Rosetta Stonein a sentence
- They call the program "Rosetta Stone" because of the Rosetta Stone's importance in understanding language.
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Mr. Avery said it was written on the Rosetta Stone that when children disobeyed their parents, smoked cigarettes and made war on each other, the seasons would change: Jem and I were burdened with the guilt of contributing to the aberrations of nature, thereby causing unhappiness to our neighbors and discomfort to ourselves.
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Rosetta Stone = famous engraved stone from 196 BC Egypt
- He was to be our own private Rosetta stone.† (source)
- The hieroglyphs predated Bernini by centuries, and hieroglyphs had not even been decipherable until the Rosetta Stone was discovered.† (source)
- "The Rosetta Stone," I said.† (source)
- Books thrown open, flashes of experience, marginal notations in all the hieroglyphs of emotion, more complex than the Rosetta Stone.† (source)
- You would have thought she was entrusting me with the Rosetta Stone.† (source)
- I did not wonder where Mr. Avery gathered his meteorological statistics: they came straight from the Rosetta Stone. (source)
- When the Rosetta Stone shattered, it let out five gods, right?† (source)
- Our dad stood in front of the Rosetta Stone with his back to us.† (source)
- Apparently the Rosetta Stone turned up unharmed.† (source)
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- But instead of throwing the stick, he touched it to the Rosetta Stone.† (source)
- Young lady, the Rosetta Stone was the key to deciphering hieroglyphics!† (source)
- I sat up, dazed, and spit a piece of Rosetta Stone out of my mouth.† (source)
- When Dad was standing in front of the Rosetta Stone, he said, 'Osiris, come.'† (source)
- X Open—the same symbol Dad had used at the Rosetta Stone.† (source)
- The blue light turned to searing white, and the Rosetta Stone exploded.† (source)
- In front of us, where the Rosetta Stone had been, stood a smoking, sheared-off pedestal.† (source)
- And two more hieroglyphic symbols burned blue against the surface of the Rosetta Stone.† (source)
- He simply didn't realize how much power the Rosetta Stone contained.† (source)
- I unleashed the gods from the Rosetta Stone.† (source)
- And your father breaking the Rosetta Stone?† (source)
- The guy who deciphered hieroglyphics from the Rosetta Stone.† (source)
- Desjardins was in London the night your father broke the Rosetta Stone, wasn't he?† (source)
- The curators will soon check their vaults and discover that the Rosetta Stone miraculously survived the explosion.† (source)
- But he never got the chance to use it because, according to what Sadie has told me, it appears that Julius released five gods from the Rosetta Stone.† (source)
- Then an Englishman named Thomas Young proved that the Rosetta Stone's three languages all conveyed the same message.† (source)
- Why did Dad break the Rosetta Stone?† (source)
- Pieces of the Rosetta Stone had exploded outward with such force that they'd embedded themselves in the columns, the walls, the other exhibits.† (source)
- Then again at the British Museum, when your father was foolish enough to use the Rosetta Stone itself.† (source)
- It had started when I looked at those blue glowing words Dad had drawn on the Rosetta Stone and I knew what they meant.† (source)
- Rosetta Stone in a billion pieces.† (source)
- But basically my dad wanted to release some gods for reasons I don't quite … Maybe he thought, I'll just pop down to the British Museum and blow up the Rosetta Stone!† (source)
- Rosetta Stone destroyed.† (source)
- He broke the code of hieroglyphics using the Rosetta Stone—the first man outside the House of Life to do so.† (source)
- Saying "various jobs," I give out the Rosetta stone, so to speak, to my entire life.† (source)
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