21 examples of cheops in sentences

Sunit is as undimmed as the sun that looked down on the completion of Cheops.

I fancy that Cheops did not lay every brick in his pyramid with his own hand;

He had before given me one of his own calculations; he says if there were no "war, pestilence, or famine," and one pair of human beings had been put upon the globe at the time of Cheops, they would not only now fill the earth, but if they stood upon each other's heads, they would reach a hundred times the distance to Neptune!

The Pyramid of Cheops, at Memphis, covers a square whose side is seven hundred and sixty-eight feet, and rises into the air nearly five hundred feet.

Under the orders of her father, the daughter of Cheops made herself a harlot that she might contribute by her body to the building of the pyramid.

While endeavoring, in broken expressions, to describe my feelings to my friends, who sat looking upon me incredulouslynot yet having been affected by the drugI suddenly found myself at the foot of the great Pyramid of Cheops.

In Egypt herds of gazelles were so kept before the days of Cheops.

"Ere yet Cheops built the Pyramids, or Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, yea, before the first sensation tingled in the first nerve made out of the dust, the beginnings were laid of these events of this day and hour, and, in particular, of that one which may well astonish you and grieve youviz., that the locket is intended for and inscribed to Agnes Ainslie.

The three chief pyramids are usually ascribed to Suphis (or Cheops), Sen

Amasis and Cheops how can time forgive.

The night before, in walking over the plain, I saw distinctly the whole of the Strasbourg Minster, whose spire is the highest in Europe, being four hundred and ninety feet, or but twenty-five feet lower than the Pyramid of Cheops.

I creep over the vast features of Rameses, on the face of his rock-hewn Nubian temple; I scale the huge mountain-crystal that calls itself the Pyramid of Cheops.

It rose according to our estimation 600 feet above the level of the water, and, from the point we viewed it, presented a pretty exact outline of the great pyramid of Cheops.

I often smile as I pass it on the train; for it was here, for the edification of those who might never be able to visit the Valley of the Nile, that I planned to erect a pyramid that should out-Cheops the original.

Menes was the Horus Aha; Cheops was the Horus Mejeru; Pepy II was the Horus Netery-khau.

The chief name of the king was his Horus name; Menes was the Horus Aha, Cheops the Horus Mejeru.

Some members of the royal family of Cheops were buried in swathed wrapping, lying extended on the left side with the knees bent.

CHEOPHREN, king of Egypt, brother and successor of Cheops; built the second great pyramid.

CHEOPS, king of Memphis, in Egypt, of the 4th dynasty; builder of the largest of the pyramids about 3000 B.C. CHEPSTOW (4), a port on the Wye, Monmouthshire, 17 m. N. of Newport; with a tubular suspension bridge, and where the tides are higher than anywhere else in Britain.

The night before, in walking over the plain, I saw distinctly the whole of the Strassburg minster, whose spire is the highest in Europe, being four hundred and ninety feet, or but twenty-five feet lower than the Pyramid of Cheops.

Once he had been in Egypt and had stood in a corridor of Cheops' pyramid.

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