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Sentences starting with memphis

Memphis had never seen such activity. [9]
Memphis was already behind her, and the chariot was passing through a tall-stemmed palm-grove, where even at mid-day deep shades intermingled with the sunlight. [10]
Memphis had its Apis, and the Serapeum was indemnified by certain endowments which had formerly been granted to the temple at Memphis. [10]

Sentences ending with memphis

I cannot bear to quit Egypt and know that there is no governor at Memphis! [10]
Paula's wedding gift to her was the great emerald, which had meanwhile been brought back again to Memphis. [10]
But it is to be hoped that she may decide on remaining in Memphis. [10]
In former years there was a king in Egypt named Snefru, who ruled in Memphis. [10]
It lies on the ground among the ruins of ancient Memphis. [10]
We knew that the gold-mines were not far from the Red Sea and lay to the south of Memphis. [10]
They tore open the bale and packed him in the cotton, and warmed the life back into him, and got him safe to Memphis. [5]
But I cannot tell you how the mere sight of that woman angers me, how light-hearted I feel since I have broken down the bridge that connected me with this house and with Memphis. [10]
I have just received the following answer from him: We have Fort Pillow, Randolph, and Memphis. [7]
It was on purpose to avoid Heliodora, and to remain faithful to what he was and must always be to Paula, that he had gone with the senator, far from Memphis. [10]

Short sentences using memphis

Was Memphis in flames? [10]

Sentences containing memphis two or more times

But the Andrew Jackson is just in from Memphis, and the Captain tells me that he spoke the Memphis packet off Cape Girardeau, and that Clarence was aboard. [9]

