treaty signed in 1283, which divided Syria between them, frustrated the Assyrians 'westward movement. E. The Kassites, the Hurrians, and the Arameans
  • How were ancient peoples able to construct monumental Egyptian pyramids in an age devoid of the tools of modern technology?
  • No matter what happens to our nation, even when Egypt may fall on hard times, we can never be ignored.
  • In fact, the word Bible comes from the word Byblos, another Carthaginian port from which the majority of Egyptian papyrus was exported. Blowback
  • Place where the reeds grow (LXX. and Copt. read "farmstead"), the name of a place in Egypt where the children of Israel encamped (Ex. 14: 2, 9), how long is uncertain. Easton's Bible Dictionary
  • The Catechetical School of Alexandria was originated in Egypt. Egypt is the birthplace of Christian monasticism, also has experienced in the Christianity history the most serious persecution.
  • Egypt itself may not have been the oldest _nation_, but Egyptian history is certainly the oldest _history_. History of Education
  • And there is in Egypt another form of pyramid called the mastaba, which, like the Mexican, was flattened on the top; while in Assyria structures flattened like the Mexican are found. Atlantis : the antediluvian world
  • Has arbores seu arbusta Balsami fecit quondam quidam de Caliphis Aegypti de loco Engaddi inter mare mortuum, et Ierico, vbi Domino volente excreuerat, eradicari, et in argo pr鎑icto plantari: est tamen hoc mirandum, quod vbicuncque alibi siue prope, siue remote plantantur, quamuis fort� virent, et exurgant, non tamen fructificant. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
  • Cuvier, in one of a series of lectures, delivered at Paris, in the spring of last year, says, "the name chemistry, itself, comes from the word _chim_, which was the ancient name of Egypt;" and he states that minerals were known to the Egyptians "not only by their external characters, but also by what we at the present day call their _chemical characters_. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 479, March 5, 1831
  • In one of her interviews in Egypt they bring up that "she's not a pap person like people think".
  • Thomas Pynchon 's Gravity's Rainbow, the vocoder is a vehicle, a proxy for forces bigger than the freaks-Egyptian Lover, JFK-who employ it. Village Voice - The most recent 10 stories
  • In November of 1997, after a massacre in Luxor that killed fifty-eight tourists and provoked overwhelming revulsion, Egypt's Gamaa al-Islamiya halted its armed struggle. Backfire
  • The doctrine of Moses and the Prophets, identical at bottom with that of the ancient Egyptians, also had its outward meaning and its veils.
  • Kate Augusto, Danielle Capalbo and Nick Mendez report that Ayman Nour, a leading political dissident in Egypt, has decided to return to prison and finish his sentence in order to dramatize what he calls the Egyptian government's ongoing lack of respect for democratic values. Archive 2009-05-01
  • Kristen Fennimore of New Egypt, N.J., counts herself among the than 35 million Americans plagued by seasonal allergic rhinitis — also known as hay fever, a condition characterized by sneezing, stuffiness, a runny nose and the telltale itchiness in the nose, roof of the mouth, throat, eyes or ears. The nose knows: Allergy season here with vengeance
  • Muhammed Ali westernizes Egypt, asserting some independence from the Ottoman Empire. Latest Articles
  • They included an Egyptian scarab whose hieroglyphics told how Amen Hotep III of the 18th dynasty shot 102 fierce lions with his own bow.
  • One of the ornamented fragments represents a row of floreated-like decorations, and each decoration shows on its side a concentric circle, consisting of three rings, -- the whole ornament being one which is found in later Egyptian eras, not unfrequently along the tops of walls in the interior of chambers, etc.Mr. Perring represents this fragment of sculpturing from the brick Pyramid of Dashoor, in his folio work, _The Pyramids of Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1
  • Arab dreams: Qaddafi (left) spent his youth as a fervent admirer of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, the pan-Arab nationalist icon of the era.
  • And the strange thing is that in "Hypatia" or in the "Bride of the Nile" or in the "Stories of the Arabian Nights" the same characteristics stand out-the old Egypt has never changed. The Egyptian and Arabian Problems
  • West of Egypt, couscous is the farinaceous starch. “Want to do some Nasnas?”
  • An agricultural lobby is against a law to allow importing cotton from Egypt.
