Ishmaelite
noun
a descendant of Ishmael, the traditional ancestor of the Arab peoples.
Ishmaelitish
-
a word derived from
Ishmaelite.
Example Sentences
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Did not Joseph's brethren sell him to a passing Ishmaelitish caravan?
From The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage
Still there was a fascination about it all, a suggestion of vagabondism, of Ishmaelitish wanderings, of having "here no continuing city," that touched the heart of a certain Methodist minister's daughter in our party.
From An American Girl Abroad by Adeline Trafton
Why have none of the commentators remarked on the singular circumstance of there being Ishmaelitish merchants at all, in the time when Joseph was sold into Egypt?
From The Bible: what it is by Charles Bradlaugh
In the Comanche of the Llano Estacado, or the Pawnee of the Platte, he would have found an exact counterpart of the Ishmaelitish wanderer over the sandy plains of the Saara.
From The Boy Slaves by Mayne Reid
There was a little uncertainty as to his reception at first, for Railsford’s was in an Ishmaelitish mood, and was ready to call everybody an enemy who wasn’t on its side.
From The Master of the Shell by Talbot Baines Reed
