Egyptian

Examples

• Egyptian Crooked Stick, Precursor of Modern Plough. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• From Egyptian tomb-paintings. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They were afraid of Egyptian plague and cholera. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It was probably chiefly Egyptian. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The king of Judah became an Egyptian tributary. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He would be night-free, like an Egyptian, steadfast in perfectly suspended equilibrium, pure mystic nodality of physical being. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• You remember what the Egyptian priest said to Solon,—'You Greeks are always children. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• I swapped horses with Mohammed, the kingly-looking Egyptian who is our Ferguson's lieutenant. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Whether their fanaticism for number was owing to the influence of Egyptian priests or had an Oriental origin, it gave to the Pythagoreans an enthusiasm for pure mathematics. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Iron was not employed before the period of contact with Egyptian civilization. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• It was copied by a priest about 1600 B..-the classical period of Egyptian culture--from a document seven hundred years older. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• He spoke very handsomely of my late tractate on the Egyptian Mysteries,--using, in fact, terms which it would not become me to repeat. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Then he looked up; she had not moved any more than if she had been some great Egyptian statue. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Our most satisf actory data in reference to Egyptian medicine are derived, however, from the Ebers papyrus. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Early Egyptian paintings show this going on. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The Egyptians were the earliest and greatest agriculturists, and from them the art was learned by the Greeks. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The Greeks derived their musical instruments from the Egyptians, and the Romans borrowed theirs from the Greeks, but neither the Greeks nor the Romans invented any. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Suffice it to say that Cr?sus made a defensive alliance both with the Lacedemonians and the Egyptians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• About 5000 B.C., or earlier, the traces of these primitive peoples cease, and the true Egyptians appear on the scene. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The Chinese, the Hindoos, Egyptians, and other Orientals had Invented Both Arts. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The Egyptians even developed an apparatus for telling the time by reference to the stars--a star-clock similar in its purpose to the sundial. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Like the Egyptians, the Babylonians were not greatly concerned at a change of rule to Macedonian from Persian. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• By t he Egyptians, also, was carefully observed the season of the year at which certain stars and constellations were visible at dawn. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Of course we were besieged by a rabble of muscular Egyptians and Arabs who wanted the contract of dragging us to the top--all tourists are. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The Ebers papyr us shows that the Egyptians knew of the development of the beetle from the egg, of the blow-fly from the larva, and of the frog from the tadpole. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• In the Ateuchus or sacred beetle of the Egyptians, they are totally deficient. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• It appears to have been unknown to the Assyrians and Egyptians, or if known, its knowledge confined to their wise men, as it does not appear in any of their monuments. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It is not certain whether the Neolithic pastoral people who left those remains were the direct ancestors of the later Egyptians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• For the Egyptians, geometry was concerned w ith surfaces and dimensions, with areas and cubical contents; for the Greek, with his powers of abstraction, it became a study of line and angle. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The Egyptians, the Hebrews and the Chinese, and Oriental nations generally had locks and keys of ponderous size. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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