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Judith

noun

Jewish heroine in one of the books of the Apocrypha; she saved her people by decapitating the Assyrian general Holofernes.

An Apocryphal book telling how Judith saved her people. Synonym: Book of Judith.

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"Judith" Quotes from Famous Books

... Deerslayer, Judith, and Hetty are the four principal characters in Cooper's famous book, which has delighted many thousands ...

— Chatterbox, 1905. • Various

... making of her will a Providence, rushing to doom. Pity her, but do not blame her overmuch, or if you do, then blame Judith and Jephtha's daughter and Charlotte Corday, and all the glorious women who from time to time have risen on this sordid world of self, and given themselves as an offering upon the altars of their love, their religion, ...

— Beatrice • H. Rider Haggard

... it was decided to put it where Michael Angelo himself wished it to be, next the gate of the palace where the Judith of Donatello then stood. The statue weighed eighteen thousand pounds, and its removal was a work of great importance. I shall not give all the details of it here, but shall quote what Grimm says: "The ...

— A History of Art for Beginners and Students - Painting, Sculpture, Architecture • Clara Erskine Clement

... German, Magyar, Portuguese, Scandinavian, and in French. The ballad is here localised on the Carrick coast, near Girvan. The lady is called a Kennedy of Culzean. Prof. Bugge regards this widely diffused ballad as based on the Apocryphal legend of Judith and Holofernes. If so, the legend is diablement change en route. More probably the origin is a Marchen of a kind of Rakshasa fatal to women. Mr. Child has collected a vast mass of erudition on the subject, and by no means acquiesces in Prof. Bugge's ...

— A Collection of Ballads • Andrew Lang

... good as you think I am, but I am not half so bad as Miss Kean thinks I am. I got in wrong at Wellington and never could live down that scrape. Breaking the eleventh commandment is a terrible mistake: getting found out, I mean. I really did not do anything nearly so bad as lots of the other girls: Judith Blount, for instance. She did mean things and I never did. I was my own worst enemy ...

— Molly Brown's Orchard Home • Nell Speed

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