"Idumean" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... his blood as an Idumean, and his undisguised attachment to the religion of his Gentile masters, created an obstacle to a complete understanding with his subjects, which no degree of personal kindness, or of wisdom and munificence in the conduct of public affairs, could ever entirely remove. ...
— Palestine or the Holy Land - From the Earliest Period to the Present Time • Michael Russell
... shepherd spoke this name his listeners drew back from him as if it were a defilement to hear it. They spat upon the ground and cursed the Idumean ...
— The Unknown Quantity - A Book of Romance and Some Half-Told Tales • Henry van Dyke |
