They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.

They are passed away as the swift ships as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.

Nothing but grass and papyrus as far as you can see.

Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water?

Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?

The Greek alphabet borrowed from the Phoenician letters along with light, and cheap, papyrus effected the transfer of power from the priestly to the military class.

A female leopard came out of the sedge grass and went straight up the same tree that he was in.

In that he looks very informal. He is cross legged, seated on the ground. He's holding a papyrus scroll.

She remained in the sedge grass and the male having done his bit he thought for the day moved up onto the termite mound and promptly went to sleep.

In 2007, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to examine Arabic papyri from the first Islamic century (seventh century CE) at collections in Paris, Vienna, Oxford, and Heidelberg.

When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river's bank.

And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.

that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus on the waters, saying, Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide!

That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!