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
"Olessiya" is possessed of a weird, unearthly beauty; "The Shulamite" is a prose-poem of antiquity.
From Yama: the pit by Guerney, Bernard Guilbert
The bride replies to the daughters of Jerusalem:— Why will ye look upon the Shulammite? or, as in the Authorized Version, What will ye see in the Shulamite?
From Union And Communion or Thoughts on the Song of Solomon by Taylor, James Hudson
He follows certain scholars in his conjecture that the Shulamite was given back to a humble shepherd by Solomon, when she had conquered the latter by the power of her impassioned chastity.
From Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales by Cripps, Arthur Shearly
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
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