egyptian-looking

Updated: May 28, 2025

These two Egyptian-looking guardians at the doors, with the figures kneeling by them, suggest plainly enough the futility that goes with so much of our struggling in the world. So often people reach the edge of their goal without really getting what they want." The Court of the Universe

John D. (John Daniel) Barry - The City of Domes : a walk with an architect about the courts and palaces of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, with a discussion of its architecture, its sculpture, its mural decorations, its coloring and its lighting, preceded by a history of its growth

The appearance of the town is diminished in size, but increased in beauty, by the many stately trees which are planted throughout it, while here and there a huge screen of some musjid rears its Egyptian-looking crest, and gives to the town an appearance peculiar to itself; Jaunpore is, in fact, the only city in India in which this style of architecture prevails.

Laurence Oliphant - A Journey to Katmandu: (the Capital of Napaul), with The Camp of Jung Bahadoor;: including A Sketch of the Nepaulese Ambassador at Home

Yet philologists have discovered what appears to be a far-off link between the Berber and Semitic languages, and the Chleuhs of the Draa and the Souss, with their tall slim Egyptian-looking bodies and hooked noses, may have a strain of Semitic blood.

Edith Wharton - In Morocco

The bell is gone now, and no Moslem rovers are in sight. The maidens we had just passed would be safe if there were. My brigand disappears round the tower; and I follow down steps, by a white wall, and lo! a house, a red stucco, Egyptian-looking building, on the very edge of the rocks. The man unlocks a door and goes in. I consider this an invitation, and enter.

Charles Dudley Warner - Saunterings

We were told that we might take the stream, by those familiar with it, if we could find good Indians willing to go with us. One called "Shorty" was brought forward to negotiate with us. He has the same dwarfed appearance I have noticed in the old women, and that strange, Egyptian-looking face and air.

Caroline C. Leighton - Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California

The bell is gone now, and no Moslem rovers are in sight. The maidens we had just passed would be safe if there were. My brigand disappears round the tower; and I follow down steps, by a white wall, and lo! a house, a red stucco, Egyptian-looking building, on the very edge of the rocks. The man unlocks a door and goes in. I consider this an invitation, and enter.

Charles Dudley Warner - The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner

The bell is gone now, and no Moslem rovers are in sight. The maidens we had just passed would be safe if there were. My brigand disappears round the tower; and I follow down steps, by a white wall, and lo! a house, a red stucco, Egyptian-looking building, on the very edge of the rocks. The man unlocks a door and goes in. I consider this an invitation, and enter.

Charles Dudley Warner - The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 2