Nilometer

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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

A great book is the Nilometer which measures intellectual life as the original Nilometer measured the life and fertility of the land of Egypt.

From Toasts and Forms of Public Address for Those Who Wish to Say the Right Thing in the Right Way by Pittenger, William

From Old Cairo we crossed over to the Island of Roda, to see the Nilometer.

From What We Saw in Egypt by Anonymous

He looked uneasily at the Nilometer, in which the water had sunk.

From Historical Miniatures by Strindberg, August

All these things were regulated by the indications of the Nilometer.

From Xerxes Makers of History by Abbott, Jacob