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  • Some people were cutting down the tall papyrus grass by the water's edge.†  (source)
  • Any information to be inserted is first written on a papyrus scroll.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • He took the papyri from Esther, and, reserving one, rolled them and offered them to Ben-Hur.†  (source)
  • That papyrus describing the postmodern condition is forty-five hundred years old.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • Some wore swords, others carried jars on their heads, and one of them had a roll of papyrus under his arm.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • Further over, the tall man, the man all marble bone and Egyptian papyrus stood like a dead tree.†  (source)
  • She went to a panel in the wall, opened it, took out a roll of papyri, and brought and gave it to him.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • 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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