Mentu

Mentu heard without comment till the story was done.

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Mentu set his teeth, his hands clenched and his whole figure seemed to denote intense physical restraint.

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Meneptah erected no more monuments after the eighth year of his reign, for in that year Mentu, the murket, died.

The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Elizabeth Miller

In spite of the favorite's vigorous protests Mentu overturned the tiny heap of earth and discovered therein the lapis-lazuli signet.

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Meneptah, in memory of Mentu and his artist son who had served his king so well, set up no sculptor nor any murket in his place.

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Next I visited the home of Mentu and asked if Rachel were there, but the old housekeeper had never heard of such a maiden.

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It was the morning after the Passover, and Kenkenes, the son of Mentu, was the only Egyptian first-born that lived to see it break.

The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Elizabeth Miller

Marsh of the Discontented Soul to leave a writing on the tomb for the son of Mentu.

The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Elizabeth Miller

But, alas! the third time I looked, it was because I heard sounds of combat, and I saw that the son of Mentu and several men were fighting.

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Furthermore, the young man had spoken glowingly and at length on the future of Israel and the Promised Land, and Mentu told himself that he might visit Kenkenes one day in that new country.

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