  • Small favas, which the Egyptians call ful hammam, or bath beans, are not only quicker to cook, they're easier to peel. Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: Ful For Love
  • The last datable examples of ancient Egyptian writing are found on the island of Philae, where a hieroglyphic temple inscription was carved in AD 394 and where a piece of demotic graffiti has been dated to 450 AD.
  • Ancient Egypt declined, was overrun and thereafter ruled by foreign powers.
  • But when Greek army and navy units mutinied in Egypt in April 1944 there were a number of deaths.
  • Exchange of notes between the government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the government of the Arab Republic of Egypt concerning ... Obama Speech: Pundits Erred; People Got It Right
  • In the regional game of water politics, thousands of years of pharaonic civilization is Egypt's royal flush. Thirsty Egypt Clings Tight To The Nile
  • RULERS OF EGYPT (1811-1953) Egypt remained nominally a province of the Ottoman Empire until Britain declared it a protectorate in 1914, but from 1805 it followed an increasingly independent course of development as a separate country. E. Egypt
  • But when Blair said that Egypt's transition had to be 'managed' – presumably by the West – so as not to jeopardise the 'peace process', he was only saying openly what Washington believed.
  • Friday's demonstration had a joyful and entrepreneurial air, with face-painters emblazoning the Egyptian flag on takers young and old, carts with fresh popcorn, and women offering hard-boiled eggs and koshary, the national dish of lentils, rice and pasta topped with a spicy tomato sauce. A month after revolt, Egyptians march to protect their victory as neighbors demand freedom, too
  • Reply to this tom smith how pervasive is sexual harassment of women in Egypt? is it something that happens in public and regularly? Global Voices in English » Egypt: Bloggers call for a fun-filled harassment-free Eid
  • Although the oil-rich kingdom has escaped the sort of unrest unleashed in Egypt, Libya or Tunisia, there have been signs of domestic discontent over high unemployment, as well as some nervousness that Saudi Arabia's Shiite Muslim minority could be inspired by the protests of their co-religionist neighbors in Bahrain. Saudi King to Return Home as Turmoil Sweeps Region
  • Egypt has had full diplomatic relations with Israel since the 1979 Camp David peace accords were signed by former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin.
  • Kalou was a part of the Ivory Coast squad that eventually finished fourth in the tournament – losing out to Essien's Ghana in the third place play-off having been eliminated by eventual winners Egypt.
  • The uppermost is written in hieroglyphics; the second in what is now called demotic, the common script of ancient Egypt; and the third in Greek.
  • Just like the rock art, Pharaonic Egyptian art emphasises the clothing and accoutrements rather than the physical features.
  • Beng Hee is in the same half as top seed Ramy Ashour of Egypt and faces a tall order to end his title drought on tour having last won at the Malaysian Open in July 2008. Nst online
  • Similar cosmological impressions stir in "gnostic" tracts dating from Sumer, Egypt, Persia, India, the Far East, Greece, Anatolia, etc., - not to mention Christianity - eg. the cosmic Christ - or - "cosmocrator". Propeller Most Popular Stories
  • Despite a government campaign to depict the victim as a drug user and thief, Egypt's independent press refused to drop the story and thousands of Egyptians staged silent vigils to demand justice.
  • Like SHE in her lonely alien gaud waiting her Egyptian lover so I wait -- bereft of 2,000 years and the bath of life. April 2007
  • Their adventurous and inquisitive nature explains their fascination with the ancient beauty and splendor of Egypt.
  • Their work has produced, however, extraordinary discoveries, including a marble odeum, or small theater, of Roman Imperial date and a contemporary bath complex, both of which have no parallels at any other site in Egypt. The Elusive Tomb of Alexander
  • The widespread ambivalence over whether the sons and daughters of Egyptian women married to foreign men should be allowed Egyptian citizenship assumed many dimensions.
  • Although the Egyptians were warlike, they found times for peaceful games.
  • Egyptian finance, as he feared panic towards the end of the term fixed; but the Ambassador said that the Chancellor attached no importance to any form of control. The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1
  • Egypt, because of its antiquity and the affinities of the hiero - glyphs to Chinese characters, was identified by some as the center from which the great postdiluvian migra - tion to the East began. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
  • The shah of Iran sought refuge in six countries before finally dying in Egypt 18 months after he left his country.
