Looking for sentences and phrases with the word Ishmaelite? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
His father was a Syrian, or a Persian, his mother was an Ishmaelite.
Later he returned, all mellifluous charm, as the Ishmaelite who takes the family in and even lays on musical entertainment for them – a trio for two flutes and harp, ravishingly played tonight.
Of the Ishmaelite tribes, Kedar must have been one of the most important, and thus in later times the name came to be applied to all the wild tribes of the desert.
We can see a parallel in the actions of Joseph's brothers, the Ishmaelite traders, and Portiphar's wife in what happens in human trafficking today.
Examples from Classical Literature
He wanders like a wild Ishmaelite, in a world of which he is as the spiritual light, either the guidance or the misguidance!
This feeling had been accentuated by the Ishmaelite life he had led from his puppyhood.
But sensuousness and lawlessness are everywhere the stamp of the Ishmaelite.
An Ishmaelite among the farm stock, they are shunned and hated by every living thing, when at large.
Here he was now an outcast, an Ishmaelite, with every man's hand raised against him.
Upon his Ishmaelite neck was firmly fastened the collar of vassalage to the baron of the Quarterhouse.
The Ishmaelite counted his life as nothing so that he saw a Greek fall with him.
There is a tender intimacy between the Ishmaelite and his flock.
I have left those rooms, and am a wanderer and an Ishmaelite.
Baxter, on the other hand, was an Ishmaelite, a man to be put down.
