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The85 party I came with is down below listening to an archæological lecture on the cunei, the podium, the vomitorium, and heaven knows what all, in which I am not interested.

From Manasseh A Romance of Transylvania by Bicknell, Percy Favor

She could hardly have been more dismayed if one of Caesar's cunei, or wedges of soldiers, had made a charge against her.

From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Different tribes had particular cunei allotted to them.

From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis)

It is so called because the letters appear to to be formed of little cunei, wedges, or nails.

From St. Nicholas v. 13 No. 9 July 1886 an Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks by Various

Travellers at an early date had noticed these inscriptions at Persepolis and elsewhere, and while some compared the forms of the characters composing them to arrows, others considered them to be wedges, cunei in Latin.

From A Primer of Assyriology by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)