  • A foreign Newspaper wants to publish a report about the life in Egypt, So they send a female reporter to interview the common citizen in egypt. .when she arrives at cairo. .she picks a random guy, and starts her interview* 2:48AM [The B-Sides]
  • Pyramids are tombs built for Egypt's pharaohs.
  • 'World Heritage Sites' (Firefly Books, 2011) takes readers on a tour of the planet's highlights, from the famous (Egypt's pyramids) to the more far-flung (the Wrangel Island reserve in the Arctic, home to many walruses and ancestral polar-bear dens). An Armchair Tour of World Wonders
  • The sign is carried by many Egyptian deities in their mythology. Christianity Today
  • It consists of the former Egyptian embassy and a one-time annexe to Russia's embassy knocked together.
  • Inarus, the author of the revolt, was betrayed, and perished on the cross, and the whole of Egypt once more succumbed to the Persian yoke, save only that portion called the marshy or fenny parts (under the dominion of a prince named Amyrtaeus), protected by the nature of the soil and the proverbial valour of the inhabitants. Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete
  • Yet he did not know that Wake minor would be a bimbashi of the Egyptian Stalky & Co.
  • Triclabendazole, a benzimidazole compound, has recently been registered in Egypt for the treatment of human fascioliasis. Chapter 2
  • The _shadoof_, or water-hoist, is patiently worked as it has been for thousands of years; while the cylindrical hoist employed in Lower Egypt was invented and introduced in The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology
  • The structure, designed by John B. Jervis, had blank walls, huge central and corner pylons, and a blank cavetto cornice, a concave bracket that lines the edge of many ancient Egyptian temples and facades. 19th-Century Egyptian Revivalism
  • He had passed an unsettled life in continued exile up to his eightieth year; having been harassed with many contumelies and injuries, he had endured with difficulty a miserable and anxious existence, in continual trepidation; famine had driven him out of the land whither he had gone, by the command and under the auspices of God, into Egypt. Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1
  • Exports to Iran, Iraq, China, and Egypt were chopped.
  • Egypt's ruling military council denies "rumours of army forces using tear-gas cannisters against protesters," in communiqué no.83 issued on the SCAF's official Facebook page. Egypt protesters in standoff with military rulers - Wednesday 23 November
  • Aegyptus himself did not go to Argos, but sent his sons, fifty in number, as Hesiod represented. Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
  • Instead, his deputy read out a televised statement in which he avoided the word "resignation" and said Mubarak was "handing power" to the Supreme Military Council, a group of army generals who have ruled Egypt since February 11. Reuters: Press Release
  • Egypt, got bousy in the Pyramid of Cheops, ate a beef-steak in the hanging-gardens of Babylon, and listened to no sailors 'yarns at the The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg
  • The Egyptians had a bases 10 system of hieroglyphs for numerals.
  • Specially characteristic of Egypt, though not altogether peculiar to it, were the papyrus and the lotus -- the _Cyperus papyrus_ and _Nymphæa lotus_ of botanists. Ancient Egypt
  • Egypt's new government presents the policy shift as part of a general diplomatic reopening, rather than a reordering, of its regional relationships. Egyptians Court U.S. Foes
  • OSAMA RUSHDIE, FORMER EGYPTIAN MILITANT (through translator): I believe that these youngsters are aiming at two goals, one against Egyptian government and one against the West, based on the known principles of al Qaeda. CNN Transcript Apr 24, 2006
  • The word, which means "of, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing," is spelled "demotic" - without the "k. Undefined
  • As early as 2003, a proposal for a denuclearized ME supported by Egypt and Jordan was to be presented to the UN by Khatami's reformist government on Iran's behalf. Amir Madani: Perspectives of Peace in the Middle East
  • It is said to have been discovered by Pythagoras while in Egypt, but was most probably taught to him by the priests of that country, in whose rites he had been initiated; it is a symbol of the production of the world by the generative and prolific powers of the Creator; hence the Egyptians made the perpendicular and base the representatives of Osiris and Isis, while the hypothenuse represented their child Horus. The Symbolism of Freemasonry
  • The Egyptian priests and rulers were often buried with necklaces of waterlily blossoms, for the lilies symbolized resurrection from the dead.
