mastaba

How To Use mastaba In A Sentence

• And after he had descended upon the ground, he sat a little while upon the mastabah. Nights 537-566. The Third Voyage of Es-Sindibad of the Sea.
• Although a parapet from inside, outside this spoil creates the stub of a wall or 'mastaba' the sitting bench as it has become known in Arab Egypt.
• When they had mounted sixty he knew that they must have come close to the top of the original _mastabah_, and close to the first stage of the pyramid. Brood of the Witch-Queen
• Opposite the Mastabah was a firepan for pipes and coffee Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
• The back of each cupboard is fitted with tiers of little drawers and pigeon-holes, and in front is a kind of matted stone step, called a mastabah, which serves for seat and counter. A Thousand Miles Up the Nile
• Now, Saxonberg, I must tell you about that Egyptian tomb called a mastaba. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
• “mastabah” or stone bench, is often a tall platform and in mosques is a kind of ambo railed round and supported by columns. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• Then he arose resolutely from that mastabah, and began to search for us, while we fled from him to the right and left, and he saw us not; for his sight was blinded; but we feared him with a violent fear, and made sure, in that time, of destruction, and despaired of safety. Nights 537-566. The Third Voyage of Es-Sindibad of the Sea.
• One late afternoon I was sitting with friends on their mastaba, the brick bench attached to the front of the house where much of the neighbourhood's socializing takes place.
• Together with his wife Nofret, he was buried in a large mastaba at Medum, where their superb statues were discovered in 1871.