Nilometer
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Lanchester concludes that “words longer mean what they once did. It is not a process intended to deceive, but, like the Nilometer, it confines knowledge to a priesthood—the priesthood of people who can speak money.”
From Forbes ● Aug. 7, 2014
The Nilometer is in a square well 16 feet in diameter, having in the centre a graduated octagonal column with Cufic inscriptions, and is 17 cubits in height, the cubit being 21-1/3 inches.
From The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela by Benjamin of Tudela
All these things were regulated by the indications of the Nilometer.
From Xerxes Makers of History by Jacob Abbott
The steamer was so helplessly deserted by the water, that she would have served for a Nilometer upon which to mark the level, like the rock at Assouan.
From Ismailia by Sir Samuel White Baker
Now they stood again in the first hall, and, pointing to the Nilometer, Amram said, "Famine!"
From Historical Miniatures by August Strindberg
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