Nilometer
Example Sentences
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Lanchester concludes that “words longer mean what they once did. It is not a process intended to deceive, but, like the Nilometer, it confines knowledge to a priesthood—the priesthood of people who can speak money.”
From Forbes ● Aug. 7, 2014
This is the isle of Rodda, on the bank of which Moses was found, and where you may see the Nilometer.
From The Rulers of the Mediterranean by Richard Harding Davis
Now they stood again in the first hall, and, pointing to the Nilometer, Amram said, "Famine!"
From Historical Miniatures by August Strindberg
The steamer was so helplessly deserted by the water, that she would have served for a Nilometer upon which to mark the level, like the rock at Assouan.
From Ismailia by Sir Samuel White Baker
He looked uneasily at the Nilometer, in which the water had sunk.
From Historical Miniatures by August Strindberg
