Use egypt in a sentence
Sentences starting with egypt
- Egypt attained the zenith of her power under this king, whose army, according to Diodorus (I. [10]
- Egypt will shake to its foundations--to the joy of its enemies. [11]
- Egypt had followed the lead of the Effendina. [11]
- Egypt offered an opportunity for a man like Dimsdale, and he always said that his going there was the one inspiration of his life. [11]
- Egypt goes down like the sun at evening. [11]
- Egypt felt his influence--the world knows his history. [5]
- Egypt will travel her own path. [11]
- Egypt in particular had for him always a special fascination. [4]
- Egypt has waited for you--the man who sees and knows. [11]
- Egypt is the bridge between the East and the West. [11]
Sentences ending with egypt
- Fear not for your granddaughters, sisters, playfellows and betrothed: From the earliest ages a stringent law forbade the sacrifice of Egyptian blood; strangers were to perish, or those who worshipped other gods than those in Egypt. [10]
- A few years yonder in the desert--power, glory, wealth won for Egypt, the strength of thine arms known, the piety of thy spirit proven, thy name upon every tongue--on thy return, who then should fear for Egypt! [11]
- Now only remains what thou shalt do for Egypt--" "And thou--thou wilt be left here to lay thy will upon Egypt. [11]
- It is the way in Egypt. [11]
- Dicky's invariable reply was that we couldn't, and that things weren't moving very much towards a higher civilisation in Egypt. [11]
- His own theory was that the Milky Way was an emigration of lightning bugs; and he supported and reinforced this theorem by the well-known fact that the locusts do like that in Egypt. [5]
- When the Saadat was in England there was a bad time in Egypt. [11]
- However, while Reuben was away for a little while, the brethren sold Joseph to some Ishmaelitish merchants who were journeying towards Egypt. [5]
- And this letter was addressed: "To the River of Egypt. [10]
- Quarantine regulations are very strict here on all vessels coming from Egypt. [5]
Short sentences using egypt
- Malaish, Egypt will welcome him! [11]
- Start for Egypt to-day, Bartja. [10]
- I sent you to Egypt. [11]
- Is not the Prince Egypt? [11]
- Listen, Yankee: Egypt is talking. [11]
- In Egypt it is different. [10]
- I shall remain in Egypt. [10]
- He is in Egypt. [11]
- Thou didst love Egypt, Eminence? [11]
- Official Egypt was dumfounded. [11]
Sentences containing egypt two or more times
- He was all stirred up, and says: "Hit's de lan' of Egypt, de lan' of Egypt, en I's 'lowed to look at it wid my own eyes! [5]
- The forefathers of some of these gentlemen were in old Egypt under Pharaoh--for whom they could have had no greater respect and fear than their descendants had in New Egypt for Grant or Sherman. [9]
- Nothing else had he, but of all men in Egypt he was the best instrument Nahoum could have chosen; and of all men in Egypt he was the one man who could surely help him. [11]
- All that he had been to Egypt, all that Egypt had been to him, came to him. [11]
- The ages have gone, and the rest of the world has changed, but Egypt is the same Egypt, the Nile rises and falls, and the old lean years and fat years come and go. [11]
- To go to Egypt, and--"Thee will not go to Egypt. [11]
- Egypt and David, always David and Egypt! [11]
- Poor Egypt cannot act alone--our Egypt that we love. [11]
More example sentences with the word egypt in them
- You shall stretch your arm over Egypt and it will rise to you. [11]
- I swear to you, that this very Phanes has accepted Cambyses' gold and promised not only to be his guide to Egypt, but to open the gates of your own Greek cities to him. [10]
- And having seen, you feel now that Egypt must be saved--eh? [11]
- You could not yield to the discipline of school, where we all must learn to obey if we would afterwards exercise our authority with moderation, and without any orders you left Egypt and joined the army. [10]
- There, once a year, one caravan comes, and, at the outskirts of the place unclean, leaves food and needful things for another year, and returns again to Egypt after many days. [11]
- We lived among ye, poor as ye are poor, yet rich for that Egypt was no poorer because of us. [11]
