Word: nile
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...began where most mudguards stop and curved insolently toward each other far out against the bumper, where the four frosted eyes of the car glare at the daylight. Inside the steel shell was a boudoir of swansdown upholstery finished in velvet of Cleopatra green, a color sleepier than the Nile at twilight, and above the door handles of antique bronze four rosewood panels were inlaid with little ivory panels showing a sedan-chair of the 16th Century, a Pickwickian stagecoach, a Japanese rickshaw and an Egyptian whatnot, to remind the fortunate who ride within that there are less comfortable ways...
...Harvard-Boston expedition to Egypt that the princess, who was first thought to be wife of Sneferuw, used green cosmetic. If the walls of the tomb had also contained a solemn royal edict to the effect that no such decoration was to be used by the women of the Nile valley, the explorers would doubtless have enjoyed a hearty laugh at its absurdity. Yet it is just such an edict which the New Hampshire House passed...
...volume, the Danube is the most important river in Europe, although it is 675 miles shorter than the Volga. It is the 23rd longest river in the world. Others before it: Amazon (4,000). Nile (3,600), Yangtse (3,400), Yenisei (3,300), Mississippi (3,160), Missouri (3,000), Lena (3,000), Congo (3,000), Niger (3,000), Obi (2,700), Hoangho (2,600), Amur (2,500), Parana (2,450), Volga (2,400), Mackenzie (2,300), La Plata (2,300), Yukon (2,000), Madeira (2,000), Arkansas (2,000), Rio del Norte (1,800), St. Lawrence (1,800), Sao Francisco...
According to latest dispatches the dove of peace hovers once more above the Nile. The Egyptian bomb had been set and timed to blow up the vestiges of English power. After much smoke and a few sparks, it exploded with a resounding "Piff!", and instead of the British lion, Zagloul Pasha heads the casualty list...
...Gezira irrigation area in the Sudan is a cause of hot dissension among the Egyptian Nationalists who assert that the waters of the Nile diverted for irrigation purposes will result in depriving Lower Egypt, a rich agricultural district, of a vital supply of water. Engineers have stated, however, that extension of the irrigation area would in no way interfere with the Nile water supply of Lower Egypt...