"Great pyramid" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... tribes that dwelt here hemmed in by enemies. There was about it the vague semblance of an altar, and in the brush near it we saw the black remains of a mighty paepae like that giant Marai of Papara in Tahiti, which itself seemed kin to the great pyramid temple of Borobodo in Java. Melancholy memorials these of man, who is so like the gods, but who passes like a leaf ...
— White Shadows in the South Seas • Frederick O'Brien
... thrown up to commemorate a fete. That Napoleon knew full well the value of the scientific discoveries of his time is clear from the following conversation with a learned Mohammedan, which took place in the great pyramid of Cheops:— ...
— Wonderful Balloon Ascents - or, the Conquest of the Skies • Fulgence Marion
... also caught up Miss Digges's information; and, breaking off abruptly an account of the Great Pyramid, which had been naturally introduced by the mention of the Thebais, and echoing the fair alarmist's words, "hope they won't fight," he rushed upon the parade, and bustled along as hard as his sturdy supporters could carry him. If the gravity of the ...
— St. Ronan's Well • Sir Walter Scott
... of thing," Malone said. "There's lots about astral bodies and ghosts, ectoplasm, Transcendental Yoga, theosophy, deros, the Great Pyramid, Atlantis, Mu, norns, and other such ridiculous pets. That's just silly, as far as I can see. But what they have to say about parapsychology and psionics as such does ...
— Supermind • Gordon Randall Garrett
... Cheops: an Egyptian king, about 2900 b.c.; built the great pyramid, which is called by ...
— Selections From American Poetry • Various
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