Nilometer
Example Sentences
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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 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
Citadel and Mosque of Mahomet Ali The old Nilometer, for measuring the depths29 of the Nile, which was erected in 716, is of interest.
From Travels in the Far East by Ellen Mary Hayes Peck
The priests proclaimed how the flood stood on the Nilometer, and the husbandman made corresponding preparations for a scanty or an abundant harvest.
From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by John William Draper
The moon-god Khons bears in his hands either a palm-branch or "the Nilometer."
From Moon Lore by Timothy Harley
