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Definition of Papyruses
1. papyrus [n] - See also: papyrus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Papyruses
Literary usage of Papyruses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Science Monthly (1890)
"The Theban papyruses at Leipsic attribute the same mystical character—a kind of
seal of its Eastern origin—to alchemy. ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly (1882)
"... objects—amulets, statuettes, papyruses which are expected when read to prove
of great value, and a leather tent of a king of the twenty-first dynasty. ..."
3. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1904)
"... papyrus (assigned to the age of the Ptolemies, or, with more probability, to
that of the later Persians), and other papyruses of the Alexandrian epoch. ..."
4. History of Ancient Egypt by George Rawlinson (1881)
"... which, except in the inscriptions of unopened tombs, and in papyruses buried
in tombs, suffered at the hands of the Hyksos something like obliteration.2 ..."
5. Characters and Events of Roman History, from Caesar to Nero: The Lowell by Guglielmo Ferrero (1909)
"There was an abundance, unheard of for those times, of objects of luxury—rugs,
glass, stuffs, papyruses, jewels, artistic pottery•— because they made all ..."
6. Cotton as a World Power: A Study in the Economic Interpretation of History by James Augustin Brown Scherer (1916)
"There was an abundance, unheard of for those times, of objects of luxury— rugs,
glass, stuffs, papyruses, jewels, artistic pottery—because they made all ..."
7. Cotton as a World Power: A Study in the Economic Interpretation of History by James Augustin Brown Scherer (1916)
"There was an abundance, unheard of for those times, of objects of luxury— rugs,
glass, stuffs, papyruses, jewels, artistic pottery—because they made all ..."
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