  • Even though the Egyptians were warlike, they found time for peaceful games.
  • There were at least three separate cosmogenies in Egyptian mythology, corresponding to at least three separate groups of worshippers.
  • Its illustrations - detailed, accurate, and delightful - portray plants ranging from Aegyptian water lily to zebra-flowered arum, commonly known as jack-in-the-pulpit.
  • He reminds them likewise of the wickedness of those that were the patriarchs of their tribes, in envying their brother Joseph, and selling him into Egypt; and the same spirit was still working in them towards Christ and his ministers. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
  • According to the UNICEF, reported HIV prevalence is low in Egypt – ranging from 2,900 to 13,000 individuals - but there is very limited access to information for those most at risk and weak provisions for people living with HIV. Global Voices in English » Egypt: Stigmatized by AIDS
  • And to serve this objective, Egypt has been heavily involved in many regional and international meetings and conferences.
  • He still asseverated that it was a land of gold, and he believed that if he could get to Egypt the rest would be easy. The Life of Sir Richard Burton
  • God dispatched the angel Michael to bring her to the house of Potiphar in Egypt; according to another exegetical tradition, Dinah cast Asenath on the wall of Egypt (i.e., the wall surrounding the palace). Dinah: Midrash and Aggadah.
  • Israel and probably Egypt to direct the flotilla to dock in Israel or Egypt with a guarantee that all humanitarian cargo on board would be immediately transshipped to Gaza? Ed Koch: No Matter What the Pressure Brought to Bear on It, Israel Should Never Give Up Its Right of Self-Defense
  • There's a little bit of Walk Like an Egyptian in there, plus brass stabs, a kicking bassline and a bit played on a Theramin.
  • The P&O liner Egypt sank in the Bay of Biscay in 1922, loaded with gold, silver and coins worth £36m at today's rates.
  • In typography, a slab serif (also called mechanistic, square serif or Egyptian) typeface is a type of serif typeface characterized by thick, block-like serifs. Teddy-risation™
  • Bread was available at subsidised prices in unlimited quantities to all Egyptians.
  • But it also stymied Egypt's nascent transition towards democracy. Times, Sunday Times
  • We tailor our double mercerized 100% Egyptian cotton lisles in a classic golf cut, mindful of the necessary balance between freedom of movement and an elegant fit.
  • The literature of ancient Egypt was written on rolls of papyrus, that of ancient Mesopotamia on clay tablets, that of ancient China on strips of bamboo held together with string, and so forth.
  • The professional pundits who were parachuted into Egypt by the international media have come with them pre-cooked conclusions about "radical Islam", security threats and what it takes to ensure regional stability. Marwan Bishara: Egypt's Community Organizers Teach the World a Lesson
  • Mathayus plans to journey to Egypt to get a mystical weapon to help him defeat the evil Sargon, but quickly learns that he must get a different magic gewgaw, the sword of Damocles, in order to kill his foe. DVD Review: Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior (Blu-ray)
  • The Federal Agriculture Minister has revealed Australia will sign a framework next week for the long-term supply of wheat to Egypt.
  • I believe the first use of pubic wigs was in ancient Egypt as the only cure that they had at the time for crabs.
  • The mufti, Egypt's chief Muslim jurisconsult, serves at the pleasure of the Egyptian government.
  • From Egypt at least two boats are launched a day. Times, Sunday Times
  • I had opened it at a Gnostic Hymn that told of a certain King’s son who, being exiled, slept in Egypt—a symbol of the natural state—and how an Angel while he slept brought him a royal mantle; and at the bottom of the page I found a footnote saying that the word mantle did not represent the meaning properly, for that which the Angel gave had the exile’s own form and likeness. Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies
  • And just as you would think that we have had our fill of diseases, the deadly Plague has been reported in neighbouring Libya, poising a valid threat to the Egyptian western borders. Global Voices in English » Egypt: Between the Swine Flu and Approaching Plague
  • For historical reasons, presumably the Western domination of Egyptology, there is very little material in Arabic, other than that which is written for domestic consumption in Egypt.
