Egyptian charm

Usage examples of scarab.

One such pierced through the ruby scarab, that today I had put on again, red through red, such a colour the eyes were besotted by it.

Then, with sudden clarity, as if his mind had reached through the intervening yards of earth, he seemed to see a brown scarab beetle, little more than six inches long, burrowing its way down in search of long-buried vegetation.

Prince or Pharaoh from whom his wife Amenartas was descended, I am not sure, nor can I tell if it was drawn upon the sherd at the same time that the uncial Greek was inscribed, or copied on more recently from the Scarab by some other member of the family.

The scarab had been found by Wilhelm Dorpfeld in the tomb of Tutankhamen and was now in the Khedival Museum at Umm el-Dunya.

The chair arrived next, a splendid thing of polished ebony and gilt, with ruby eyes in the hooded snakes and emerald eyes in the crocodiles, and a magnificent multihued scarab in the center of the chair back.

A few more wars, a few more years, and Jonathan will sit on the throne, and I will lead his armies, and the ports of Phoenicia and Philistia will hold our round-bellied merchant ships and the pharaoh of Egypt will send us gaming boards of agate and onyx, and papyrus scrolls with the Book of the Dead inscribed in hieroglyphics which look like scarabs or lightning flashes.

They swarmed around the monstrous wallowing hulls like ants around the bodies of shiny black scarab beetles.

At the last moment, the scarabs sensed her approach and turned for battle.

They darted in low and shot up between the scarabs, flickering tongues of fire following their progress.

Spooked and uncertain, the scarabs broke formation and scattered, bellowing furiously.

The scarabs lunged after them, but their movements were clumsy and slow in comparison.

There was a sudden roar of mechanical wings from high above the trees as one of the scarabs raced past.

The scarabs appeared to have left the area, but there was no telling when they would return.

The Red Knight and his scarabs seemed unable to follow for some reason, which meant Jonah might be safe, but this was small comfort.

The first wave of scarabs blasted overhead, their claws narrowly missing the sail.