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Ishmael

[ US /ˈɪʃmeɪɫ, ˈɪʃmiɫ/ ]
NOUN
  1. (Old Testament) the son of Abraham who was cast out after the birth of Isaac; considered the forebear of 12 Arabian tribes
  2. a person who is rejected (from society or home)

How To Use Ishmael In A Sentence

  • Up to this point Ishmael has told us a good deal about the great sperm whale.
  • Ishmael would speak for them at midcentury in Moby Dick, as he dismissed learned commentary on cetology, called on Jonah and seamen with callused hands for support and declared the whale a spouting fish with a horizontal tail. Thar She Blows! 19th-Century Court Case Harpoons a Whale of a Story
  • Ishmael, consequently, also investigates the antithetical approach, the method of pure subjective perception.
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  • Ishmael was struck by the man's austere expression.
  • Over by the bar a good-looking boy in the dusty clothes of a trailhand just in from Virginia City and his oxlike older brother had gotten into a vociferous argument over a girl with a dark-haired gambler, their voices rising higher and higher over Ishmael's quiet instructions to Jason. Ishmael
  • As described in v. 16, after Hagar had placed Ishmael under the bush, she sat down “at a distance, a bowshot [ki-mtahavei, literally, bowshots] away.” Hagar: Midrash and Aggadah.
  • And whats even sadder is that Abraham fathered both Isaac and Ishmael who were half brothers. A ‘Day’ of Intel « Antiwar.com Blog
  • Ishmael the character is an objectified self, a projection of the self image and frame of mind of the narrator hero.
  • And Abraham had another son Ishmael that he gat upon Hagar his chamberer. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
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