Dickens villain Heep

Usage examples of uriah.

King David had sent Uriah the Hittite into the front line of the battle so that Bathsheba would become a widow.

They are the failures, the Uriah Keeps of humanity, schemers, wreckers of marriages and reputations purely from malicious motivation.

Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem, [25]: Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite, [26]: Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, [27]: Abiezer the Anethothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite, [28]: Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite, [29]: Heleb the son of Baanah, a Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai out of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin, [30]: Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash, [31]: Abi-albon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the Barhumite, [32]: Eliahba the Shaalbonite, of the sons of Jashen, Jonathan, [33]: Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Hararite, [34]: Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maachathite, Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite, [35]: Hezrai the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite, [36]: Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite, [37]: Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, armourbearer to Joab the son of Zeruiah, [38]: Ira an Ithrite, Gareb an Ithrite, [39]: Uriah the Hittite: thirty and seven in all.

I’d like to thank Uriah Heap and The Ozark Mountain Daredevils for providing the musical score.

Uriah, having taken the pony to a neighbouring stable, was at work at a desk in this room, which had a brass frame on the top to hang paper upon, and on which the writing he was making a copy of was then hanging.

Traddles,' replied Uriah, resuming his official seat, and squeezing his bony hands, laid palm to palm between his bony knees.

If any one indignantly denies that such a thing is possible in a saint, and insists that such a character is a stranger to saving grace, we would remind him of David: was not the murder of Uriah definitely planned?

But in the flesh he resembled a genetic pile-up between Struwwelpeter and Uriah Heep.