He occasionally had fleeting images of himself poring over papyruses in an ancient library in Alexandria or Athens.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharp Edges] Reference

He said something about a magistrate being assigned to go through the scrolls and papyruses in your office ... but looking for what?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Danielle Crittenden: Washingtonia: The Plot Thickens Against Carolus] Reference

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 the NASA budget.    From Wordnik.com.  [Operation Luna]

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 a store of material by a conscientious time-traveler.    From Wordnik.com.  [Facing Up to Stalin] Reference

It is full of papyruses on which are written the details of the case.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt] Reference

Catholic monks throughout the centuries copied the original papyruses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Father Joe] Reference

In later times it was transformed into a library with the capacity to store around 12.000 papyruses.    From Wordnik.com.  [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference

The scribes fell on their faces, gathered up their papyruses quickly, and bore them away in a twinkle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt] Reference

After Hiram's departure the heir shut himself up in the most remote chamber under pretext of reading sacred papyruses.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt] Reference

We provide for that by winding the mummies in papyruses, on which are written sentences, and by putting the 'Book of the Dead' in their coffins.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt] Reference

Egyptians have been moving along the Nile, each of them bearing a brick and a bucket, while the vile Hittites would be masters going around with clubs and papyruses.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt] Reference

There was an abundance, unheard of for those times, of objects of luxury -- rugs, glass, stuffs, papyruses, jewels, artistic pottery -- because they made all these things at.    From Wordnik.com.  [Characters and events of Roman History] Reference

He visited Edfu, whose temple had pylons a hundred and fifty feet high, and which possessed an immense library of papyruses, and on the walls of which were written and depicted, as it were, an encyclopedia of the geography, astronomy, and theology of that period.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt] Reference

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 (think of the splendid reliefs on the walls of the Temple of Ramses III at Medinet Habu, or in the mortuary complex of Pepi II in South Saqqara, which give detailed but factually untrue accounts of the victories of these Egyptian rulers), had suddenly been handed a store of material by a conscientious time-traveler.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Terrors] Reference

"Perhaps in our sacred papyruses there is mention that in old times there were prophets among us who had the gift of suspending themselves in the air; so the desires of Mefres do not astonish priests nowadays.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt] Reference

Thou art groping among papyruses, but.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt] Reference