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 Beresford, J. D. (John Davys)
The Illustrator is the very Ishmaelite of collectors—his hand is against every man, and every man's hand is against him.
From The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author by Burton, John Hill
"Ishmaelite" Finding "Casus Belli" in Fate.—Tempest on Bay of Biscay.
From Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 by Lee, Carson Jay
He was a boy; a raw-boned green boy, smarting under a sense of injustice, a regular, thorough-paced young Ishmaelite as you ever saw.
From Roger Ingleton, Minor by Reed, Talbot Baines
Hear, O spirit world, if such there be, that, in the days to come, you may witness how faithfully Earl Bluefield, Humanity's Ishmaelite, kept his word.
From The Hindered Hand or, The Reign of the Repressionist by Bell, Robert E.
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