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  • Dave: The story of Dr. Saxton Pope and Ishi is very noteworthy and of interest to all hunters, not just traditional bowhunters.

    Sit Down, Shut Up 2008

  • Now the word Ishi means my husband; while the word Baali means my Lord, and the language, therefore, points to an experience or a relation of marriage.

    The Theology of Holiness Dougan Clark

  • Ishi is a man the Lord (Gen.iv. 1), and intimates that in gospel-times the church's husband shall be the man Christ Jesus, made like unto his brethren, and therefore they shall call him Ishi, not

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

  • Ishi is vir meus -- my man; Baali is dominus meus -- my lord.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

  • Once in this world they were man and wife, and lived in China; and the husband was called Ishi, and the wife

    The Romance of the Milky Way And Other Studies & Stories Lafcadio Hearn 1877

  • DTL Debra Levi Holtz, Special to The Chronicle -- A century after a starving Native American known as Ishi emerged from the Northern California wilderness and was studied by University of California anthropologists, efforts are under way to present him and other American Indians as educators rather than descendants of a vanished culture.

    SFGate: Top News Stories metro@sfchronicle.com (Debra Levi Holtz 2011

  • "Ishi" was not his tribal name, but a word meaning "man" in Yahi.

    Theodora Kroeber 2010

  • My lord, a title the prophet (Hos. 2: 16) reproaches the Jewish church for applying to Jehovah, instead of the more endearing title Ishi, meaning "my husband."

    Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897

  • The world that is ruled over by Baali is a world of "miserable worms of the dust" and such crawling creatures; but the world that is warmed and lightened by "Ishi" is one in which men and women walk upright, conscious of their own divine nature, instead of dodging about to escape being crushed under the feet of Moloch as he strides through his dominions.

    The Hidden Power And Other Papers upon Mental Science 1881

  • "We applied new methods that we had developed to directly image carbon nanotubes in acid," said co-author Yeshayahu "Ishi" Talmon, professor of chemical engineering at the

    innovations-report 2010

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