In the article just cited, I made use of the accompanying diagram in the form of a pyramid (Fig.
Pyramid showing the nature of the mouth, and relative rank of the Orders, and the affinities of the Suborders of Insects.
The anticyclone suggests a pyramid of cold, dry air.
One comes to think, therefore, of the anticyclone as a huge pyramid of cold air moving slowly across the country from west to east and all the while melting down on all sides, like a plate of ice-cream, into the surrounding territory.
We should study and treat many cases superficially, a smaller number more intensively, and at the top of the pyramid which represents our case-work will come a few to which days or weeks of time are devoted.
On our way back, we saw the pyramidof Cestius and the so-called mount of pot-sherds.
It is a vain attempt to reverse the pyramid and make the base stand on the apex.
In the late Pyramidtexts the sky is rectangular, each corner resting upon a pillar.
The relatives and friends of the dead man then wished him a prosperous journey, and covered the body with a pyramid or cairn of stones, over which they poured large quantities of chica.
From the Pyramid texts of Unas we glean some further information concerning the celestial sphere.
The southern pyramid of Dashour offers us one of the most curious variations upon the original theme (Fig.
The building situated to the east of the third pyramid is remarkable for its arrangement, its extent, and the enormous size of the blocks of which it is composed.
This system of pyramid building would explain the curious shapes which we have noticed in the Stepped Pyramidand the southern pyramid of Dashour.
The observations made by Lepsius in the Stepped Pyramid and in one at Abousir seem to prove that some pyramids were constructed in this manner.
The experience of the Middle Empire proved that it was better to make a fresh departure than to attempt to foist upon the pyramid a class of ornament which was destructive to the simplicity in which so much of its grandeur consisted.
This again disappeared under a pyramid of larger section and gentler slope (Fig.
The same fact has been observed in regard to the Stepped Pyramid and the pyramids at Abousir.
Would it not have been far better to build the pyramid at once to the required height, leaving in its thickness the necessary galleries?
Sometimes this is within the sides of the pyramid itself, as in that of Cheops; sometimes, after the example of the mastaba, it is cut out of the living rock upon which the pyramid stands.
No more fitting adornment could be imagined for the sharp peak of a pyramid rising nearly five hundred feet into the pure blue of an Egyptian sky.
And such parts were never those upon which the pyramid builders had lavished most of their attention.
The blocks in this case were moved and posited by a power external to themselves, and the final form of the pyramid expresses the thought of its human builder.
The first identification of the king with Osiris in the pyramid texts marks the conception of a better immortality for him.
But it is in the pyramid texts that we learn for the first time of the ba of a man, and that man is a king.
But when in the Twelfth Dynasty an abundance of material is at hand, we see, alongside the old forms of the burial customs, the use of the pyramid texts on the inside walls of the coffins of the great man.
When in the depression that followed the extravagance of the pyramid age the central monarchy lost its power, Egypt broke up into a series of tribal baronies (nomes).
In the Middle Empire, texts practically identical with the pyramid texts, but furnished with illustrations somewhat like those of the later books of the dead, are found in the coffins of provincial nobles.
The Osiris story as it can be pieced together from the pyramid texts [See A.
Even the pyramid texts reappear after one thousand years of practical oblivion.
So, as the possibility of a better immortality was claimed by wider and wider circles of men, the use of the pyramid texts, or similar texts, also became wider.
Pyramid of fifteen stars, followed by two lines of Latin from Page 435.
Dominion o'er the brazen tower, On This your teeth will gnaw in vain, Finding its strength beyond their power: While kindred stars in aether glow, This Pyramid will shine below!
The teaching of the Great Pyramid is in full accord with the rest of the book.
Morton Edgar, author of Pyramid Passages, has found foreshown in the Great Pyramid of Egypt abundant evidence of the accuracy of the Bible chronology of Pastor Russell and the supplements thereto supplied by Dr.
The Pyramid is still there, and the measurements can be made by anybody.
These findings are set forth in his work, Pyramid Passages, Vol.
The Great Pyramid confirms the Bible's teaching that the time of Harvest has come.
The Great Pyramid in Egypt is a Witness to all these events of the past and present--testifying in symbols?
The greatpyramid occupied a hundred thousand men for twenty years in its erection, without counting the workmen who were employed in hewing the stones and conveying them to the spot where the pyramid was built.
An Egyptian pyramid is no more the same thing as a Mexican pyramid than a Chinese pagoda is the same thing as an English light-house.
It may be, as he says, that for every pyramid in Egypt there are a thousand in Mexico and Central America, but the ruins in Egypt and those in America have nothing in common.
In general outline it was a rectangular pyramid three hundred feet square at the base, with a level summit of considerable extent, on which were two towers, and two altars where “perpetual fires” were maintained.
Its general form resembles very much the pyramid of Cholulu in Mexico, and from this fact I felt a great interest in climbing it.
The remarkable pyramid at Papantla was examined and described by Humboldt.
In this part of Mexico can be seen, among other things, the great pyramid or mound of Cholulu, the very ancient and remarkable pyramidal structures at Teotihuacan, and an uncounted number of teocallis or pyramids of smaller size.
The pyramid of Cholulu covers an area of forty-five acres.
The pyramid was an exact square at the base, each side being 82 feet in length, and the height about 60 feet.
