What has happened then ?" "Happened! Things have come to a pretty pass there, and you'll hear of it soon enough.

Do you think I should have left house and grandchildren at my age,--going on for eighty,--like any Greek or Phoenician vagabond, and come out among these godless foreigners (the gods blast and destroy them!), if I could possibly have staid on in Egypt ?" "But tell me what it's all about." "Some other time, some other time.

Now you must take me to your own house, and I won't stir out of it as long as we are in this land of Typhon." The old man said this with so much emphasis, that Nebenchiari could not help smiling and saying: "Have they treated you so very badly then, old man ?" "Pestilence and Khamsin!" blustered the old man.
[The south-west wind, which does so much injury to the crops in the Nile valley.

It is known to us as the Simoom, the wind so perilous to travellers in the desert.] "There's not a more good-for-nothing Typhon's brood on the face of the earth than these Persians.

I only wonder they're not all red-haired and leprous.