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papyrus
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  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • The word glowed and vanished, and a butter knife lay on the papyrus.†   (source)
  • He came up with a strip of papyrus and showed the old inventor some diagrams and notes.†   (source)
  • She unrolled the papyrus and read the poem aloud in a deliberate tone.†   (source)
  • Langdon looked down and realized he was holding Saunière's papyrus.†   (source)
  • He picked the most obvious one and copied it on the papyrus—the symbol for fire.†   (source)
  • The vinegar was streaming now, and Teabing pictured the papyrus dissolving within.†   (source)
  • There was a small papyrus scroll attached to the chain.†   (source)
  • He glanced at the papyrus in Marie's hand, and then back at Rosslyn.†   (source)
  • The papyrus was so brittle, I was afraid to touch it.†   (source)
  • The picture wriggled, peeled itself off the papyrus, and flew away.†   (source)
  • Langdon motioned to the papyrus in her hand.†   (source)
  • I know sheep's vellum was more durable and more common in those days, but it had to be papyrus.†   (source)
  • Zia showed him how to form the hieroglyph, and Carter wrote it on the papyrus.†   (source)
  • Carter uncapped the cylinder and unrolled the papyrus.†   (source)
  • The papyrus verse was locked safely at its core—minus the shattered vial of vinegar.†   (source)
  • Carter sighed, wiping off his hair with a bit of scrap papyrus.†   (source)
  • I unfolded the papyrus; the hieroglyphs were as clear as a nursery school primer.†   (source)
  • "We've got wax, some toilet papyrus, an ugly statue—"†   (source)
  • Zia brought us to a wooden table and spread out a long, blank papyrus scroll.†   (source)
  • Bloodstained Blade ran his fingers over a long stretch of papyrus map.†   (source)
  • Further over, the tall man, the man all marble bone and Egyptian papyrus stood like a dead tree.†   (source)
  • I tossed my stuff on the dresser—the papyrus scroll, the wax mini-Carter, my magic bag, my wand.†   (source)
  • I could feel magic humming in the papyrus like a low-voltage current.†   (source)
  • The end of the papyrus was a jagged line, as if it had been ripped.†   (source)
  • There was the papyrus scroll, just like the one we'd found in Brooklyn.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • If any water gets on that papyrus-†   (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)
  • Before the papyrus was inserted into the cryptex's compartment, it was rolled around a delicate glass vial.†   (source)
  • If someone attempted to force open the cryptex, the glass vial would break, and the vinegar would quickly dissolve the papyrus.†   (source)
  • Without blinking, Langdon reached into the breast pocket of his tweed coat and carefully extracted a delicate rolled papyrus.†   (source)
  • He'd found a papyrus that was quite long, and most of the text on it seemed to be lines of hieroglyphs.†   (source)
  • Strangely, though, the paper around the vinegar was not the customary delicate papyrus but rather, vellum.†   (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)
  • Inside each case was a papyrus scroll.†   (source)
  • That's not papyrus," Teabing said.†   (source)
  • Thoth unfolded the papyrus pages.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
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  • 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)
  • 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)
  • The papyrus dropped into my lap.†   (source)
  • The papyrus was still steaming.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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.). descendants shall suffer.†   (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)
  • Ilderim rolled the papyrus carefully, restored it to its envelopes, and became once more all energy.†   (source)
  • Ben-Hur next unrolled a scrap of papyrus yellow as a withered mulberry leaf.†   (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)
  • …of the "Latter Day Saints," which, adopted not only in America, but in England, 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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