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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 Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt)

The Swallow was well found and well armed, and showed a livelier pair of heels than I had looked for, and that, in an Ishmaelitish craft, was a consideration and a comfort.

From Carette of Sark by Oxenham, John

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 Sa�ra.

From The Boy Slaves by Reid, Mayne

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 Bradlaugh, Charles

Behind and beyond all his Ishmaelitish tactics there were thoughts of a reconstruction.

From Lloyd George The Man and His Story by Dilnot, Frank