Root from New York

Usage examples of elihu.

In America Elihu Burritt, while attending the anvil, made himself a master of a score of languages and became the literary lion of his age and country.

And, with broom profits, Castor Buntline and his spastic son Elihu went carpetbagging, became tobacco kings.

All in all, he decided, it was a tribute to the energy and colorfulness of Theodore Roosevelt that this less than splendid house, formerly rented by Elihu Root, was now occupied by Representative William Randolph Hearst.

Elihu amplified, tapping one of the three foot-deep stacks of printouts awaiting their attention.

Standing over them was Woodrow Elihu Balogna, known to all as Woody Baloney, sales rep for the upper Midwest region.