Sisera
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Why, for instance, is poached trout called Trout Sisera?
From Time Magazine Archive
A classic example of tactical guile was offered by the Prophetess Deborah in her battle with the Canaanite general, Sisera.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus we have Sisera lying on a feather bed and attired like a trooper of Cromwell's Ironsides, and Jael dressed like a modern maid-of-all-work.
From English Painters with a chapter on American painters by S. R. Koehler
Surely she fastened the nail in a sure place, and the wife of Sisera, tarried long ere his chariot should come—and shall we in these latter days of Israel be less bold than they?
From Hansford: A Tale of Bacon's Rebellion by St. George Tucker
God promises deliverance: and Deborah is raised up to organize the resistance against Jabin, "the captain of whose host was Sisera."
From Inspiration and Interpretation Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford by John William Burgon
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