David's tragic son

Usage examples of absalom.

Her parents were an ill-matched pair of Southern Presbyterians named Absalom and Carie Sydenstricker.

When Absalom finally rejoined his family, he was exhausted, dispirited, and prepared to take an extended home leave.

For the next few years, Absalom continued his missionary work, but Pearl now realized that her family and all Westerners were regarded as unwelcome outsiders.

Within a few months, her father, Absalom, died, thus cutting another link that bound her to the past, to China, and to the missionary enterprise.

As for the blood-men, they also were under command and the names of their captains were, Captain Cain, Captain Nimrod, Captain Ishmael, Captain Esau, Captain Saul, Captain Absalom, Captain Judas, and Captain Pope.

Explain, then, in what way this sorceress set Absalom against his father and Jeroboam against his master.

Herr Professor Doktor Karl Manfred, wearing an identification tag that assigned him to the Karl Marx University of Leipzig in the Deutsche Demokratische Republik--in other words, Communist East Germany--stood by the bulletin board of the Danish ship Absalom and stared at a beautifully colored poster of three-quarters naked folk dancers prancing on a turfy field and cursed Danish ships, Danish sailors, Denmark and all its works.

But whether that mournfull burthen, and treble calling out after Absalom, had any reference unto the last conclamation, and triple valediction, used by other Nations, we hold but a wavering conjecture.

He saw also a huge slate on which was written the body of Christ, the body of Absalom and the evil which is lust.

Bill Williams, whose odd-ball father had burdened him with Absalom, Elvis and da Vinci, had spent his council house and comprehensive school years hiding his brains in order not to be bullied.

And Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Go in unto thy father's concubines, which he hath left to keep the house.

He'd been christened Absalom Elvis da Vinci Williams, and he could lose his cool like a bolt of lightning.

It's almost a relief when he and Msimangu (close friends by then) learn at last that Absalom is in reform school for burglary.

For twice before he had done it, once when the small boy Absalom was sick unto death, and once when he had thought of giving up the ministry to run a native store at Donnybrook for a white man named Baxter, for more money than the church could ever pay.

Like twins who share identities but who develop differen­tiated skills, the skipjacks varied, and Captain Absalom knew that his advantage lay when the wind blew from the starboard side, for then the offset centerboard cooperated with the tilted keel to produce maximum speed.