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  • But the name Orus to me seems to have been of Egyptian original.

    A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) Jacob Bryant 1759

  • ` ` I know he feels great right now, '' Gamecocks defensive lineman Orus Lambert said.

    USATODAY.com - Scores 2005

  • We have remarked that, anciently, all went by threes — Isis, Osiris, and Orus, the three first Egyptian divinities; the three brother gods of the Greek world — Jupiter, Neptune, and Pluto; the three Fates, the three

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • The Gamecocks have made a habit this year of scraping by - and it looked like it might happen again when Orus Lambert blocked a go-ahead field goal try in the fourth quarter.

    USATODAY.com - Scores 2005

  • “Bias, are you all right?” asks Orus standing next to me.

    Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981

  • According to Orus, who is three sheets to the wind, Achilles had shouted — “Wait a minute, Agamemnon, you most grasping man alive” — pointed out that the Argives, still another name for the Achaeans, the Danaans, the damned Greeks with so many names, were in no position to hand over more booty to their leader now.

    Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981

  • He was going to sit down once more, when the cold, horrid lips of the dead man said to him, “Carrick-fhad-vic-Orus, ” and he remembered the command of the good people to bring the corpse with him to that place if he should be unable to bury it where he had been.

    Teig O’Kane and the Corpse 1921

  • Agelaus; Aesymnus, Orus and Hipponous steadfast in battle; these chieftains of the Achaeans did Hector slay, and then he fell upon the rank and file.

    The Iliad of Homer 1898

  • They further add, that Typho married Nepthys; and that Isis and Osiris, having a mutual affection, loved each other in their mother's womb before they were born, and that from this commerce sprang Aroueris, whom the Egyptians likewise call the elder Orus, and the Greeks Apollo.

    Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life 1895

  • Egypt, cultivated the acquaintance of the priests, and learnt wisdom from their mouths; I penetrated into their temples and mastered the sacred books of Orus and Isis; finally, I took ship to

    Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 of Samosata Lucian 1895

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