- Yet all Egypt would rise up from the mud-floor, the dourha-field and the mud-hut, and would come out to die for Mahomet and Allah--ay, as Harrik knew, as Harrik knew! [11]
- It is his work if she cleaves to the religious belief of her people, if she who is a Hellene to the last drop of blood loves Egypt, and is ready to make any sacrifice for her independence and grandeur. [10]
- It seemed too wonderful to be true--a free hand in Egypt, and under Imshi Pasha, the one able Minister of them all, who had, it was said, always before resisted the irrigation schemes of the foreigners, who believed only in the corroee and fate! [11]
- He was received with rapturous enthusiasm; his road led to the harbor, past the tents in which lay the wounded, who had been brought home to Egypt by ship, and he greeted them graciously from his chariot. [10]
- The regents, leagued with Arsinoe, spread the rumour that Cleopatra would deliver Egypt up to Pompey, if the senate would secure to her the sole sovereignty of the new province, and leave her free to rid herself of her royal brother and husband. [10]
- In Egypt, the wise man is never surprised at anything, and Kingsley had gone from experience to experience without dismay. [11]
- I fancy she will have tried to reach the sea, and to get to Egypt or possibly to Alexandria; and there--you know what the Greek city is--she will fall into utter ruin. [10]
- And tell him who is beyond and away in Egypt that old Soolsby's busy making a chair for him to sit in when the scarlet cloth is spread, and the East and West come to salaam before him. [11]
- An infamous Persian, who had lived many years in Egypt, and travelled here with us, had given them a list of all the things and actions, which we consider unclean. [10]
- Here, in Egypt, where she had first felt the stir of life's passion and pain and penalty, here, now, she lost herself in a beautiful, buoyant dream. [11]
- To be passive, when David in Egypt had asked for active interest; to delay, when urgency was important to Claridge Pasha; to speak coldly on Egyptian affairs to his chief, the weak Foreign Secretary, this was the policy he had begun. [11]
- You can fancy what universal joy the idea of a war with Egypt excited. [10]
- Justinus meanwhile explained what had brought them to Egypt, and begged Orion's assistance. [10]
- So, when they were to travel to Egypt, Martina took it for granted that Heliodora must go with them, and that the flirtation which had made her favorite the talk of the town must, in Memphis, become courtship in earnest. [10]
- Here, too, men were loading camels, which were rarely seen in Egypt, and had been introduced there only a short time before. [10]
- Near the spot we sailed from, the Holy Family dwelt when they sojourned in Egypt till Herod should complete his slaughter of the innocents. [5]
- With a curse Wassef felt in his vest for his purse, and called to the kavass--the being more dreaded in Egypt than the plague. [11]
- Yet so great was the people's love for the Queen, so high their regard for the independence of Egypt, so bitter their hate of Rome, that there was no rebellion. [10]
- But his crime was so great that, according to the law of Egypt, his nearest relations were to be seized and punished with him. [10]
- Now, Selamlik Pasha was an Egyptian, and is it not written in the Book of Egypt that no man without the most dangerous reason may refuse backsheesh? [11]
- After a pleasant voyage and a good rest, we drew near to Egypt and out of the mellowest of sunsets we saw the domes and minarets of Alexandria rise into view. [5]
- After his first visit to Egypt, Ebers was called to the University of Leipsic to fill the chair of Egyptology. [10]
- Of all the villages of Upper Egypt, from the time of Rameses, none has been so bad as Beni Hassan. [11]
- Shortly after his victory, after all the important passes and strongholds had been conquered by his troops, he set out for Egypt with his train and the vanquished princes. [10]
- His conquests brought vast sums of tribute into Egypt. [10]
- Amasis is a usurper, but the throne of Egypt is the lawful birthright of Hophra and his descendants. [10]
- But now tell us why you are obliged to leave Egypt, that we may consider whether it may not be possible to get the king's decree reversed, and so keep you with us. [10]
