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
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 Nichols, James T. (James Thomas)
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 Peck, Ellen Mary Hayes
All these things were regulated by the indications of the Nilometer.
From Xerxes Makers of History by Abbott, Jacob
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 Pittenger, William
