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Dicky was dining with Fielding at the Turf Club, when a telegram came saying that cholera had appeared at a certain village on the Nile. [11]
The wing in which the Regent resided, and which we have already visited, lay away from the river; while the part of the building which was used by the royal family commanded the Nile. [10]
Mark my words: we shall have a wedding here by the Nile. [10]
A British captain was struck by a cannon-ball on the head, just as he was giving an order, at the Battle of the Nile. [6]
The dwarf pointed to the Regent, and said: "If he there wielded the sceptre, there would be fewer orphans and beggars by the Nile. [10]
Nitetis soon began to look upon the blind queen as a beloved and loving mother, and the merry, spirited Atossa nearly made up to her for the loss of her sister Tachot, so far away on the distant Nile. [10]
We had nothing to do; nothing to do but enjoy the trip; nothing to do but shove the donkeys off our corns and look at the charming scenery of the Nile. [5]
They call him the Ropemaker, because so many pass through his hands to the Nile. [11]
Beneath it sat the queen of the festival--the Bride of the Nile. [10]
It closed on the Nile. [10]

Short sentences using nile

Goolah----Porous water-jar of Nile mud. [11]

Sentences containing nile two or more times

Still, the ten thousand pounds went to David and Hope where they smilingly laboured through the time of high Nile and low Nile, and khamsin and sirocco, and cholera, and, worse than all, the banishments to the hot Siberia of Fazougli. [11]
It was the stern-wheeled tub Amenhotep, which churned her way up and down the Nile, scraping over sand banks, butting the shores with gaiety embarrassing--for it was the time of cholera, just before the annual rise of the Nile. [11]
What should she know of hospitals--she whose medicaments had been herbs got from the Nile valley and the cool Nile mud? [11]
In richness it is comparable to that of the Nile and, like that of the Nile, its fertility depends upon the water of the central stream. [4]
He knew neither amusement nor society, for every waking hour was spent in the study of the Nile and what the Nile might do. [11]