- And still the Uraeus snake--the asp whose bite caused almost instant death, reared its head as the time-honored emblem of this privilege, by the side of St. George the Dragon-slayer, over the palaces of the Mukaukas at Memphis, and at Lykopolis in Upper Egypt. [10]
- We'll have all Upper Egypt on the banks of the Nile waiting to see what happens to Mustapha. [11]
- The French, in undertaking to reconstruct the Suez canal, have had much to encounter from the unfriendly commercial policy of the English and their influence over the internal affairs of Egypt, but the unwearied energy and great talent of Monsr. [10]
- Who shall gainsay Turkey if she chooses to bring an army here and recover control, remove thy family from Egypt, and seize upon its lands and goods? [11]
- The Arabs are too high-priced in Egypt. [5]
- Hadrian had gone to visit these, for the remarkable pictures on the walls delighted him, but Antinous remained behind, for he had already looked at similar works oftener than he cared for, in Upper Egypt. [10]
- If I am to serve Egypt, there must be trust in me from thee, or it were better to pause now. [11]
- Hast thou naught to say but this--the fortune of Egypt burned to ashes! [11]
- I cannot bear to quit Egypt and know that there is no governor at Memphis! [10]
- It is easy to perceive that Cambyses, once lord of Egypt, will stretch out his rapacious hand over your beautiful Hellas and its islands. [10]
- He will listen to no guidance, he does mischief to Egypt, and therefore I say: Down with him from the throne! [10]
- For service done to me; and because there is none other worth serving in Egypt. [11]
- If thou goest to Kaid with thy story, I go to Egypt with mine. [11]
- You had reason to hurt me, but you had no reason for hurting Egypt, as you have done. [11]
- She went up to her, and learned that her husband and her son were both dead, the former in Syria, and the latter after his return to Egypt. [10]
- His son happened to have weighed that stone, without his knowledge, before he started for Egypt, and Othman had here a note of its exact weight. [10]
- It urged him to hasten his return to Egypt. [10]
- You would care to go to Egypt, Hylda? [11]
- I was glad to get away, and glad when we had walked through the grottoes where Eusebius wrote, and Jerome fasted, and Joseph prepared for the flight into Egypt, and the dozen other distinguished grottoes, and knew we were done. [5]
- He had started to follow the patriarch immediately after the pursuers had set out, and had only returned from Upper Egypt early on the previous day. [10]
- Still, to get to Egypt, was something, in the eyes of the unfortunate colonists, hopeless as the prospect seemed of ever getting further. [5]
- You must go to Egypt, Betty. [11]
- He was going to Egypt again in a few days; they might probably never meet again--would not, no doubt--should not. [11]
- All who had to do with Egypt gained except herself, and if she moved in revolt or agony, they threatened her. [11]
- When the order to destroy the statues of Antony and Cleopatra was issued, Octavianus gave his contemporaries another proof of his disposition to be lenient, for he ordered that the numerous statues of the Queen in Alexandria and Egypt should be preserved. [10]
- It was destined to become the national epic--the Iliad of Egypt. [10]
- I commend thee to Allah, and will bid thee farewell at sunrise--I and all who love Egypt. [11]
- It will be time to humble him, when we have used him to help us in conquering Egypt. [10]
- Remember, that at thy death, which may the gods long avert, I shall represent the existence of this glorious land as thou dost now; my fall will be the ruin of thine house, of Egypt! [10]
- She had purposely thrown him in the way of General Duncan Pasha, who, making a reputation in Egypt, had been rewarded by a good command in England and a K.C.B. [11]
- In Alexandria and throughout Egypt birthdays were celebrated as far as possible. [10]
- Now Egypt was threatened with the loss of the laborers and builders she so greatly needed, but Rui believed that they might be won back. [10]
- Thou mayst find thousands in Egypt who will serve thee at any price, and bear thee in any mood. [11]
- I should have thought that the future king of Egypt might have been less anxious to save! [10]
- It is as though the old pyramids and the whole land of Egypt were in flames. [10]
