Saïs

American  

[say-is] / ˈseɪ ɪs /

noun

1. an ancient city in N Egypt, on the Nile delta: an ancient capital of Lower Egypt.

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Saïs British  

/ ˈseɪɪs /

noun

1. (in ancient Egypt) a city in the W Nile delta; the royal capital of the 24th dynasty (about 730–715 _bc ) and the 26th dynasty (about 664–525 _bc )

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Saïs

Here is the lake of Saïs; here, standing all alone on the plain, are those great monolithic pillars stretching away into perspective—four hundred of them in all—a hundred and nine still upright.

From The Tracer of Lost Persons by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

Amasis, however, the successor of Apries, appears to have been Nebuchadnezzar's direct antagonist, and to have resisted him in the field, while Apries remained in the palace at Saïs.

From Ancient Egypt by George Rawlinson

"Miss Saïs Bredd," put in the Western girl; "I was named Saïs after my father visited Egypt, but my friends call me Louie."

From Melomaniacs by James Huneker

At Thebes he re-erected the portions of the temple of Karnak, which had been thrown down by the Assyrians; at Saïs, Mendes, Heliopolis, and Philæ he undertook extensive works.

From Ancient Egypt by George Rawlinson

Practically all of his other published works are posthumous: his unfinished novel, Henry of Ofterdingen; a set of religious hymns; the beginnings of a "physical novel," The Novices at Saïs.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Kuno Francke

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