Which preposition to use with jew
When they were outside the palace Si Mahomet said to the fisherman: "Jew of a fisherman, you are lucky that I do not scratch your face.
There may never have been a Christian child who was martyred by the Jews in the particularly gruesome way describedprobably there never was; but, in listening to the Prioress, it does not enter into our heads to doubt her wordthe picture which she leaves with us of how the Christian regarded the Jew in the Middle Ages is too vivid to allow any breathing-space for incredulity.
How Shylockhow the old Jew with his inexorable pound of flesh-worship, creeps up in every section of human society!
The Jew as an Industrial Competitor.
He was a Jew by birth, but had lived all his life in the Hague, and besides having bought and sold some of the finest stones, was said to ask few questions, and to trouble little whence stones came, so they were but good.
He is not content with changing from a Jew into a Pole; he is now a great nobleman.
In effect Zadig, having summoned the Jew to the tribunal, addressed the judge in the following terms: "Pillar of the throne of equity, I come to demand of this man, in the name of my master, five hundred ounces of silver, which he refuses to pay.
Nor would I have my wife exceeding faire, For then she's liquorish meate; & it would mad me To see whoremasters teeth water at her, Red haird by no meanes, though she would yeild money To sell her to some Jew for poyson.
At Châteauneuf-sur-Loire a Jew on passing had to pay twelve deniers and a Jewess six.
A European merchant interfered, and saved the Jew from the bastinado he so richly deserved.
I might call on all, and be as old as the Wandering Jew at the last call.
In sum, he is a monster among men, a Jew among Christians, a fool among wise men, and a devil among saints.
If I have given more space to the great Alexandrian Jew than my narrow limits ought to afford, it is because I think I may thus avoid the necessity of saying much about the philosophic schemes of the Neo-Platonists, the phantasies of the Gnostics, or the occasionally daring speculations of the Christian Fathers.
I thought I was marrying the assistant editor of an important paper, not just a lazy old Jew without a job.'
He looked the great Jew before everything.
Of course, he borrowed from every usurer in the city for as long as they would lend him any money; but now he was up to his eyes in debt, and there was not a Jew inside France who would have lent him one hundred francs.
I could also set a broken bone, and could mix as bitter a draught as any Jew out of Judea.
I thrust the Jew through the open doorway, released his wrist; and then followed a slithering sound from the cellar steps, ending in a soft thump.
She beckoned the Jew towards her, and whispered: "Child or woman?" "Child in years," was the answer; "woman in self-reliance and trial.
He walked the streets, and examined with a curious and inquisitive eye the countenance of every Jew about my stature; but in vain.