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Updated: June 13, 2025
So, taking advantage of a feast or holiday, they marched out for a fight. The men of Ombos Avere beaten and put to flight; but one of them, stumbling as he ran away, was caught and torn to pieces, and, as Juvenal adds, eaten by the men of Tentyra.
"'You see, she picked her words carefully, 'Ombos was so queer about that horrible Albertus Magnus of his. He had made me promise never to part with it and it seemed to me stupidly perhaps that I owed him that to see that his only wish was carried out to the letter. Otherwise I should never dare to have stayed here.
"Margot looked up at me, and a strange melancholy transformed her face.... She was at a loss for words.... 'Poor Ombos oh, poor, cranky Ombos, she muttered. 'One morning I found him dead in his room, with all his wonderful, brown, powdery-looking books. He was leaning on a table over an old volume that he was fond of.... And then the doctors came.
"It was ten o'clock when I rose to leave, Ombos and Margot came out to the front to say good night: my last glimpse, as I walked down the pavé street, was of Margot a bare-headed figure, with wistful grey eyes, calm with the mysterious wisdom of pure womanhood. She waved her dainty lace handkerchief to me. "That was the last of Ombos in the flesh.
And always he leant upon the rail, and he watched the creeping felucca, and he wished that he were in it, going to see his friend. What was he going to do? Again he began to pace the deck. It was not very far to Assouan Gebel Silsile, Kom Ombos, then Assouan. It was some hundred and ten kilometres. The steamers did it in thirteen hours.
But, taking the circumstances into consideration, the whole train of events points to the fact that Ombos had in some occult way passed his ethereal body into that statue, and for that very reason he was unable to rest quietly in his grave." "You will continue to live in the house at Abbot's Ely, of course," said Duckford. Crabbe shook his head. "Never!
Mrs. Armine frowned. Armant Esneh Kom Ombos and then Asw
Professor Vaini left among his papers a work of two thousand pages in which he clearly demonstrated that it was possible for a spiritualized body to retain a modified life practically for ever. Any doctor will tell you the hair and nails of a dead person will often grow for years after.... "Ombos turned his glittering eyes on me a moment inquisitively.
As I walked down the little pavé street something I couldn't account for began to sweep over me; it was not merely that the presence of Ombos had fascinated me; there was something else. There was something that stirred in my heart a thing which you will not understand. If you had known Ombos you might have understood.
"And I shall soon be going up the river to Armant, and from Armant to Esneh, and from Esneh to Kom Ombos and Asw
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