Ishmaelite
Americannoun
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a supposed descendant of Ishmael; a member of a desert people of Old Testament times
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rare an outcast
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He even introduced a contemporary critic of Utopian conditions in the shape of the talkative person, "a conscious Ishmaelite in the world of wit, and in some subtly inexplicable way a most consummate ass."
From H. G. Wells by J. D. (John Davys) Beresford
He would lose the baleful consciousness of forever walking apart, separated from his kind, a spiritual Ishmaelite.
From The Emigrant Trail by Geraldine Bonner
A certain Ishmaelite merchant is related to have invited Rabba to come and see where the heavens and the earth touched.
From Hebrew Literature by Epiphanius Wilson
And this good, at least, has to be recorded of him, that he saved the family of Thomas Wanless from want, by consequence, also, in all probability, saving Thomas himself from becoming an abandoned Ishmaelite.
From The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant by Alexander Johnstone Wilson
She saw that he had the straight serious features of the Ishmaelite, but lacked the fierce yet wondering gaze of the Arab.
From The City of Delight A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem by Frank X. Leyendecker
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