16 Verbs to Use for the Word hieroglyphics
Within fifty years this ancient and beautiful language has been so perseveringly studied that we know something of the people by whom it was once spoken,even as Egyptologists have revealed something of ancient Egypt by interpreting the hieroglyphics; and Chaldaean investigators have found stores of knowledge in the Babylonian bricks.
At least, I have turned over for you a few grand and strange pages in the book of nature, and taught you, I hope, a key by which to decipher their hieroglyphics.
Learned men are now trying to read the hieroglyphics of the East, the records of an unknown history.
It was raining; parasols leaked into my shoes, soaking water-proofs embraced me, and monstrous brogans crushed my feet to chaos; then, umbrellas punched my eyes, out, jabbed holes in my hat, and wrote hieroglyphics all over my shirt bosom, while baskets of meat were deposited in my lap, and the intruding tail of a codfish roughly slapped my face a dozen times.
No sooner did the distiller observe those lurid hieroglyphics upon the barrels than he uttered a shout of delight.
On the same principle, the Egyptians represented Osiris, their chief deity, by the symbol of an open eye, and placed this hieroglyphic of him in all their temples.
The Bey and his mamelukes also took diversion in spoiling the appearance of a very nice young horse; they daubed hieroglyphics upon his shoulders and loins, and dyed the back where the saddle is placed, and the three legs below the knee with henna, making the other leg look as white as possible.
"Here is Ahkhenatenor Khu-en-aten, as the authorities here render the hieroglyphics."
As he raised its cover a small electric bulb illuminated the interior, focussing on the paper-covered face of a mechanical writing device, upon which a pencil with a broad flat lead operated by a metal arm was tracing characters resembling the hieroglyphics of the Chinese.
"Make a mark on me with your white pencil," she would say, offering her dark cheek to Reuby, who would scrawl hieroglyphics all over it from hair to chin.
One could study Egyptian hieroglyphics or the Assyrian arrow-head inscriptions.
He would trace little hieroglyphics with his finger, as if he were writing a word, sweep an argument aside, bring his hands together as though he were shaping something.
tive pupil; but it was very difficult for his untutored mind to master these, to him, puzzling hieroglyphics.
I drew hieroglyphics with the point of the mauve parasol in the soft moss beneath our feet.
" He erased his hieroglyphics, and proceeded leisurely to prepare his simple supper.
As I explained the hieroglyphics the announcement of the word, which they saw could have come to me only through the wire, would often create a deep sensation of delighted wonder; and much do I now regret that I did not take notes of these interviews, for it would be an interesting record of distinguished names and of valuable remarks.