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- noun Plural form of
ankh .
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Examples
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Behind this Nilus advances yet another Nilus, carrying three "ankhs" tied together in his right hand – an "ankh," evidently, for each of the royal names, i.e., the family-name, throne-name, and Ka-name of the infant Amenhotep.
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The elephants seemed to have heard the signal also; they shook their massive heads, and, without the provocation of the ankhs, Sukhdar and Surat Sundar rumbled through the mud wall as though it had been a mere chiffon curtain and smashed their heads into each other.
Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010
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The ankhs that the mahouts held were also of solid gold, gleaming in the sunlight.
Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010
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Their mahouts sat balanced and proud upon their irritable charges, goaded them with their ankhs to kneel before the Emperor, to raise their trunks to their foreheads in an imitation of the taslim.
Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010
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He let his hair—what there was of it—go long, grew a beard, wore turtlenecks, caftans, ankhs, and beads, whatever the head shops had to offer, although he never neglected his first love, Cutty Sark.
STAR PETER BISKIND 2010
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The ankhs that the mahouts held were also of solid gold, gleaming in the sunlight.
Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010
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The elephants seemed to have heard the signal also; they shook their massive heads, and, without the provocation of the ankhs, Sukhdar and Surat Sundar rumbled through the mud wall as though it had been a mere chiffon curtain and smashed their heads into each other.
Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010
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Their mahouts sat balanced and proud upon their irritable charges, goaded them with their ankhs to kneel before the Emperor, to raise their trunks to their foreheads in an imitation of the taslim.
Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010
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Their mahouts sat balanced and proud upon their irritable charges, goaded them with their ankhs to kneel before the Emperor, to raise their trunks to their foreheads in an imitation of the taslim.
Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010
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The ankhs that the mahouts held were also of solid gold, gleaming in the sunlight.
Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010
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