- Yet in Egypt thou wilt kill, or thou shalt thyself be killed, and thy aims will come to naught. [11]
- We cannot discuss this question philosophically here, but the law of Pythagoras, who borrowed so much from Egypt, and the contents of which are the same, speaks for our view. [10]
- In a word, this house is the centre of attraction for all Hellenic interests in Egypt, and of more importance to us politically, than our temple, the Hellenion itself, and our hall of commerce. [10]
- There is another thing in that statement that alarmed me very greatly as he states it, that he was going to "trot me down to Egypt. [7]
- The same tree they rested under when they first arrived, was there a short time ago, but the Viceroy of Egypt sent it to the Empress Eugenie lately. [5]
- But the path they had followed from their last encampment, the harbor by the Red Sea, was rugged, arid, and to them, who had grown up among the fruitful plains of Lower Egypt, toilsome and full of terror. [10]
- In former years there was a king in Egypt named Snefru, who ruled in Memphis. [10]
- Here in Egypt there is none but the great Mother Isis. [10]
- Then he told them what the Sultan of Egypt was at; also what the King of the Remote Seas was about. [5]
- Croesus had accompanied them thus far on their way from Egypt. [10]
- They will help thee to understand Egypt and the place where thou wilt be set--if so be my life is saved, and by thy hand. [11]
- He says to thee that he would lay his heart upon the altar of Egypt? [11]
- Ursula had become the wife of the Marchese Anselmo Giustiniani, by special favor of the great council, and had come with him to Egypt, whither he was sent by the Republic as Consul. [10]
- She had been the wife of her own brother, [Marriages between brothers and sisters were allowed in ancient Egypt. [10]
- In Framley, where the whole truth never came, David and Hope occasionally take from a secret drawer the Order of the Mejidfeh to look at it, and, as David says, to "learn the lesson of Egypt once again. [11]
- He stands for the United States in Egypt. [11]
- The testimony of the trustworthy George Sandys, an English traveler into Turkey, Egypt, and Syria in 1610 (afterwards, 1621, treasurer of the colony in Virginia), is to the same effect as given in his "Relation," published in London in 1621. [4]
- Getting out of the train at Heddington, he made up his mind to walk home by the road that David had taken on his return from Egypt, and he left word at the station that he would send for his luggage. [11]
- The deputation from the temple of Memphis led the procession; this temple had been founded by Mena, the first king who wore the united crowns of Upper and Lower Egypt, and Chamus, the king's son, was the high-priest. [10]
- From that time the Spartan disappeared, no one knows whither; but the Greek troops allowed themselves to be bribed by immense sums and are still in Egypt. [10]
- It was only the sound of the river--the Nile, Mother of Egypt, crooning to her disordered spirit, which kept her on her feet. [11]
- He will save the Soudan--and Egypt too. [11]
- I am Keraunus the son of Ptolemy, whose father came into Egypt with Alexander the Great, and helped to found this city, and every one knows it. [10]
- You must leave the soil of Egypt. [10]
- It is for the sake of Egypt as you think--if I understand you rightly--that you now offer me the services you have hitherto devoted to my brother's interests? [10]
- Before David left the Palace the Khedive gave him the Order of the Mejidfeh, in token of what he had done for Egypt. [11]
- The attraction of the Nile was upon him, as it grows on every one who lives in Egypt. [11]
- Trust me; before the Nile has risen again, a powerful army will have entered Egypt, to demand satisfaction for this murder. [10]
- Day by day the Muslim has loosed his hold on Cairo, and Alexandria, and the cities of Egypt. [11]
- Those days beheld the most distant lands subjugated by Rameses, and heard Egypt celebrated in the whole world as its first and greatest nation. [10]
- We went to the Milk Grotto, of course--a cavern where Mary hid herself for a while before the flight into Egypt. [5]
- He had shown the latter that Antony, in any case, was a lost man, and Egypt was in the act of dropping like a ripe fruit into the lap of Octavianus. [10]
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