Israelites

Examples

• Our expression and that of the Israelites both mean the same--great distance. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The Israelites held them sacred in the old patriarchal times, and these other Arabs, their lineal descendants, do so likewise. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• As Jordan goes so go the bloody Israelites. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Moreover he outlined and partly drafted an epic poem on the deliverance of the Israelites from Egypt. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• It is one of the four holy cities of the Israelites, and is to them what Mecca is to the Mohammedan and Jerusalem to the Christian. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The book of Numbers takes up the wanderings of the Israelites in the desert and their invasion of Canaan. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In comparison with slaves, and the Israelites in Egypt, and such people! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• At any rate, he destroyed thirty-one kings, and divided up their realms among his Israelites. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• When Joseph was dying he prophesied that exodus of the Israelites from Egypt which occurred four hundred years afterwards. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• This was a real pitched battle in which the Israelites lost 30,000 (! H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

Editor: Wilma