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
It was my desire to see the Nilometer on the island, and I did see it, but not until after I had sent the boatman to buy a candle.
From A Trip Abroad by Don Carlos Janes
A great book is the Nilometer which measures intellectual life as the original Nilometer measured the life and fertility of the land of Egypt.
From Toasts and Forms of Public Address for Those Who Wish to Say the Right Thing in the Right Way by William Pittenger
Nilometer, nī-lom′e-tėr, n. a gauge for measuring the height of water in the river Nile: any river-gauge—also Nī′loscope.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
Not far from the spot mentioned above is the famous Nilometer that Moses looked upon many a time.
From Birdseye Views of Far Lands by James T. (James Thomas) Nichols
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