Israelite

Examples

• There is as much to be filled up in the one case as in the other, and the one mode of conception is to the Israelite what the other is to the Greek. Plato. The Republic.
• Art thou in thy senses, Israelite? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• There's a cunning Israelite at the bottom of all this, who has won your heart. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• 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.

Edited by Candice