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Gautier embarked on board the steamship "Moeris," of the
The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt Th��ophile Gautier 1841
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Kar-En-Helit, Vessel of Moeris (Male human ghost wizard 18)
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"I hope that JMS remains, but if Marvel will not allow him to tell his stories, I will understand if he chooses to leave," Moeris writes on the Marvel message board.
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There will come a stage in our progress when we shall have facilities for executing works as great as any of these -- more useful than the pyramids -- not less magnificent than the sea of Moeris.
Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject E. N. [Editor] Elliott
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Soon after the introduction of Christianity, St. Mark is said to have founded a society called Therapeutes, who dwelt by the lake Moeris in
Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World Anonymous
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About the year 305 of the christian computation, St. Anthony being persecuted by Dioclesian, retired into the desert near the lake Moeris; numbers of people soon followed his example, joined themselves to the Therapeutes;
Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World Anonymous
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When, therefore, Herodotus describes the reservoir of Moeris as formed for the control of the river floods of Nile-nourished Egypt, and of another constructed by Nebuchadnezzar at Sippara, of 140 miles in circumference, we must make allowances.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887 Various
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Moeris pastores et Meliboeus erant, dulcia iactantes alterno carmina uersu, 100
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At evening, at the hour when we say good-night, Moeris kissed me, I know not whether really or in a dream; for very clearly I now have the rest in mind, all she said to me, and all that she asked me of; but whether she kissed me too, I doubt and guess; for if it is true, how, after being set in heaven, do I go to and fro upon earth?
Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology Anonymous 1902
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To guard against excessive waste of water, they built mighty dams and dug reservoirs, among which the artificial lake Moeris occupied three hundred square kilometers of surface and was fifty-four meters deep.
The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt Boles��aw Prus 1879
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