The record was made by King Khufu, whom the Greeks called Cheops and who lived thirty centuries before our era. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Mankind] Reference
Each participant takes turns lying in the empty sarcophagus of King Khufu, also known as Cheops, who reigned some 4,500 years ago. From Wordnik.com. Reference
"Cheops be hanged!" returned my irreverent companion. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860] Reference
Orient -- the construction of the great Cheops Pyramid. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: May 25, 2003 - May 31, 2003 Archives] Reference
Memphis is what it was in the days of Cheops and Rameses. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873] Reference
Cheops consequently takes every measure to change the future. From Wordnik.com. [Naguib Mahfouz – The Son of Two Civilizations] Reference
Kufu I., the Cheops of the Greeks, was the first great builder. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
Thou must bite thy tongue upon facing any urge to utter Cheops. From Wordnik.com. [Overheard during the investigation of the burglary of Menkaure’s tomb | clusterflock] Reference
There is an ambition, unburied, to be sure, but as dead as Cheops. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
Euritic statues of old Egypt such as that of Khufu (Cheops) in the. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
The largest is known as the Pyramid of Cheops and is nearest Cairo. From Wordnik.com. [Birdseye Views of Far Lands] Reference
Achievement with an A as big as the Pyramids of Cheops; whereas, if. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain: A Biography] Reference
The blade was turned by a breastplate and Cheops stumbled and fell. From Wordnik.com. [Ironhand's Daughter]
The legend was that Cheops had been buried with eight or nine boats. From Wordnik.com. [Ben Sollee Learns To 'Bend'] Reference
Cheops hurled aside his longbow and pumped his arms for extra speed. From Wordnik.com. [Ironhand's Daughter]
It is the oldest ring in the world, and settles the Cheops-question. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
The pyramids of Cheops and Khafre are already closed for similar work. From Wordnik.com. [Pyramid Closes] Reference
The Cygnus was the Great Pyramid of our time and Reinhardt its Cheops. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Hole]
Originally the novel was entitled Hikmat Khufu, "The Wisdom of Cheops". From Wordnik.com. [Naguib Mahfouz – The Son of Two Civilizations] Reference
Cheops that may contain untold treasures, the Independent newspaper said. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Cheops knew that his dignity was fleeing ahead of him, but he didn't care. From Wordnik.com. [Ironhand's Daughter]
Cheops drew back on the string and sent the shaft in a long, looping flight. From Wordnik.com. [Ironhand's Daughter]
His successor, Khufru (Cheops) is best known for building the Great Pyramid at Giza. From Wordnik.com. [c. The Old Kingdom and the First Intermediate Period (1st-11th Dynasties)] Reference
And now confess that Mr. Jorullo's monument is far grander than the pyramid of Cheops. From Wordnik.com. [Wonders of Creation] Reference
The most celebrated monarch of this line was the Pharaoh whom the Greeks called Cheops. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
Peter asked, his body as tight against hers as any two stones on the Pyramid of Cheops. From Wordnik.com. [From This Beloved Hour]
Pyramid of Cheops, and that it represents more labor than 100,000 miles of ordinary railroad. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
The great pyramid of Cheops is the largest structure of any kind ever erected by the hand of man. From Wordnik.com. [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference
According to Herodotus, Cheops employed one hundred thousand men for twenty years in its erection. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
The rare fragment from a statue of King Cheops would certainly be shown if it were his head not his feet. From Wordnik.com. [Secrets From The Storeroom] Reference
Delta except Tanis and cover a wider range, commencing with Khufu (Cheops) and continuing to the thirtieth dynasty. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
This Cheops, the Egyptians said, reigned fifty years; and after he was dead his brother Chephren succeeded to the kingdom. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Herodotus] Reference
Poor Cheops is enshrined in a pyramid-shaped box, in which he is often shown and his life-history told to interested visitors. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Nature Won By Kindness] Reference
I hunkered down and climbed up the long, steep tunnel (four feet high in places) into Cheops 'burial chamber in the Great Pyramid. From Wordnik.com. [Life As A Dying Man] Reference
Arab and his family at the base of the great Cheops until next morning, and then before sunrise scale its steep steps and lofty crest. From Wordnik.com. [Shakspere, Personal Recollections] Reference
The dull-green cottage of the good Widow Bogart was twenty years old, but it had the antiquity of Cheops, and the smell of mummy-dust. From Wordnik.com. [Main Street] Reference
The Cheops pyramid, together with its furnishings, absorbed all the surplus energy produced during the lifetime of about 3 million people. From Wordnik.com. [Energy and Society~ Chapter 2~ Organic Energy and the Low-Energy Society] Reference
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