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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)
  • First I had to travel through a swampy patch where papyrus and reeds crept up to the road.†   (source)
  • Finally, the curiosity of finding gold instead led him to break it open—only to find thirteen papyrus books inside, bound in gazelle leather.†   (source)
  • Sitting cross-legged next to Caillech, David opened the Book of Thoth and touched his fingers to its thin sheets of papyrus.†   (source)
  • Hizzoner talks about making papyrus like the Egyptians but I'll believe it when I see it.†   (source)
  • Every afternoon, one of the senior counselors came around with a papyrus scroll checklist.   (source)
  • That papyrus describing the postmodern condition is forty-five hundred years old.†   (source)
  • Minor sundering and cohesion of the papyrus.†   (source)
  • He came up with a strip of papyrus and showed the old inventor some diagrams and notes.†   (source)
  • I could feel magic humming in the papyrus like a low-voltage current.†   (source)
  • She unrolled the papyrus and read the poem aloud in a deliberate tone.†   (source)
  • The papyrus verse was locked safely at its core—minus the shattered vial of vinegar.†   (source)
  • The end of the papyrus was a jagged line, as if it had been ripped.†   (source)
  • Langdon looked down and realized he was holding Saunière's papyrus.†   (source)
  • She pulled a scroll from her bag—a cylinder of papyrus much thicker than the ones we'd collected.†   (source)
  • My right hand itched from holding the papyrus scroll so long.†   (source)
  • I know sheep's vellum was more durable and more common in those days, but it had to be papyrus.†   (source)
  • There was the papyrus scroll, just like the one we'd found in Brooklyn.†   (source)
  • He glanced at the papyrus in Marie's hand, and then back at Rosslyn.†   (source)
  • I tossed my stuff on the dresser—the papyrus scroll, the wax mini-Carter, my magic bag, my wand.†   (source)
  • The vinegar was streaming now, and Teabing pictured the papyrus dissolving within.†   (source)
  • Langdon motioned to the papyrus in her hand.†   (source)
  • There was a small papyrus scroll attached to the chain.†   (source)
  • Further over, the tall man, the man all marble bone and Egyptian papyrus stood like a dead tree.†   (source)
  • Carter uncapped the cylinder and unrolled the papyrus.†   (source)
  • The picture wriggled, peeled itself off the papyrus, and flew away.†   (source)
  • I unfolded the papyrus; the hieroglyphs were as clear as a nursery school primer.†   (source)
  • Zia brought us to a wooden table and spread out a long, blank papyrus scroll.†   (source)
  • Zia showed him how to form the hieroglyph, and Carter wrote it on the papyrus.†   (source)
  • He picked the most obvious one and copied it on the papyrus—the symbol for fire.†   (source)
  • Bloodstained Blade ran his fingers over a long stretch of papyrus map.†   (source)
  • We've got wax, some toilet papyrus, an ugly statue—†   (source)
  • The papyrus was so brittle, I was afraid to touch it.†   (source)
  • The word glowed and vanished, and a butter knife lay on the papyrus.†   (source)
  • Carter sighed, wiping off his hair with a bit of scrap papyrus.†   (source)
  • Some of the pages looked like papyrus or vellum torn from ancient books; others were obviously from newer texts; mixed in were photographs, drawings, maps, and schematics; all of them appeared to have been glued to the wall with meticulous care.†   (source)
  • Diagramma was printed on sedge papyrus.†   (source)
  • But papyrus is perishable.†   (source)
  • If any water gets on that papyrus—†   (source)
  • John Barth discusses an Egyptian papyrus complaining that all the stories have been told and that therefore nothing remains for the contemporary writer but to retell them.†   (source)
  • The muted, yellow papyrus left no doubt in Langdon's mind as to its age and authenticity, but excluding the inevitable fading, the document was in superb condition.†   (source)
  • The shopper also managed to find some supplies for our magic bags—blocks of wax, twine, even some papyrus and ink—though I doubt Bes explained to her what they were for.†   (source)
  • Without blinking, Langdon reached into the breast pocket of his tweed coat and carefully extracted a delicate rolled papyrus.†   (source)
  • The papyrus dropped into my lap.†   (source)
  • Before the papyrus was inserted into the cryptex's compartment, it was rolled around a delicate glass vial.†   (source)
  • The papyrus was still steaming.†   (source)
  • Strangely, though, the paper around the vinegar was not the customary delicate papyrus but rather, vellum.†   (source)
  • They didn't seem to consume the papyrus or hurt Sadie; but when she tried to shake out the fire, ghostly white flames leaped to the nearest display case and raced around the room as if following a trail of gasoline.†   (source)
  • If someone attempted to force open the cryptex, the glass vial would break, and the vinegar would quickly dissolve the papyrus.†   (source)