There is no foundation whatever for Andriossy's hypothesis that the story originated in the fact of the Nile having once run westward from the Pyramid mountains to Bahr Bela Ma (stream without water) and the Natron and Mareotic Lakes.
Slowly climbing by stony ways, the path reaches the summit, a rock table crowned with a pyramid of loose boulders, heaped up in olden days as a memorial of golden-haired Maeve.
Another ring of giant stones rests on a hillside across the lake, under the Cairn hill, with its pyramid crown.
Therefore Iriel went forward: standing on the pyramid of the Dagda, he began measuring and reconnoitering the army.
From the dead queen's pyramid a view of surpassing grandeur and beauty opens over sea and land, mingled valley and hill.
The plan of the Danish pyramid of Uby is like the pyramids of Newgrange and Nowth and Dowth by the Boyne, and the carvings on King Gorm's stone by the Baltic are like the carvings of stones in our own island.
I said, "Sirrah, I will give you a hundred dollars to jump off this pyramid head first.
A laborious walk in the flaming sun brought us to the foot of the great Pyramid of Cheops.
Still, that mountain, prodigious as it was, was nothing to the Pyramid of Cheops.
Toss such items behind you, and then gather the much smaller pyramidtogether again.
The famouspyramid of Cholula is but eight miles from the city.
At places where the hill is dug away can be seen the layers of mud-brick, which proves undisputedly that the pyramid was really built.
The pyramid of Cholula is very disappointing to any one who has seen illustrations of it in histories of Mexico; there it is represented as a mass of steps, growing narrower as they reach the top.
Each side of the base of this pyramidwas three plethra in length, and fifteen tiers of the building were raised of black stone like the Thebaic stone, but the rest was filled up with a stone resembling that of the other pyramids.
It was a quadrangularpyramid of baked brick, a stadium in height, and each of the sides a stadium in length.
The lesser pyramid bears no inscription, and it has an ascent formed in it through an opening in one of the sides.
On the greater pyramid is an inscription which states the amount expended on herbs and radishes for the workmen, and it informs us that 1600 talents were paid for this purpose.
The moveable stone has been taken away, and the aperture is at most at about one-twelfth the whole height of the pyramid from its base.
Experimental proof of the existence of the pyramid of sight (52--55).
At the point d the pyramid of light is narrower than the pyramid of shadow by so much as the base s f is less than the base f g.
Therefore you must confess that the eye contains within itself one single indivisible point a, to which all the points converge of the pyramid of lines starting from an object, as is shown below.
Then again a b falls on the shaded body at i g and forms a pyramid f i g.
Given a base, each opposite angle, will form a triangle having a form and proportion equal to the larger angle; and if the base goes twice into each of the 2 lines of the pyramid the smaller triangle will do the same.
If an opaque body and a luminous one are (both) spherical the base of the pyramid of rays will bear the same proportion to the luminous body as the base of the pyramid of shade to the opaque body.
A light which is broader than the apex but narrower than the base of an opaque pyramidal body placed in front of it, will cause that pyramid to cast a shadow of bifurcate form and various degrees of depth.
When both eyes direct the pyramid of sight to an object, that object becomes clearly seen and comprehended by the eyes.
All visible objects reach the eye by the lines of a pyramid, and the point of the pyramid is the apex and centre of it, in the centre of the pupil, as figured above.
Going along a rocky cliff, we passed a strange volcanic vent-hole with a pyramid of granite of large proportions on each side of its aperture.
The eastern part of that plateau was flat-topped, whereas the central portion rose into a double pyramid and looked not unlike a giant tent with a porch attachment.
In its centre was set the wonderful diamond--a deeppyramid five-eighths of an inch square at the base--believed to be the first on which Louis de Berghem tried his newly invented method of cutting.
The girl who stood behind in attendance fanned us both with perfumed feathers, and at a word from Phorenice the mammoth was turned, bearing us back towards the royal pyramid by the way through which it had come.
I would have you remember that I was as firm on the throne of Atlantis as this pyramid stands upon its base when your worn-out priests came up to give their tottering benediction.
I say to you that, whilst you are yet Empress, you shall see this royal pyramid which you have polluted with your debaucheries torn tier from tier, and stone from stone, and scattered as feathers spread before a wind.
It was with very undecided feelings, then, that I obeyed the summons of the earth-shaking, and bade the slaves lead me through the windings of the pyramid to the great banqueting-hall.
But with the royal pyramid and its ultimate fate I had little concern; I did not even care then whether Phorenice was trapped, or whether she came out sound and fit for further mischief.
I had taken the plan of the pyramid out of the archives before the banquet and learned it thoroughly, and so was able to thread my way through its angular mazes without pause or blunder.
Yes, it took more than the crumbling of her royal pyramid to impress Phorenice with the infinite powers of those she warred against.
We are in the heart of the pyramid here, built in every way by a man's length of solid stone.
Yet she looked on helplessly enough last night, when her royal pyramid was trundled into a rubbish heap.
A score of sturdy fellows were detailed off for my escort, and with them in a double file on either hand, I marched out from the close perfumed air of the pyramid into the cool moonlight of the city.
It was to face this scene, then, that I came out from the royal pyramid at the summons of the chamberlains in the cool of next morning.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pyramid" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