More example sentences with the word nile in them

The ferry-boat which would convey them to the gardens of Polybius started from the Agathodaemon Canal, an enlarged branch of the Nile, which connected the lake with the royal harbor and the Mediterranean; they had, therefore, to walk some distance along the shore. [10]
Dahabieh----A Nile houseboat with large lateen sails. [11]
Dahabeah----A Nile houseboat with large lateen sails. [11]
It fills them with grief and alarms; and, would you believe it--such anguish of mind, especially when the Nile is so low and there is more sickness than usual, gives rise to numberless forms of disease? [10]
Now, mention your wish; my heart is as calmly quiet as the Nile waters which are flowing by so quietly, and I am ready to hear it, be it good or evil. [10]
The scorching desert wind which, during the Spring months, so often blows through the valley of the Nile, had risen, and though the bright blue sky which had been visible by night and day was still cloudless, it was veiled by a whitish mist. [10]
It's moonlight, and we're safe enough in this high Nile, eh, Holgate? [11]
The travellers' tents were pitched one sultry evening in November, between the Nile and the limestone range, in which was arrayed a long row of tombs of the period of the Pharaohs. [10]
While our friends were enjoying their row on the Nile, Cambyses' envoy, Prexaspes, had returned from a mission to the long-lived Ethiopians. [10]
This festival: the wedding of the Bride of the Nile to her mighty and unresting spouse, on whom the weal or woe of the land depended, was to be as a flowery oasis in the waste of dearth and desolation. [10]
So long as we were on the Nile, I would not intrude my tale upon you; that ancient river has a wonderful power of compelling to silence and quiet contemplation. [10]
There a throne was the prize, and might cost the blood and life of thousands!--What did a man bring home from the churches in the Nile valley? [10]
The sacred Nile was dried up, and not a blade of verdure was green on its banks. [10]
Serapis himself indeed was a divinity introduced from Asia into the Nile valley by the Ptolemies, in order to supply to their Greek and Egyptian subjects alike an object of adoration, before whose altars they could unite in a common worship. [10]
It is like wandering up the Nile to stray among the shelves of his monumental folios. [6]
Even the Moslem viceroy, the great general Amru, came over from the other side of the Nile, with his chief military and civil officers, to pay the last honors to the just and revered governor. [10]
We'll have all Upper Egypt on the banks of the Nile waiting to see what happens to Mustapha. [11]
The sun was up on the twenty-ninth morning of the second month of the over-flow of the Nile, [The 29th Phaophi. [10]
On my way to the Nile to fetch water with which to prepare the wine-cup, I have just met a man who, in his haste, nearly ran over me. [10]
He went down to the Nile to cleanse himself, and suddenly saw Nitetis coming towards him. [10]
She is accustomed to hot weather on the Nile, and will not find our beautiful Susa too warm. [10]
At the same time, to prove to his friends how sincerely he desired to please them, he proposed that he and Justinus should immediately cross the Nile to lay his application before the Khaliff's vicar. [10]
It was the time of low Nile when all the land is baked like a crust of bread, when the creaking of the shadoofs and the singing croak of the sakkia are heard the night long like untiring crickets with throats of frogs. [11]
The Nile at this point is muddy, swift and turbid, and does not lack a great deal of being as wide as the Mississippi. [5]
In this land they stayed; and even now far up the Nile you will hear of the Two Strange People who travelled the river even to Dongola and some way back--only some way back, for a long time. [11]
On the Nile they met Paaker's boat, and Ani caused it and his own to be stopped, while he requested Paaker to visit him shortly at the palace. [10]
As they stood there, silently listening, the sound of two horses galloping swiftly away fell on their ear, and after a longer interval a prolonged whistle from the Nile and a cry of distress. [10]
I have found them in all the descriptions of the Nile valley, and afterwards often enjoyed the delicious perfume of the golden yellow flowers in the gardens of Alexandria and Cairo. [10]
The burning of their town had brought new and fearful suffering on the stricken Memphites, and notwithstanding Katharina's death the Nile still did not rise. [10]
I can see the tops of the palm-trees in the Nile, and the moon's reflection between them, glistening like a white swan. [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]
For though only the sands were before me, I seemed to watch the Nile running- -running, and thou beside it, hastening with it, hastening, hastening towards thy home. [11]
The songs of the rowers, the plashing strokes of their oars and the cries of the birds, all contributed to enliven the watery landscape of the Nile valley, which, though varied in color, was somewhat monotonous. [10]
After her came the river-god Nile, the bridegroom of the marriage, studied from the famous statue carried away from Alexandria by the Romans: a splendid and mighty bearded man, resting against an urn. [10]
You know that the Rhine has been to Germans what the Nile was to the Egyptians,--a delight, and the theme of song and story. [4]
The priests on the other bank of the Nile were Bent-Anat's counsellors, and he had heard the princess spoken of as a devout and gifted maiden. [10]
The Palace faced the Nile, which showed like a tortuous band of blue and silver a mile or so away. [11]
The attraction of the Nile was upon him, as it grows on every one who lives in Egypt. [11]
The course of the Nile was marked by a wide fringe of palms showing blue and purple, friendly and ancient and solitary. [11]
Sir S. Baker, 'The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia,' 1867. [1]
She backed from the Nile mud, lunged free. [11]
The shores of the Nile looked like two long lines of fire. [10]
Trust me; before the Nile has risen again, a powerful army will have entered Egypt, to demand satisfaction for this murder. [10]
The waters of the Nile had begun to rise again. [10]
The passage across the Nile had been accomplished but slowly, and thus the royal personages had experienced for the first time some of the many difficulties and delays which ordinary mortals must conquer to attain objects which almost fly to meet their rulers. [10]
Early that morning the news had reached the prefect that Antinous had sought his death in the Nile, and it had shocked him greatly, less on account of the hapless youth than for Hadrian's sake. [10]
But now, in the name of Osiris, tell me what can have induced you, you old ibis, to leave your warm nest on the Nile and set out on such a long journey eastward. [10]
Everything that bore the name of Egyptian was hateful or suspicious to the Roman, and it was hard to forgive this woman, born on the banks of the Nile, for having seen Julius Caesar at her feet and compelled Mark Antony to do her bidding. [10]
She would be the maiden whom the patriarch had imagined--the real, true Bride of the Nile, inspired to cast off her young life to save her people in their need. [10]
Had not even the Greek poets sung of the Nile as the most venerable of rivers? [10]
But I see the government officer coming, and with him the secretary who is to make out passports which will enable you to remain on the Nile unmolested. [10]
Instead of four, the Egyptians, as you know, have but three; in the palaces on the Nile they are countless. [10]