  • For seven years, he had been administrative director of the Egyptian General Intelligence Service, more popularly known as the mukhabarat — the secret police. No Tee Time for Zubaid
  • CAIRO — None of the alarms and only seven out of 43 surveillance cameras were working at a Cairo museum where a Vincent van Gogh painting was stolen, Egypt's top prosecutor said Sunday. Van Gogh Painting Stolen From Museum In Egypt
  • Is, dum parit鑢 colloqueremur, interseruit aliquid dictis, per quod tandem nostra inuicem renouabatur antiqua notitia, quam quondam habueramus in Cayr Aegypti apud Melech Mandibron Soldanum, prout supr� tetigi in 7. capitulo libri. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
  • The British had knocked out radio communications but a mobile transmitter had announced, referring to the General Assembly resolution, that sixty-four nations were supporting the Egyptians.36 Eisenhower 1956
  • They struck up a friendship on their tour of Egypt.
  • As Gordon and his troops (200 Egyptian soldiers) sailed up the Nile in their _dahabeah_, the boat was often blocked by the tangled water weeds. The Story of General Gordon
  • The Egyptian hieroglyph for ‘city’ was a circle surrounding a cross; but squares and grids were always the more favoured geometry of utopian planners.
  • The sting of this title is in its tail: traditionally we have had dictionaries of Hellenic or Egyptian or Roman mythologies.
  • The scientific name is Corchorus olitorius, also called jute mallow and Egyptian spinach. 2: Vegetables and small fruits in the tropics
  • If you still haven't had your fill of culture you can give your holiday an extra dimension by sailing across the Mediterranean - to Egypt.
  • The other four perish or are murdered on the way, so that the thirty thousand annually exported, as stated by Sir Bartle Frere, represents a loss of 150,000 human beings _annually_ from the east coast alone, altogether irrespective of the enormous and constant flow of slaves to the north by way of the White Nile and Egypt. Black Ivory
  • Gretchen-One split the seconds into a thousand pieces releasing seconds as Einstein split the atom astonishing energy, unfathomable energy she destroyed that day remotely it lay in the distant timeline, she found it destroyed it with atomics with the atomic seconds thus saved mankind forever thus saved what remained of mankind a dry skeleton in an underground bunker deep in the heart of old egypt Three gretchens
  • I get lost among the cornucopias of chotkies and tat, and am somehow spilled back out to the main Jemaa El F'na Square, where one charmeurs de serpent pulls me under his black umbrella and wags his head at his Egyptian Cobra actually, Naja haje legionis, a sub-species found in southern Morocco as his associate blows his bagpipe-like melody in his ghaita. Richard Bangs: Why Would Anyone Bomb Jemaa El F'na Square in Marrakesh?
  • A contemporary Portuguese geographer recorded that Diaz realized ‘that the coast here turned northwards and north-eastwards towards Ethiopia under Egypt and on to the Gulf of Arabia, giving great hope of the discovery of India’.
  • In ancient Egypt, a cubit was the distance from the elbow to the fingertips.
  • Russia and Gabon are blatantly banning all imports of the other white meat, while Egypt has ordered the mass-execution of all of their unhallowed hoggies (although this could merely be a convenient excuse to settle an age-old Islamic grudge -- why must unsanctified flesh taste so delicious!). Warren Holstein: Preparing for the Swine Flu Apocalypse
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  • A stone floor, engraved with both Egyptian hieroglyphs and Roman numerals, occupies the ground between them.
  • Before his involvement in the Piltdown excavations, Teilhard was nothing more than a young priest with aspirations in science, who had collected fossils and pre-eminently fossil sea urchins, in Egypt.
  • No one knew how he had ended up in Egypt in the first place—but it was speculated that he might have been among a number of East Germans that Nasser had recruited to help him build ground-to-ground missiles for the army. Crossing Mandelbaum Gate
  • The hero can trace his lineage back to the Egyptians and looks exactly like an ancestor of 2000 years ago. Into Africa - a social history of the East African Safari
  • The military overthrow of the Egyptian government produced an unwelcome rise in oil prices. Times, Sunday Times
  • Nothing has yet been said about the cursive writings of the Egyptians; but they had two cursive writings – namely, the "hieratic," and the "demotic. Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
  • Despite their creativity - whether in modifying Egyptian and Near Eastern forms, or inventing the Doric and Ionic orders of architecture - Greek artists worked in established genres.
