Shulamite
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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When the lovely Shulamite in The Song of Solomon cries "Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines; for our vines have tender grapes!"
From Time Magazine Archive
But in spite of the verbal repetition of several of the figures of ch. iv.... the tone in which the king now addresses the Shulamite is quite changed.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" by Various
The latter supposition is inconceivable; and why should not the Shulamite call herself comely?
From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry Theophilus Finck
The Chorus Turn about, turn again, O Shulamite, that we may see thee.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus
In the most beautiful language in the gift of the poets of that day Solomon converses with Naamah in the following dialogue: "Return, return O Shulamite; return, return that we may look upon thee."
From Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly A Story of the Wilmington Massacre. by Jack Thorne
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