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
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
He looked uneasily at the Nilometer, in which the water had sunk.
From Historical Miniatures by August Strindberg
Now they stood again in the first hall, and, pointing to the Nilometer, Amram said, "Famine!"
From Historical Miniatures by August Strindberg
From Old Cairo we crossed over to the Island of Roda, to see the Nilometer.
From What We Saw in Egypt by Anonymous
