Joshua
['dʒɔʃwə]
Definition
(noun.) a book in the Old Testament describing how Joshua led the Israelites into Canaan (the Promised Land) after the death of Moses.
(noun.) (Old Testament) Moses' successor who led the Israelites into the Promised Land; best remembered for his destruction of Jericho.
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Examples
- The first triumphs of Joshua are not repeated. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Did you ever see anything like Sir Joshua? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But as Warren Hastings looked at gold and thought of buying Daylesford, so Joshua Rigg looked at Stone Court and thought of buying gold. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- About fifteen hundred years before Christ, this camp-ground of ours by the Waters of Merom was the scene of one of Joshua's exterminating battles. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The party was gay and extravagant in appearance, everybody had put on evening dress except Birkin and Joshua Mattheson. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- If it was Adam, she would find Adam; if it was the Ark, she would find the Ark; if it was Goliath, or Joshua, she would find them. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Sir Joshua was labelled and placed forever in her mind. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But Joshua fell upon them and utterly destroyed them, root and branch. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In 1814 Joshua Shaw of England invented the percussion cap. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Gerald had dived in, after Sir Joshua, and had swum to the end of the pond. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The great social idea, said Sir Joshua, was the SOCIAL equality of man. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- No soul was prophetic enough to have any foreboding as to what might appear on the trial of Joshua Rigg. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Then Joshua began his terrible raid, and from Jericho clear to this Baal-Gad, he swept the land like the Genius of Destruction. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Socially speaking, Joshua Rigg would have been generally pronounced a superfluity. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Joshua Shaw took a United States patent on a percussion gun, June 19, 1822, and the copper percussion cap was said to have been introduced in the United States by him in 1842. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It was becoming an old moon to the friends we had left behind us, but to us Joshuas it stood still in the same place and remained always the same. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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