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
She was to me more than the Shulamite to the singing king, fairer, more spotless; a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.
From Ben-Hur; a tale of the Christ by Wallace, Lewis
The Shulamite But my vineyard which is mine I still have.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar
The Egyptian sat where he could not but see her; she, whom he had already engrossed in memory as his ideal of the Shulamite.
From Ben-Hur; a tale of the Christ by Wallace, Lewis
Then he remembered "black, but comely," and arrived at the right name, Shulamite.
From The White Ladies of Worcester A Romance of the Twelfth Century by Barclay, Florence L. (Florence Louisa)
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