papyrusin a sentence
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Many papyrus manuscripts were lost when the Library of Alexandria was burned.papyrus = a type of paper first used by ancient Egyptians
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Every afternoon, one of the senior counselors came around with a papyrus scroll checklist. (source)
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They want to pick through me as if I'm a boneheap, looking for scrap metal and broken pottery, for shards of cuneiform and scraps of papyrus, for curios, lost toys, gold teeth.† (source)
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Some people were cutting down the tall papyrus grass by the water's edge.† (source)
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Any information to be inserted is first written on a papyrus scroll.† (source)
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So they invented papyrus and wrote on that.† (source)
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The pointed tip of Bibwit's quill scurried against the royal papyrus.† (source)
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He took the papyri from Esther, and, reserving one, rolled them and offered them to Ben-Hur.† (source)
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That papyrus describing the postmodern condition is forty-five hundred years old.† (source)
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I said awhile ago, you may remember, that to papyri we intrusted all the secrets of our religion except one; of that I will now tell you.† (source)
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Some wore swords, others carried jars on their heads, and one of them had a roll of papyrus under his arm.† (source)
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On the facades of palaces and temples, on obelisks, on the inner walls of tombs, we wrote the names of our kings, and what they did; and to the delicate papyri we intrusted the wisdom of our philosophers and the secrets of our religion—all the secrets but one, whereof I will presently speak.† (source)
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Further over, the tall man, the man all marble bone and Egyptian papyrus stood like a dead tree.† (source)
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She went to a panel in the wall, opened it, took out a roll of papyri, and brought and gave it to him.† (source)
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Two Roman soldiers came into the shop with a mechanical drawing on papyrus of a device they wanted built by sunrise the next morning.† (source)
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Sitting cross-legged next to Caillech, David opened the Book of Thoth and touched his fingers to its thin sheets of papyrus.† (source)
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