Uriah Heep may be a crawling creature; but his crawling takes him upstairs.
Uriah Mott, private, mustered out with company May 24, 1863.
The other's tone was delightfully envious of Uriah's good fortune.
Uriah couldn't help bragging a little as he told his good fortune.
Poor Uriah has been disposed of, and now the lady sends you to look for his bones.
There is to be nothing Uriah Heepish about our attitude toward the world.
When Bathsheba heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for him as was the custom.
"I would let you have your groceries at cost," said Uriah, as an extra inducement.
"That wouldn't put the knife inside the postmaster's office," said Uriah.
"Well, I'll do that," responded Uriah, after some meditation.
masc. proper name, in Old Testament, the Hittite husband of Bathsheba; of non-Hebrew (possibly Horite) origin, but explained by folk etymology as Hebrew Uriyyah, literally "flame of the Lord." Uriah Heep, character from Dickens' "David Copperfield" (1850) sometimes is invoked as the type of a hypocritically humble person.
