pharaoh

• “Similarly, the term pharaoh was named after the residence of the ruler.”

  The Chimaira chimera

• “The title pharaoh (per ` o, “Great House”), previously used to refer to the royal palace, was now used to refer to the king himself.”

  e. The New Kingdom and the Third Intermediate Period (18th-24th Dynasties)

• “The pharaoh was a builder but his most famous pyramids were not what he wanted.”

  Newsweek: The Greening Of Chicago

• “Now, for the first time he is being called pharaoh by opponents.”

  CNN Transcript Nov 5, 2007

• “BOETTCHER: He also referred to President George Bush as a modern-day pharaoh, which is heavily weighted in the Koranic text, a lesson that tells of the failure of arrogance and how the pharaohs fell because they thought they were equals to God.”

  CNN Transcript Nov 13, 2002

• “That serpent which is sucking at the blood of the people, the property of the nomarchs, and the power of the pharaoh is the Phoenician!”

  The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt

• “Do as may please thee, but remember that the device of a pharaoh is a serpent, and a serpent is silence and discretion.”

  The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt

• “Egypt was weak; that her pharaoh was the shadow of a ruler.”

  The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt

• “In consequence of this the Egyptians in the days of their greatness formed as it were one person, in which the priestly order performed the role of mind, the pharaoh was the will, the people formed the body, and obedience gave cohesion.”

  The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt

• “And so "pharaoh" Mubarak was shoved into retirement, and the people rejoiced.”

  The Huffington Post: William Astore: An Egyptian Revolution? It's Still Too Soon to Say

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