More example sentences with the word memphis in them

Rustem had not yet quitted Memphis, for the first caravan, which he and his little wife were to join, was not to start for a few days. [10]
In fact, the world is old in spots--in Memphis and Boston and Damascus and Salem and Ephesus. [4]
On reaching Memphis with the wreck of his army, he found the Egyptians in glorious apparel celebrating a festival. [10]
Three weeks later, when the army was resting at Napoleon, Arkansas, a self-contained man, with a brown beard arrived from Memphis, and took command. [9]
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 in Memphis was the centre of administration of his property, and besides the offices for his private affairs were those he needed as a state official. [10]
In Memphis Hadrian was detained a whole month, for there he was expected to visit the Egyptian temples with Sabina, who had arrived before him, and to submit to many ceremonials invested with the regalia of the Pharaohs. [10]
His favorite son was already at the head of the ministers of the temple at Memphis, and he has vowed to build magnificent temples and to bring splendid offerings to the Immortals. [10]
They keep well--the vultures--And by the way, Brinsmade, the man who gave me no peace at all at Memphis was from your city. [9]
This is a very different Memphis from the one which the vanished and unremembered procession of foreign tourists used to put into their books long time ago. [5]
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]
Samuel Clemens, coming up the river on the A. T. Lacey, two days behind the Pennsylvania, heard a voice shout as they approached the Greenville, Mississippi, landing: "The Pennsylvania is blown up just below Memphis, at Ship Island! [5]
And yet, next to the necessity of waiting at Memphis for the return of her messenger, nothing tied her to the place so strongly as her interest in watching the future course of his life, at any rate from a distance. [10]
The boat was to tarry at Memphis till ten the next morning. [5]
I propose shortly to quit Memphis, but I promised you to hear your request, and in order to keep my word I have come to see you; still--as I have said--only to keep my word. [10]
On his return to Memphis, Cambyses did not shrink from personally ill-treating his wife and sister, Atossa. [10]
He had returned to Memphis the day before, and yet he had not been to see her mother, to whom he usually paid a daily visit. [10]
I should like to have seen it in that year when Thales was learning astronomy in Memphis, and Necho was organizing his campaign against Carchemish. [4]
Dame Susannah intended to find him employment at a future date on her estates, or at Memphis, the centre of their administration, as he might prove himself capable. [10]
He caused temples to be erected in most of the great cities of the kingdom, he added to the temple of Ptah at Memphis, and erected immense colossi in front of its pylons in memory of his deliverance from the fire. [10]
At the same time it was desirable to rescue as much as possible from the flames; for it would have given his enemies a fatal hold upon him, if the famous old city of Memphis should perish by his neglect. [10]
I have still three days to spend in Memphis, and then I shall turn my back forever on this stupid country. [10]
Save her if thou canst from her ravishers, and conduct her back to this temple or deliver her in Memphis into the hands of my sister Leukippa, the wife of the overseer of the harbor, named Hipparchus, who dwells in the toll-house. [10]
On hearing from them that he was at Sais, he sent the three youths thither at once, charging them, if they met Prexaspes on the way, to send him back to Memphis without delay. [10]
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]
Then he changed the subject, speaking of the grieving widow, of the decadence of Memphis, of Orion's plans for the future, and finally of the gems dedicated to the Church by the deceased Mukaukas. [10]
Not far from the spot where it lay nearest to the river was the bridge of boats connecting Memphis with the island of Rodah. [10]
Just then, too, the sacred bull at Memphis died and the priests could discover no heart in his entrails, which they interpreted as prognosticating evil to our country. [10]
Those belonging to the little Cairo line and the little Memphis line always stopped; the big Orleans liners stopped for hails only, or to land passengers or freight; and this was the case also with the great flotilla of "transients. [5]
Euergetes, brother of the king, was keeping his birthday in Memphis to-day, and all the city was to take part in the festivities. [10]
I have seen the ice in the Mississippi floating past the mouth of the Arkansas river; and at Memphis, but a little way above, the Mississippi has been frozen over, from bank to bank. [5]
To his announcement that her private fortune would remain untouched, and that she would be at liberty to reside in Memphis or to go to her own house in Alexandria, she indifferently replied that "she should see. [10]
Another thing he tells you, in a speech made at Memphis in Tennessee, shortly after the canvass in Illinois, last year. [7]
As at Memphis, so in all the principal temples of the great cities to the southward, the Imperial pair accepted the homage of the hierarchy and the honors due to divinity. [10]
He was therefore sent to Memphis and put in close confinement, with one hundred of his unhappy confederates. [10]
In Memphis I saw a statue said to be about three thousand years old, and to represent a king who built the great Pyramid, which excited my admiration in every respect. [10]
Had she not ridden more than once from Memphis to their estates by the seaboard? [10]
At the bishop's request the Vekeel had despatched a troop of horse in pursuit of the nuns, with orders to bring the fugitives back to Memphis and take their escort prisoners. [10]
Would it be possible, do you think, to have the new censer ready in time for the birthday of King Euergetes, which is to be solemnly kept at Memphis? [10]
Here is a picture of Memphis, at that disastrous time, drawn by a German tourist who seems to have been an eye-witness of the scenes which he describes. [5]
And that immovable pair are in Egypt--in Memphis! [10]
In the course of their journey they received news of all that had been happening at Memphis, and when the travellers were approaching their last night-quarters, and the Pyramids were already in sight, the governor said to little Mary: "What do you say little one? [10]
But the shepherd of the flock at Memphis was not a haughty prelate, but a very humble and pious minister. [10]
On the morning of the festival-day they started in a gorgeously decorated boat, from a point between thirty and forty miles below Memphis, favored by a good north-wind and urged rapidly forward by a large number of rowers. [10]
The remaining members of the embassy, accompanied by the crown-prince, were engaged in an excursion up the Nile to the city of Memphis. [10]
In the course of the afternoon the Vekeel rode across to the prison in Memphis. [10]
Aristarchus, the greatest of Philometor's learned contemporaries, has reported for us a conversation in the king's palace at Memphis. [10]
Since the departure of Phanes, Cambyses' behavior had become so intolerable, that Bartja, with the permission of his brother, had taken Sappho to live in the royal palace at Memphis, in order to escape any painful collision. [10]
There the ladies of Memphis came every day, with flowers, fruits, and dainties and delicacies of all kinds, and there they remained and nursed the wounded. [5]
