papyrusin a sentence
-
Many papyrus manuscripts were lost when the Library of Alexandria was burned.
papyrus = a type of paper first used by ancient Egyptians
- 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)
- 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)
- The smaller statue's head peeled open in four sections like the top of a missile silo, and sticking out of its neck was a yellowed papyrus scroll.† (source)
- Wherever anyone puts pen to paper or hands to keyboard or fingers to lute string or quill to papyrus.† (source)
- Some wore swords, others carried jars on their heads, and one of them had a roll of papyrus under his arm.† (source)
- So they invented papyrus and wrote on that.† (source)
- The pointed tip of Bibwit's quill scurried against the royal papyrus.† (source)
- It was all so good, these blowing quiet October nights and the library waiting inside now with its green-shaded lamps and papyrus dust.† (source)
- In papyrus reeds and desolate flatlands on the western shore of Lake Victoria facing the Sese Islands, there is a fishing village called Kasensero.† (source)
show 86 more with this conextual meaning
- 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)
▲ show less (of above)