1) pyramids. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002
...pyramids A group of huge monuments in the Egyptian desert, built as burial vaults for the pharaohs and one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The pyramids...
2) Pyramids, battle of. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Pyramids, battle of, July, 1798, during the French Revolutionary Wars, battle fought between the French forces under Napoleon Bonaparte and the Egyptian Mamluks led...
3) pyramids. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002
...pyramids A group of huge monuments in the desert of Egypt, built as burial vaults for ancient Egyptian kings. The age of pyramid building in Egypt began about 2700...
4) Pelters of Pyramids by Richard Henry Horne. Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed.
1895. A Victorian Anthology, 1837-1895
...What art thou more than we? 5 Next in a boat they floated up the Nile Singing and drinking, swearing senseless oaths, Shouting, and laughing most derisively At all...
5) pyramid, structure. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...though the term has also been applied to similar structures in other countries. Egyptian pyramids are square in plan and their triangular sides, which directly face...
6) 3338. Edward Young. 1683-1765. Bartlett, John, comp. 1919. Familiar
Quotations, 10th ed.
...Edward Young (1683–1765) QUOTATION: Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself....
7) 54079. Shevardnadze, Eduard. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER:54079 QUOTATION:Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland. ATTRIBUTION:Eduard Shevardnadze (b. 1927),...
8) 15699. Dali, Salvador. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...QUOTATION:New York, you are an Egypt! But an Egypt turned inside out. For she erected pyramids of slavery to death, and you erect pyramids of democracy with the vertical...
9) 38734. Melville, Herman. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER:38734 QUOTATION:Pyramids still loom before me-something vast, indefinite, incomprehensible, and awful. ATTRIBUTION:Herman Melville (1819-1891), U.S. author....
10) Seven Wonders of the World. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...(i) Of Antiquity. 1 The Pyramids first, which in Egypt were laid; Then Babylon s Gardens for Am ytis made; Third, Mauso lus s Tomb of affection and guilt; Fourth,...
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