Usage examples (16)

• He occasionally had fleeting images of himself poring over papyruses in an ancient library in Alexandria or Athens.
• He said something about a magistrate being assigned to go through the scrolls and papyruses in your office ... but looking for what?
• As for solid wastes, a cantrip recovered from ancient Egyptian papyruses was to turn them instantly into stone scarabs, the sale of which as collectibles ought to help...
• It was as though historians of an ancient empire, having been forced to rely on a handful of personal papyruses and a few royal inscriptions ... had suddenly been handed...