Quotes about Papyrus

Does papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Do reeds flourish without water?

which sends couriers by sea, in papyrus vessels on the waters. Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people widely feared, to a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers.

They sweep by like boats of papyrus, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.