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US
/ˈɪʃmeɪɫ, ˈɪʃmiɫ/
]
NOUN
- (Old Testament) the son of Abraham who was cast out after the birth of Isaac; considered the forebear of 12 Arabian tribes
- a person who is rejected (from society or home)
How To Use Ishmael In A Sentence
- Ishmael would speak for them at midcentury in Moby Dick, as he dismissed learned commentary on cetology, called on Jonah and seamen with callused hands for support and declared the whale a spouting fish with a horizontal tail. Thar She Blows! 19th-Century Court Case Harpoons a Whale of a Story
- Up to this point Ishmael has told us a good deal about the great sperm whale.
- Initially, Ishmael is completely optimistic about this endless journey, affirming both the motion and the endless uncertainty associated with it.
- In the Islamic version the would-be victim is Ishmael or Isma il, Abraham's son with the bondwoman Hagar, who lived to become ancestor of the Arabs.
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- Initially, Ishmael is completely optimistic about this endless journey, affirming both the motion and the endless uncertainty associated with it.
- Michael Winter might be tempted to use the name Ishmael for a character in his next novel. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
- Ishmael reports that ‘the whale can never be known completely, for the man in the whaleboat is never in a position to see the entire shape of his massive prey.’
- Ishmael then subsequently married Egyptian (Hamitic) women, who gave birth to children who were only 1/4 Semitic. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
- Melville has combined these basic elements together very conveniently with the literary device of Ishmael, the narrator.
