Assyrian

How To Use Assyrian In A Sentence

• Venus afterwards was called the Assyrian goddess or Astarte, the queen of heaven.
• As I have heard nothing of you since the Assyrian calends, which is much longer ago than the Greek, you may perhaps have died in The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3
• It is noticeable that the distinction between the Semitic newcomers and the indigenous Shumiro-Accadians continues long to be traceable in the names of the royal temple-builders, even after the new Semitic idiom, which we call the Assyrian, had entirely ousted the old language -- a process which must have taken considerable time, for it appears, and indeed stands to reason, that the newcomers, in order to secure the wished for influence and propagate their own culture, at first not only learned to understand but actually used themselves the language of the people among whom they came, at least in their public documents. Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria
• Jinn reflect the sensibilities of those imagining them, just as in Assyrian times they were taken to be the spirits responsible for manias, who melted into the light at dawn. Archive 2006-12-01
• The prophetic message consisted of three different portions: -- First, Sennacherib is apostrophized (2Ki 19: 21-28) in a highly poetical strain, admirably descriptive of the turgid vanity, haughty pretensions, and presumptuous impiety of the Assyrian despot. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
• Rock reliefs carved by the sculptors of the Assyrian kings mark the terrain across the northern Iraqi countryside.
• Have you a mind, quoth Herr Trippa, to have the truth of the matter yet more fully and amply disclosed unto you by pyromancy, by aeromancy, whereof Aristophanes in his Clouds maketh great estimation, by hydromancy, by lecanomancy, of old in prime request amongst the Assyrians, and thoroughly tried by Hermolaus Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
• The speak out on: racial 'arabization', The Arab leadership goes beyond that and forces the Assyrians to embrace the Arabist national ideology. that the Assyrians are being asked to commit ethnic suicide by being submerged in Arabism Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
• In concluding this study of the two recently discovered tablets of the old Babylonian version of the Gilgamesh Epic which has brought us several steps further in the interpretation and in our understanding of the method of composition of the most notable literary production of ancient Babylonia, it will be proper to consider the _literary_ relationship of the old Babylonian to the Assyrian version. An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic
• As the Assyrians in Sennacherib's reign did not carry off Judah captive, the returning "remnant" cannot mainly refer to this time. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible