Shemite
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- Shemitic adjective
- Shemitish adjective
Example Sentences
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The Shemite nations showed little tendency to migrate, being grouped about the Euphrates and Tigris valleys and neighboring regions.
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The Zingarans sank my last ship off the Shemite shore—that's why I joined Zarallo's Free Companions.
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There a Shemite trader told me that Zarallo had brought his Free Companies south to guard the Darfar border.
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"Jade, or I'm a Shemite!" swore Conan.
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The descendants of the old kings, we suppose, lived in Thebes, and were tributary princes for 400 years, but gained sufficient strength, finally, to expel the Shemite invaders, even as the Gothic nations of Spain, in the Middle Ages, expelled their conquerors, the Moors.
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