Sentence examples for ishmael from inspiring English sources

"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.

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.