  • The Egyptians under the Hyksos pharaohs invaded the Near East, and then came to Greece.
  • Indeed, this entire area with the Egyptian and Hindu place names in the Grand Canyon is a forbidden zone - no one is allowed into this large area.
  • Also the Fathers of the Coptic Church, who usually wrote in Greek, addressed some of their works to the Egyptian monks in Coptic .
  • Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who depend on him.
  • When Egypt became a Turkish pashalic, Selim, the conqueror, compelled the representative of the Arabic Authors A Manual of Arabian History and Literature
  • I learn that one ice cream ingredient, locust bean gum, was used in ancient Egypt to seal the wrappings on mummies.
  • Today's Gregorian calendar derives from the Babylonian, Egyptian, Jewish and Roman calendars.
  • Zac talked in a monotonous drone about the hidden treasures of Egypt, the esoteric wisdom that Aristotle stole, or was it Plato, and then the Egyptians forgot everything.
  • Cagliostro," however, was unsatisfied with its rituals and devised a new system which he called Egyptian Masonry. Alchemy: Ancient and Modern
  • Said Sadek, who teaches political sociology at the American University of Cairo, said many Egyptians applaud the arrests, because they were afraid the former president and his close associates were in the process of trying to incite "a counter-revolution:""In many revolutions, if you do not take a strong stand to neutralize the leading members and leaders of the previous regime they can cause trouble and they would lead what is called the counter-revolution. Hospitalized Mubarak Officially Detained in Egyptian Corruption Probe
  • Since last century the spell of the pyramids has drawn tourists to Egypt.
  • He was transferred to FBI custody in a smooth co-operative effort between Egyptian and US authorities.
  • The ansated cross is found on many and various monuments of Egypt (Prisse d'Avennes, L'art Egyptien, 404). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
  • I have a fragment of their plaster postiche copying the close-grained Egyptian granite; the oily lustre of the quartz is so fresh and the peculiar structure of the rock, with its mica scintillations, so admirably rendered as to deceive, after two thousand years, the eye of a trained mineralogist.] Old Calabria
  • It consists of the former Egyptian embassy and a one-time annexe to Russia's embassy knocked together.
  • I consider her stiff, slender figure, Egyptian in its stubborn angularity. MOON PASSAGE
  • At that moment, Nosair and Abouhalima may have had an epiphany: back home in Egypt, suspected terrorists are dragged in and tortured. The Road To September 11
  • Sesostris, or Pharaoh Ramses II, whose mummy was unswathed in 1886 by Maspero of the Bulak Museum, and recognised as that of the greatest king of Egypt, whose grandson, Ramses III, was the last king of an ancient kingdom. when not a mere pretence, degenerated but too often into Black Magic.
  • Egyptian thorn Gabra: burquqe, burq'uq'e Giriama: msemeri, munga, muhegakululu Ilchamus: lkiloriti, lkilorit Kamba: kisemei Chapter 7
  • New Google service lets you call to tweet from #egypt: we hope @speak2tweet helps people hear from the voices of Egypt Linda Bergthold: The DeNile Revolution as Tweeted
  • Their putrescence is evident, their stagnation is unhealthy, their fermentation infects people with fever, and etiolates them; their multiplication becomes a plague of Egypt. Les Miserables
  • Many northern Red Sea dive-guides use drysuits at this time of year, but this doesn't stop British sales assistants selling lightweight shortie wetsuits to those about to visit Egypt in spring.
  • But there are records of Antony which represent him as a far more genial and human personage; full of a knowledge of human nature, and of a tenderness and sympathy, which account for his undoubted power over the minds of men; and showing, too, at times, a certain covert and "pawky" humour which puts us in mind, as does the humour of many of the Egyptian hermits, of the old-fashioned Scotch. The Hermits
  • Now the King of Egypt was always called Horus, and the priests of Edfu wishing to magnify their local god, Horus of Behutet, or Horus of Edfu, attributed to him the conquests of this human, and probably predynastic, king. Legends of the Gods The Egyptian Texts, edited with Translations
  • Across the known world, in Gaul, in Egypt, everywhere, this is the way of things. THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART TWO
  • In response to a humiliating defeat, Egypt began realigning itself to gain U.S. support.
