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Ahasuerus

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Ahasuerus

Name of several Persian kings in the Bible, notably the husband of Esther. Traditionally it was also the name of the Wandering Jew.



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Third among the harpooneers was Daggoo, a gigantic, coal-black negro-savage, with a lion-like tread --an Ahasuerus to behold.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
le surintendant pass from the height of favor to the direst disgrace; that Vaux be turned into a dungeon for him; that after having been steeped to his lips, as it were, in all the perfumes and incense of Ahasuerus, he is transferred to the gallows of Haman; in other words, of Enguerrand de Marigny?
The Man in the Iron Mask by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
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