Patriarchs

Examples

• Some patriarchs wore awful turbans, but the grand mass of the infidel horde wore the fiery red skull-cap they call a fez. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I had rasher sail with a whole brigade of patriarchs than suffer so. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Is any man insane enough to imagine that this picnic of patriarchs sang, made love, danced, laughed, told anecdotes, dealt in ungodly levity? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• And now, after all, the last of the Patriarchs coolly walked into the parlour, saying in effect, 'Be good enough to throw it down and dance upon it. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The Patriarchs were not dressed in bottle-green broadcloth, and yet his clothes looked patriarchal. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• He has his favourite box, he bespeaks all the papers, he is down upon bald patriarchs, who keep them more than ten minutes afterwards. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The early Semitic gods, on the other hand, were thought of as tribal patriarchs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• You're one of the Patriarchs; you're a shaky old card; and you can't be in love with this Lizzie? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Here, you feel all the time just as if you were living about the year 1200 before Christ--or back to the patriarchs--or forward to the New Era. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Various old ladies in the neighbourhood spoke of him as The Last of the Patriarchs. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.

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