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How to use Ishmael in a sentence

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I left the cabin and picked up my fishing rod, which Ishmael had festooned with some very sexy lures, including a neon-green pinwheel.
For the twins they are sometimes supposed to be, Ishmael and Ahab have only very rare moments of contiguity or overlapping.
Abraham obeyed God and circumcised his son Ishmael and all other males in his household.
Inside a tent on the quarterdeck, Ishmael meets Captain Peleg, an elderly gruff man, who is one of the two owners of the ship.
The Arabians themselves were broken up into various clans who traced their lineage to Abraham and his son Ishmael.
What's never questioned here, though it might have been, is the biddable character of Ishmael.
Here the two words were hyphenated, signifying a wordplay on the name of Ishmael, Abraham's first son and Isaac's half-brother.
Wes Hoolahan had cancelled out Ishmael Miller's opener but James Vaughan appeared to have won it for Huddersfield with a stoppage-time penalty.
Len Ishmael, Director General of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States, moderated the discussion.
Ishmael lived the first 13 years of his life as a normal child within a normal family.
It is because Ishmael was not the seed of the promise given by God, instead he was the son gained through a way of men.
Anthony Ishmael is alive today due to the heroic and swift actions of Clifford Ripley and Paul Pelletier.
Isaiah 42 can never be applied to an Israelite Prophet, as Kedar is the second son of Ishmael.
We have heard the moving stories of such former child soldiers as young Grace, who was here today, Ishmael Beah and Emmanuel Jal.
It is dangerous to approach the thing too closely, but Ishmael hypothesizes that the spout is nothing but mist, the effect of a whale thinking about Eternity.
Ishmael ends the discussion of cetology by saying that his classification system can't easily be perfected, like all great works, it will remain unfinished.
It is clear that while Ishmael and Isaac end up very different people, they bear one another no ill will.
In this way, our fathers, Isaac and Ishmael, will both see their children thrive together.
Ishmael Beah, former child soldier and author of A Long Way Gone, joined us to discuss KONY 2012 and his own experiences.
Although beautifully shot, the film is crippled by its sluggish pace, and it is difficult to muster much sympathy for the petulant, sulky Ishmael.
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Examples from Classical Literature
And Abraham had another son Ishmael that he gat upon Hagar p. 69his chamberer.
But Midianite tribes had also pushed northwards and mingled with the descendants of Ishmael.
Years pass, and the wild, reckless Ishmael is seen ridiculing Isaac, his puny brother and coheir.
There, by every nation, every seafarer, he will remain a shunned and abhorred Ishmael for all time.
Azartah, Ishmael, and three other priests and Levite chiefs.
Hagar and her son are said to have left Sarah's house shortly after the birth of Ishmael due to the strife enkindled between the two women.
Ishmael may have been the son or grandson of some ammonite princess.
Bear Creek demanded of an Ishmael who lived precariously by chuck-a-luck.
As a people, they are chiefly the descendants of Esau and Ishmael.
Davies, my friend, there is a man who is a veritable Ishmael.
When his family's village in Darfur was attacked by janjaweed militias, Idris Ishmael managed to run away.
But the plight of Kazuo and his wife Hatsue is of particular interest to reporter Ishmael.
Yet, for some reason, Ishmael, and not Ahab, has remained the darling of Melville critics.
Never before have I recommended a book in the way that I recommend Quinn's novel, Ishmael.
Then came Ishmael and his stout sons in open view, bearing down upon their late treacherous allies, with looks and voices that proclaimed the character of the succour.
That were to expose thee to the gaze of those dogs of Ishmael and of Edom,'' whispered Isaac, with a suspicious glance towards the crowd of knights and squires.
Ishmael was Abraham's first son, the son of his bondwoman, Hagar.
Well then, down ye go here, Ishmael, for the three hundredth lay.
When they got back to Missouri, Ishmael felt homesick for Trinidad.
During the war years, he works in the Roosevelt administration, but in 1945, he resigns his office and within weeks is at work on Call Me Ishmael.
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