Naturally most of the doctors lived on the east bank of the Nile, in Thebes proper, and even in private houses with their families; but each was attached to a priestly college. [10]
Bishop John performed the ceremony, and the young couple at once took possession of the beautiful house left them by Katharina, the real Bride of the Nile. [10]
Osiris, as is the case with the fruitful principle of nature, was only apparently dead, rises from the nether regions and once more rules the blessed valley of the Nile, in concert with his wife, the bounteous earth. [10]
Bring wreaths for the bride of the Nile, bring flowers for her marriage. [10]
I figure, however, that you've put some money in Egypt, so to speak, and what happens to this sandy-eyed foundling of the Nile you would like to know. [11]
It seems probable that the settlers, following traders, penetrated to the Niger valley from the valley of the Nile as early as the third or fourth century of our era. [4]
But she knew that the Nile would flow backwards before she could dissuade him from keeping his promise to the abbess, so she forced herself to preserve at any rate outward composure. [10]
Never had vessels taken such risks on the Nile before, never had pilots trusted so to instinct, for there were sand- banks and ugly drifts of rock here and there. [11]
The admiral would take his fleet to the Sebennytic mouth of the Nile. [10]
The Nile beyond surrounded an island, where flourished the well-kept sacred grove of Anion. [10]
Summoning all his strength he rushed down to the Nile, flung the bag in, and then with a beating heart, but as he imagined without the slightest evidence of guilt, remained standing on the shore. [10]
Bartja and Sappho stood at the helm and gazed towards Naukratis, until the shores of the Nile vanished and the green waves of the Hellenic sea splashed their foam over the deck of the trireme. [10]
The Nile was still narrow when you last found your way to me, and now it has been falling some time. [10]
The Mukaukas was still in his room while his wife with Susannah and her daughter, Mary and her governess, were enjoying the air and chatting in the open hall looking out on the garden and the Nile. [10]
The hard white stars, the cold blue sky, the far-off Libyan hills in a gold and opal glow, the smell of the desert, the deep swish of the Nile, the Song of the Sakkia. [11]
The great and splendid Zeus of the Greeks has been transformed into Serapis here, on the banks of the Nile, and has become a god of the nether world. [10]
A row of Sphinxes led from the Nile to the surrounding wall, and to the first vast pro-pylon, which formed the entrance to a broad fore-court, enclosed on the two sides by colonnades, and beyond which stood a second gate-way. [10]
And William William Sowerby, He has a tender smile, Which will bring him in due season To the waters of the Nile And the cheery crocodile! [11]
The evening being so fine, she determined on taking a pleasure-trip on the Nile with her guests. [10]
The Nile begins slowly to rise early in June; between the 15th and 20th of July it suddenly swells rapidly, and in the first half of October, not, as was formerly supposed, at the end of September, the inundation reaches its highest level. [10]
I returned long since from the journey to the Nile, for which I was preparing while correcting the proof-sheets of the third edition, and on which I can look back with special satisfaction. [10]
The foaming animal shied at Bartja who was lying in the road, threw his rider and dragged him into the Nile, whose waves became blood-red. [10]
At last, however, she was obliged to put a good face on the matter, for the Empress herself expressed so decidedly her wish to take Balbilla with her to the Nile, that any resistance would have been unduteous. [10]
I dreamed that she was lying on the shores of the Nile, and complained to me of pain in the breast. [10]
Shall I give Sharif to the Nile? [11]
Philippus resolved to set off without delay and, as the way led past that mouth of the Nile, met his son on the voyage. [10]
But could the senate make the Nile rise, or stay the pestilence, or prevent the dates dropping from the palm-trees? [10]
Here sat a seller of sugar cane; there wandered, clanking his brasses, a merchant of sweet waters; there shouted a cheap-jack of the Nile the virtues of a knife from Sheffield. [11]
A cold shiver seized me, and I was on the point of flying from the spot, when a fierce hurricane came from the East, struck the tree and overthrew it, so that its spreading branches were cast into the Nile. [10]
She had often seen the architect in Alexandria, and when they parted she had allowed him to promise to follow her and the Empress, and to escort them at any rate for a part of their voyage up the Nile. [10]
Would it not seem as though Fate desired to help us to bring to our blessed Nile the offering which for so many centuries has been withheld? [10]
Boats' captains and sailors--were hurrying down to the shore of the Nile to avail themselves of the northeast breeze to travel southwards against the current, and sails were being hoisted and anchors heaved, to an accompaniment of loud singing. [10]
The crews of rowers and steersmen who were attached to priestly brotherhoods or noble houses, were enjoying a rest till the parties they had brought across the Nile drew towards them again in long processions. [10]
Now speaking, now rocking their bodies to and fro, in the evening sunlight, they sat and watched the Nile in flood covering the wide wastes of the Fayoum, spreading over the land rich deposits of earth from the mountains of Abyssinia. [11]
The bounteous earth, robbed of her productive power, seeks this beloved husband with lamentations in the cooler regions of the north, where the Nile discharges his waters. [10]
Mizraim had seen removal follow upon removal, and the dark Nile flowed on gloomily, silently, faithful to the helpless ones tossed into its bosom. [11]
If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile. [5]
Even my usually quick tongue was paralyzed like yours, when I took my first night-journey on the Nile. [10]
Through this Hellenic portico he reaches Egypt, from thence passes on to Persia and returns finally to the Nile. [10]
In the twilight poor Muss betook himself to the Nile through the grove of Hathor, with his perilous burden. [10]
I loved the poet, yet I must restrain him, else he will break down all barriers, like the Nile when it swells too high. [10]
In passing the Place de la Concorde, two objects in especial attracted my attention,--the obelisk, which was lying, when I left it, in the great boat which brought it from the Nile, and the statue of Strasbourg, all covered with wreaths and flags. [6]
A bright-hued humped ox and an ass were turning the wheel which raised cooling waters from the Nile and poured them into a large tank from which they flowed through narrow rivulets to irrigate the beds. [10]
The Nile had overflowed its bed. [10]
At the cafes on the Nile, Dicky himself had seen strange gatherings, which dispersed as he came on them. [11]
Those in authority on the Nile knew how to choose soldiers whose duty it was to exercise pitiless severity against the defenceless. [10]
Her mind dwelt on the little mud hut and the onion field, and she saw down by the foreshore of the river the great khiassas from Assouan and Luxor laden with cotton or dourha or sugar-cane, their bent prows hooked in the Nile mud. [11]
The Pyramids lay on the left bank of the Nile, in the silver moonshine, massive and awful, as if bruising the earth beneath them with their weight; the giant graves of mighty rulers. [10]

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