  • The Sages tell us that the patriarch Jacob, after a 22-year separation from his son Joseph, finally went down to Egypt to see him.
  • British mercy flights had airlifted 5,000 Egyptians home by last night. The Sun
  • The carved inscriptions on the Stone included hieroglyphics - the written language of ancient Egypt - and Greek, which was readily understood.
  • While the Egyptian natives revolted in the Delta (201–200), Antiochus III attacked him in the Fifth Syrian War. G. Ptolemaic Egypt to the Roman Conquest
  • The secret arts of the Egyptians were passed orally from one generation to the next.
  • When Mr. ElBaradei returned to Egypt in February 2010 to lead an alliance of opposition groups, many of them youth-driven, the Muslim Brotherhood backed him, formalizing a partnership that had already gelled among the rank and file. 'Brothers' in Egypt Present Two Faces
  • I moved from Egypt where the climate is similar, though dustier and more polluted than in my part of Mexico. Changes in health after move to Mexico
  • Hence a whole chapter of sights and customs striking to the mind, from the pyramids of Egypt to the gibbets and dule trees of mediaeval Virginibus Puerisque and other papers
  • Since 1981 after the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, Hosni Mubarak of Egypt in charge of the political arena today.
  • Radio and television impose the Cairo-spoken language as the standard dialect of Egypt.
  • From the wrapped waistcloths of the Egyptians to the tunics, mantles and togas of the Greeks, men enjoyed untrammeled freedom.
  • Lampblack was also mixed with olive oil or balsam gum to make ink by early peoples, and Egyptians are known to have used lampblack as eyeliner.
  • They struck up a friendship on their tour of Egypt.
  • Paul Zemsky , head of asset allocation at ING Investment Management, noted that the concerns about Egypt followed a long rally that had many investors feeling the market was getting toppy. Stocks Retreat on Unrest in Middle East, GDP Report
  • One ministry official wondered whether the U.S. was under 'external pressure' to be more 'hawkish' on human rights in Egypt or whether the U.S. intervention was 'retribution' for U.S. Obama Proposed Cutting Funding To Promote Democracy In Egypt
  • Some of the Egyptians use a form of hookah called the narghile or nargeeleh -- so named because the water is contained in the shell of a cocoanut of which the Arabic name is nargeeleh. Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce
  • At the time of her death, Egypt was ruled by Libyan kings, but the high priests who ruled Thebes, which is now within the city of Luxor, were independent. Nehmes Bastet, Ancient Female Singer's Tomb Found In Egypt's Valley Of The Kings (VIDEO)
  • The Haggadah is a book which tells in fourteen steps the story of the Jewish experience in Egypt and of the Exodus and revelation of God.
  • Nevertheless, the idea has survived, gaining credence even in official circles, and continues to be invoked in any discussion, official or otherwise, of the future of the Egyptian theatre.
  • Before he entered that war, first he sent his messengers to the sultan of Egypt, requiring him not to intermeddle in that war.
  • The military history of ancient Egypt spanned three millennia, spanning the Stone, Bronze, and Iron Ages.
  • Some classic examples are Egyptian vultures, New Caledonian crows and bowerbirds.
  • A member of the militant Egyptian group al-Jihad, bin Laden's former chief of security, and before that one of his bodyguards, al-Adel is believed by intelligence officials to have assumed the role of al-Qaeda's military commander — making him No. 3 in the organization. Pharaohs-in-Waiting
  • Egyptian-style kebabs have chunks of lamb seasoned in onion, marjoram and freshly squeezed lemon juice, and roasted on a spit over an open fire.
  • David and Carol are all over the charoset, the sweet, paste-like substance that's supposed to represent the mortar of the bricks that the Israelites were slaving over in Egypt. Angela Himsel: Prepared for Passover -- Not!
  • For over 1500 years, before Akhenaton, ancient Egypt had worshipped a multitude of Gods and Goddesses each with their own particular properties and associated priests and temples. Legends of the Sun
  • I learn that one ice cream ingredient, locust bean gum, was used in ancient Egypt to seal the wrappings on mummies.
  • The Blue and White branches of the Nile travel northward from the African interior and then join to make one grand procession through Egypt, all the way to the Mediterranean Sea. Thirsty Egypt Clings Tight To The Nile

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