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Use in Literature

Pharaohs

Beyond Wisdom stands Law, figured by Aaron with the Book, trampling on the lawless Pharaoh.–Henry Adams in Mont-Saint-Michel And Chartres.

Then there's Pharaoh, and Ishmael, and Jonadab, for the boys, and Leah and Naomi, for the girls; but my name beats all.–Horatio Alger in Paul Prescott's Charge.

Pharaoh rises to his feet to clutch the prey that is escaping.–Honoré de Balzac in Massimilla Doni.

And behind come galloping the hosts of Pharaoh; chance, speeding on the wheels of circumstance.–Florence L. Barclay in The Rosary.

Alike these tombs and frescoes, with the sepulchres of the Pharaohs, seem able to defy the encroachments of Time.–Matilda Betham-Edwards in The Roof of France.

We see the Pharaohs, Caesars, Toussaints and Napoleons of history and forget the vast races of which they were but epitomized expressions.–W.E.B. Du Bois in The Conservation of Races.

John can hear Pharaoh and his armies singing and yelling therein.–George Borrow in Zincali, Gypsies of Spain.

I devoted my evening to conversation with the landlord and his wife, but found that the name of Haygarth was as strange to them as if it had been taken from an inscription in the tomb of the Pharaohs.–Mary Elizabeth Braddon in Birds of Prey.

So he destroyed proud Pharaoh, so he destroyed proud Corah, and many others.–John Bunyan in Life and Death of Mr. Badman.

You say right, for there wanted in him, when he was most sensible, a sence of the pollution of his Nature; he only had guilt for his sinful actions, the which Cain, and Pharaoh, and Saul, and Judas, those reprobates, have had before him.–John Bunyan in Life and Death of Mr. Badman.

• Preface v
• Use in Literature 1
• Pharaohs 1
• Pharaohs – "Called" 7
• Pharaohs – "Children" 8
• Pharaohs – "Daughter" 8
• Pharaohs – "Day" 8
• Pharaohs – "Egypt's" 9
• Pharaohs – "Egyptians" 11
• Pharaohs – "God" 11
• Pharaohs – "Great" 13
• Pharaohs – "Israelites" 13
• Pharaohs – "Joseph" 14
• Pharaohs – "King" 15
• Pharaohs – "Land" 16
• Pharaohs – "Man" 17
• Pharaohs – "Moses" 17
• Pharaohs – "Order" 19
• Pharaohs – "People" 20
• Pharaohs – "Power" 20
• Pharaohs – "Sea" 21
• Pharaohs – "Send" 21
• Pharaohs – "Sons" 22
• Pharaohs – "Thou" 22
• Nonfiction Usage 24
• Script Usage 24
• Journalism Usage 24
• Governmental Usage 26
• Bibliographic Usage 26
• Encyclopedic Usage 43
• Lexicographic Usage 48
• Index 70