At six o'clock of a warm, mid-June morning, while loading wood, sixty miles below Memphis, the Pennsylvania's boilers had exploded with fearful results. [5]
And that was not so very long ago, for Thebes, in the splendid streets of which Homer wandered and sang to the kings when Memphis, whose ruins are older than history, was its younger rival, was twelve centuries old when Paris ran away with Helen. [4]
Katharina, meanwhile, did not go home at once to her mother; on the contrary, she went straight off to the Bishop of Memphis, to whom she divulged all she had learnt with regard to the inhabitants of the convent and the intended rescue. [10]
His wounds were not dressed till he got to Memphis, 15 hours after the explosion. [5]
However, there was no choice, and she succeeded in proving that she had never quitted Memphis nor the house of Rufinus at the time when the Arab warriors met their death between Athribis and Doomiat. [10]
He was well mounted, and, with a few thousand faithful followers, reached the opposite bank of the Nile and made for Memphis, the well-fortified city of the Pyramids. [10]
Early in the morning Bishop Plotinus had come to inform Susannah that Benjamin, Patriarch of Alexandria, was visiting Amru on the opposite shore, and would presently honor Memphis with his presence. [10]
We had one more arrow in our quiver: a Vicksburg packet, the 'Gold Dust,' was to leave at 5 P.M. We took passage in her for Memphis, and gave up the idea of stopping off here and there, as being impracticable. [5]
The garrison of Memphis, which is devoted to Rameses, shall be sent to Nubia, and shall be relieved by troops that are faithful to me. [10]
As we neared Memphis, we began to cast about for an excuse to stay with the 'Gold Dust' to the end of her course--Vicksburg. [5]
When the great Memphis packet bore down upon him, he had, been seen from her guards, and rescued and made much of; and set ashore at the next landing, for fear her captain would get into trouble. [9]
At that time Memphis had a wharf boat, of course. [5]
Why, who in Memphis can stammer to compare with him? [10]
Send them to Memphis as soon as possible; under the protection of the queen mother, they will be in safety. [10]
Will you promise me to talk no more nonsense about flying from Memphis, or anything of the kind? [10]
Pleasant as you may think it to be in Memphis with your lover, fair heart-breaker, you will have to make way for the plaything you have so lightly tossed aside! [10]
He did not make that declaration accidentally at Memphis. [7]
When I was little he always brought me balls, dolls ninepins from Memphis and Sais; and now that I am older he teaches me beautiful new songs. [10]
I bought that little brown scamp in the market, and I shall take him with me to Corinth as a remembrance of Memphis, if he brings me back something pretty this time. [10]
But there are linen and posts to be had in Memphis. [10]
They were very likely going thither; at any rate they would not remain in Memphis, and then it would be a piece of good fortune to be introduced to the society of the capital by such people as their new acquaintances. [10]
I got your letter at Memphis as I went down. [5]
How could he leave Memphis at a time of such famine and sickness?--And Dame Joanna and her daughter! [10]
And yet they joked, and Memphis laughed (what was left of her), and recognized a bond of fellowship. [9]
But in Memphis it is the fashion to know Greek, even among the artisans. [10]
He must send it away at once; he had hastened to pack it up with the verses, with his own hand, and entrusted it to Chusar, a horsedealer's groom from Constantinople, who had brought his Pannonian steeds to Memphis. [10]
The Senator Justinus is here with his wife, the noble Martina--here in Memphis, and they beg you to visit them at once to speak of matters of importance. [10]
What I want is a man who knows my mind, and is qualified to represent me in Memphis, and be in supreme command of that important business--and I appoint you. [5]
The royal chariot in which Klea was standing, wrapped in the cloak and wearing the hat of the captain of the civic guard, went swiftly and without stopping through the streets of Memphis. [10]
Both had been in the service of the Egyptians, practising the trade of goldsmith and worker in metals for Pharaoh at Memphis. [10]
Now they were in Memphis, Orion was sitting before her, and the young man had invited her and her following of above twenty persons to stay in his house. [10]
She would remain in Memphis, at any rate for the present, under the roof of a friend of the physician's--long known to her by report--a Melchite like herself, and there await the further development of her fate. [10]
While we tarried in Memphis on our down trip, I started out to look for it, but our time was so brief that I was obliged to turn back before my object was accomplished. [5]
At the very hour when Rufinus closed his eyes, the town-watch of Memphis, led by Bishop Plotinus, appeared to claim the Melchite convent of St. Cecilia, and all the possessions of the sisterhood, in the name of the patriarch and the Jacobite church. [10]
At the same hour news had come from Memphis that the sacred bull Apis was dead. [10]
The senator reminded him that he was the natural chief of the Egyptian population in Memphis, and that, by such a scheme, he was undermining his influence with those whose leader he was by right and duty as his father's son. [10]
Her father and her husband's father had been the two leading men in Memphis, nay, in all Egypt. [10]
We had a heavy thunder-storm at Natchez, another at Vicksburg, and still another about fifty miles below Memphis. [5]
The King Hophra, hearing of her beauty and talent, sent for her to Memphis, and offered to buy her of Charaxus, but the latter had already long, though secretly, given Rhodopis her freedom, and loved her far too well to allow of a separation. [10]
These were the heads of the senate of Memphis, who had come as a deputation to ask counsel of the old sage. [10]
As soon as he was alone he sent for his secretary and said: "King Philometor has commanded that his brother Euergetes' birthday shall be kept to-day in Memphis. [10]
But now it has spread to Memphis and St. Louis and Baltimore. [5]
This night's work had torn the mast and rudder, and many a plank besides, from that foundering vessel, the town of Memphis. [10]
After the court had once more quitted Memphis and the procession was broken up, the sisters returned to their room, Irene with crimson cheeks and a smile on her lips, Klea with a gloomy and almost threatening light in her eyes. [10]
And what business had a Melchite at Memphis, under the roof of a good Jacobite? [10]
And even the Greek ministers of Serapis, settled at Memphis, were ready to follow the example of their rulers and to sacrifice to Osiris-Apis, who was closely allied to Serapis--not only in name but in his essential attributes. [10]
His disappointment was great when he found the door of the temple closed, and was forced to return to Memphis without having seen either Klea or the recluse. [10]
In a Memphis graveyard is buried a young fellow who perished at the wheel a great many years ago, in White River, to save the lives of other men. [5]
We did not get full details of the catastrophe until we reached Memphis. [5]
Send copy to General Washburn at Memphis. [7]
Residents of Memphis from the river's bank watched the pillar of smoke fade to the southward and ruminated on the fate of Vicksburg. [9]

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