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- proper noun A set of ancient
pyramidal -shaped constructions inEgypt
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Examples
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Getting from the autopista to the Pyramids is not easy.
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The first glimpse that most travellers now get of the Pyramids is from the window of the railway carriage as they come from Alexandria; and it is not impressive.
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Immediately outside the gates, towards the Pyramids, is the town of Gazeerah, a most dirty, overcrowded place, which therefore, of course, suffered most severely during the late epidemic of cholera.
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Since the Pyramids are the only surviving original Wonder of the Ancient World, it was decided that it was unfair for them to be competing with the proposed New Wonders.
wunderbar 2007
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Since the Pyramids are the only surviving original Wonder of the Ancient World, it was decided that it was unfair for them to be competing with the proposed New Wonders.
Archive 2007-07-01 2007
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Cephren; and hence, he adds, "they commonly call the Pyramids after
Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 James Young Simpson 1840
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This entrance into the Pyramids is a terrible task, which should be undertaken by no lady.
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Expeditionary Force was associated in the mind of the average citizen with the idea of Pyramids and flesh pots.
The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 F. L. Morrison
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Egypt, and the Pyramids were a'building, men sowed just the same corn that you sow to-day.
The Life of Duty, v. 2 A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles H. J. Wilmot-Buxton
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He called the Pyramids to witness the valor of the French.
A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. Carlton J. H. Hayes 1923
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