Ishmaelitish
- a word derived from Ishmaelite.
Example Sentences
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Northward was the home ranch of the Lazy K, an Ishmaelitish outfit, ever at petty war with the other settlers in the district.
From The Round-Up A romance of Arizona novelized from Edmund Day's melodrama by Day, Edmund
Rather than the boulevards one prefers Egdon heath, as Hardy paints it, ‘the great inviolate place,’ the ‘untamable Ishmaelitish thing’ which its arch-enemy, Civilization, could not subdue.
From The Bibliotaph and Other People by Vincent, Leon H. (Leon Henry)
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 Reed, Talbot Baines
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 Reid, Mayne
Behind and beyond all his Ishmaelitish tactics there were thoughts of a reconstruction.
From Lloyd George The Man and His Story by Dilnot, Frank
