Which preposition to use with ishmael
God, it is said, appeared to Ishmael in a dream, and told him he must separate from Isaac, and go to the desert, where he would make him a great nation.
He is a sort of Ishmael among the sylvan tribes, who are startled at the sound of his voice, and fear him as a bandit.
When I had almost learned the history of Ishmael by heart, I read the rest of the book, and then I came to the history of Mahomet, who was there said to be the last descendant of Abraham.
I was told it was built by Muley Ishmael for the accommodation of his favourite black troops.
Thus he struggles to a sort of freedom which makes him the Ishmael of the Universe, everyone's hand against him, as his own hand is against everyone.
ISHMAEL, the son of Abraham and the handmaid Hagar, cast out of Abraham's household at 15; he became skilful with the bow, and founded a great nation, the Arabs; for the offering of Isaac on Moriah the Arabs substitute the offering of Ishmael on Arafat, near Mecca; Mahomet claimed descent from him; he gives name in modern life to a social outcast driven into antagonism to social arrangements.
He had cut himself off from all the gentle ways of his inheritance and lived like a very Ishmael through no fault of his own.