  • Sadie and I had to combine forces to get past the perimeter, but with a little concentration, ink and papyrus, and some tapped energy from our godly friends Isis and Horus, we managed to pull off a short stroll through the Duat.†   (source)
  • Sophie could see it contained photographs of what appeared to be magnified passages of ancient documents—tattered papyrus with handwritten text.†   (source)
  • Vinegar and papyrus, Sophie thought.†   (source)
  • As the sound of heavy footsteps thundered down the hall toward the Chapter House, Langdon quietly rolled the papyrus and slipped it back in his pocket.†   (source)
  • That's not papyrus," Teabing said.†   (source)
  • If the dials were properly aligned with the password, then one of the ends would slide off, much like a lens cap, and she could reach inside and remove the rolled papyrus document, which would be wrapped around the vial of vinegar.†   (source)
  • No dissolving papyrus.†   (source)
  • Papyrus.†   (source)
  • The stuff was so thick and rough, it made me wonder if the poor Egyptians had had to use toilet papyrus.†   (source)
  • Sunlight fell in shafts to the forest floor, washing over glades where nettles and papyrus sparkled with wild violets.†   (source)
  • The blood beaded like droplets of quicksilver, skittering across the pages until the papyrus absorbed them.†   (source)
  • Astaroth's expression was almost reverent as he slid a nail beneath the Book's cover, opening it delicately to peer at the very first sheets of papyrus.†   (source)
  • Inside each case was a papyrus scroll.†   (source)
  • He'd found a papyrus that was quite long, and most of the text on it seemed to be lines of hieroglyphs.†   (source)
  • It was more like a map than a book, unfolding into four parts until I was looking at a wide, long papyrus scroll with writing so old I could barely make out the characters.†   (source)
  • Thoth unfolded the papyrus pages.†   (source)
  • A few minutes later, Zia led us through an open-air market—if you can call anything "open-air" underground—with dozens of stalls selling weird items like boomerang wands, animated clay dolls, parrots, cobras, papyrus scrolls, and hundreds of different glittering amulets.†   (source)
  • Papyrus.†   (source)
  • Osiris, Judge of the Dead (papyrus, Egypt, c. 1275 B.C.).†   (source)
  • Khnemu Shapes Pharaoh's Son on a Potter's Wheel While Thoth Marks Life Span (papyrus, Ptolemaic, Egypt, L. third—first century B.C.).†   (source)
  • I had not seen my father so gleeful since he found two pages of second-century papyrus between the leaves of a Lombardic breviary.†   (source)
  • The Doubles of Ani and His Wife Drinking Water in the Other World (papyrus, Ptolemaic, Egypt, c. 240 B.C.).†   (source)
  • Ben-Hur next unrolled a scrap of papyrus yellow as a withered mulberry leaf.†   (source)
  • Ilderim rolled the papyrus carefully, restored it to its envelopes, and became once more all energy.†   (source)
  • He took the papyri from Esther, and, reserving one, rolled them and offered them to Ben-Hur.†   (source)
  • All was harmonious; nothing was too much alive; speech hardly amounted to a breath; the newspapers, agreeing with the salons, seemed a papyrus.†   (source)
  • Faria then drew forth from his hiding-place three or four rolls of linen, laid one over the other, like folds of papyrus.†   (source)
  • Norway and Sweden, and Germany, counts many artisans, as well as men engaged in the liberal professions, among its members; how a colony was established in Ohio, a temple erected there at a cost of two hundred thousand dollars, and a town built at Kirkland; how Smith became an enterprising banker, and received from a simple mummy showman a papyrus scroll written by Abraham and several famous Egyptians.†   (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)
  • The sheik replaced the papyrus in its envelopes, and, tucking the package under his girdle, remounted the horse.†   (source)
  • With a cunning twinkle of the eyes, he took the money, and gave the party in exchange a leaf of papyrus.†   (source)
  • The papyrus from which it was taken by the priests of Philae was wrested from the hand of the heroine herself.†   (source)
  • The receiver made haste to plunge the papyrus into the basin; then, holding the dripping leaf in the sunlight, he would be rewarded with a versified inscription upon its face; and the fame of the fountain seldom suffered loss by poverty of merit in the poetry.†   (source)
  • Instead of speech with a Pythia or a Sibyl, they will sell you a plain papyrus leaf, hardly dry from the stalk, and bid you dip it in the water of a certain fountain, when it will show you a verse in which you may hear of your future.†   (source)
  • Then he said, while the papyrus rolled itself together, "A man with six hundred talents is indeed rich, and may do what he pleases; but, rarer than the money, more priceless than the property, is the mind which amassed the wealth, and the heart it could not corrupt when amassed.†   (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)
  • 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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