In this also lay gold and metal in heaps; while shrines containing garments, and amphoras filled with oil and wine, etc.
They still keep, hidden below the pyramids of Cheops, a few hundred amphoras of the strong wine which intoxicated the initiated at the orgies of joy and love.
She was like a wild cat, but her wine was good; and at parting she gave me five amphoras to take on board my ship.
Two women and two men sat about this pipe slowly filling their amphorasof Grecian form, while donkeys waited patiently in the background bearing panniers for the water-vessels on their backs.
There were generally three or four donkey-boys with cantaros, and a crowd of women with amphoras waiting their turns to wedge their pots beneath the small trickle which ran from the nozzle of the pipe.
Then came unclean wagers; they buried their heads in the amphoras and drank on without interruption, like thirsty dromedaries.
She would go and take the hanging amphoras by the neck; she would cool her bosom beneath the broad fans, or perhaps amuse herself by burning cinnamomum in hollow pearls.
The throne hadamphoras at the sides and a sunflower in diamonds behind it.
The wines of Cyprus and of Samos had been flowing from vermillionamphoras since the beginning of the feast, and flowed still, carrying away in their perfumed waves the senses of the guests.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "amphoras" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
