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It is a name of Hebrew origin meaning "God hears." Some possible examples of using the word 'Ishmael' in written English are: - In the biblical story, Ishmael was the son of Abraham and Hagar. - The novel Moby-Dick by Herman Melville tells the tale of Captain Ahab and his pursuit of the white whale, Moby-Dick, from the perspective of the narrator, Ishmael. - My friend's name is Ishmael and he is named after his grandfather who was a devout Christian. - Ishmael's constant prayers to God were always answered, giving him strength and guidance in difficult times. - The main character in the movie The Cider House Rules is named Homer Wells, but he goes by the nickname "Ishmael" in reference to his love for the novel Moby-Dick.
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Ishmael
proper noun
The eldest son of Abraham and his wife's handmaiden Hagar who were cast out after the birth of Isaac; traditionally the ancestor of the Arabs via the Ishmaelites.
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"Call me Ishmael".
The novel famously starts with the line, "Call me Ishmael".
Moby Dick Dubbed one of the "Great American Novels," the book follows Captain Ahab's ill-fated pursuit of The Whale over 635 pages, told by sailor Ishmael.
Wes Hoolahan had cancelled out Ishmael Miller's opener but James Vaughan appeared to have won it for Huddersfield with a stoppage-time penalty.
Yet Blackpool produced an immediate response as Ishmael Miller wheeled away to celebrate a strike against a club he represented on loan three seasons ago.
But Melville closes his novel with the sinking of the Pequod (his Essex), and with everyone drowned except for Ishmael, the narrator.
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Experiments with retelling the slave narrative in forms that would liberate its significance to today's African American struggle began with Ishmael Reed's exuberant Flight to Canada (1976) and extended into the metafiction of philosophical novelist Charles R. Johnson.
A massive project edited by writer Greil Marcus and Harvard professor Werner Sollors, A New Literary History of America, approached American history and culture from a number of sharp angles, with a roster of contributors ranging from historian John Diggins (on John Adams) to Ishmael Reed (on Mark Twain) to Michael Lesy (on Life magazine) to the editors (on Hurricane Katrina).
John Leonard put in with The Last Innocent White Man in America, and Ishmael Reed presented a polemical collection of essays called Airing Dirty Laundry.
One of Suzanne King's clients, Ishmael Francis, was staggered to discover, when he appeared in court, that the prosecution had built up a carefully constructed picture of him as a fully paid-up gang member.
Aaron Murray – known as "Mad Max" – ran the operation alongside Ishmael Brown, 27, who was in Rochester Prison serving nine years for kidnap.
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