Pyramids
['pɪrəmɪdz]
Examples
- You shall walk up the pyramids of Egypt! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- On the palm were three little pyramids of black, doughy clay. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- We repined that the pyramids had outlasted the embalmed body of their builder. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Only by the use of large and strong ropes could they have moved the massive stones seen in their pyramids and temples. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- At the distance of a few miles the Pyramids rising above the palms, looked very clean-cut, very grand and imposing, and very soft and filmy, as well. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- If we were lying in sight of the Pyramids of Egypt, they would not come on deck until after breakfast, now-a-days. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It is more famous than the Parthenon; it is older than the Pyramids. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- We are about starting to the illustrious Pyramids of Egypt, and the donkeys for the voyage are under inspection. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He landed his troops hurriedly, and the battle of the Pyramids made him master of Egypt. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Pyramids of skulls were his particular architectural fancy; after the storming of Ispahan he made one of 70,000. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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