papyruses

• “Egyptian papyruses with beautiful ceremonial reliefs graced the walls, as did peacock feathers and small figurines and masks from the motherland.”

  Simon & Schuster: Surrender the Dark

• “He said something about a magistrate being assigned to go through the scrolls and papyruses in your office ... but looking for what?”

  Danielle Crittenden: Washingtonia: The Plot Thickens Against Carolus

• “Yes -- I did write numerous papyruses on the matter but they were all burned.”

  Danielle Crittenden: Washingtonia: The Plot Thickens Against Carolus

• “It was as though historians of an ancient empire, having been forced to rely on a handful of personal papyruses and a few royal inscriptions ... had suddenly been handed a store of material by a conscientious time-traveler ....”

  Facing Up to Stalin

• “It is mentioned in Egyptian papyruses, was well known to the Greeks, and a popular spice in Rome.”

  Simon & Schuster: On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen

• “As for solid wastes, a cantrip recovered from ancient Egyptian papyruses was to turn them instantly into stone scarabs, the sale of which as collectibles ought to help the NASA budget.”

  Operation Luna

• “He occasionally had fleeting images of himself poring over papyruses in an ancient library in Alexandria or Athens.”

  Simon & Schuster: Flash

• “There was an abundance, unheard of for those times, of objects of luxury -- rugs, glass, stuffs, papyruses, jewels, artistic pottery -- because they made all these things at”

  Characters and events of Roman History

• “The scribes fell on their faces, gathered up their papyruses quickly, and bore them away in a twinkle.”

  The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt

• “After Hiram's departure the heir shut himself up in the most remote chamber under pretext of reading sacred papyruses.”

  The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt

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