Pessimistic Old Testament prophet

Usage examples of jeremiah.

Roger Minott Sherman was unquestionably the ablest lawyer in New England who never obtained distinction in political life, and, with the exception of Daniel Webster and Jeremiah Mason and Rufus Choate, the ablest New England ever produced.

He was one of the ablest lawyers and advocates New England ever produced, probably having no equal at the Bar of New England except Jeremiah Mason and Daniel Webster.

The Antillean refugee Jeremiah de Saint-Amour, disabled war veteran, photographer of children, and his most sympathetic opponent in chess, had escaped the torments of memory with the aromatic fumes of gold cyanide.

A few of them, including Jeremiah, felt a bit lifted by the liquid fire, and they fooled around with a few high jinks such as clodhopping to the rhythm of their braying slurring voices.

Jeremiah was brought to the overcrowded jail filled, not with angry miners, but drunken men clodhopping and singing in off-key voices.

Jeremiah enjoyed their friendship and joined in their drunken revelry, namely clodhopping about to the tune of raucous bellowing.

Damn fat pig, Jeremiah thought as he leaned against the corncrib at a safe distance from the animal.

Close on his heels came Nathanial and Jeremiah, their broad grins warning of good news, while Pitney and the major assisted a ruffled, bone-weary Trahern to his chair.

Arthur Hepplewhite had not cheated him, despite his disappointment when Jeremiah refused to sell his land.

Jeremiah and Stavros were returning from an all-night service at the home of one of their new communicants, a well-to-do hotelkeeper who lived in the wealthier part of the city, near the palace.

Jeremiah delighted in her presence through the fading whiff of her rose water that she had sprinkled sparsely on her spinsterish body.

Jeremiah Micaiah a growing boy, two years short of his adolescent years, was amoungst the appreciative audience.

Every time a stranger passed near, Jeremiah hid amoungst the spindly pines.

Jeremiah became one of the soldiers of the Lord for the Holy Light Mission, and he joined the missionaries in their search for lost souls amoungst the debris of the forgotten ones in the foul district of the city.

Jeremiah tried not over-hard to keep the door against them and was barged aside, while Wimbarton, having first moved to the bed, dropped back towards the wall a fair good distance, and watched as coolly as could be, his dark, thin face saturnine.