Shulamite
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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When the lovely Shulamite in The Song of Solomon cries "Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines; for our vines have tender grapes!"
From Time Magazine Archive
The Shulamite My beloved’s skin is white and ruddy.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar
A Dancer What will you see in the Shulamite whom the King has compared to an army?
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar
And, when all was over, even as he mounted Shulamite and rode away, he rode out of the courtyard with the air of a Knight Templar riding forth-to do battle in a Holy War.
From The White Ladies of Worcester A Romance of the Twelfth Century by Barclay, Florence L. (Florence Louisa)
Hasten good Shulamite, black and comely still, though flecked with foam.
From The White Ladies of Worcester A Romance of the Twelfth Century by Barclay, Florence L. (Florence Louisa)
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