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  • "A song like" Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho, "for example, could honor the actions of any number of" Joshuas "in the African community who led their people in battle in many different" Jerichos. "

    The Annotated "Ramble On Rose" Robert Hunter 2003

  • Like the ugly ghosts of trees that had died the Joshuas writhed in agony, casting deformed, appealing arms aloft.

    Dear Carl Ginny Woods 2010

  • Your point nevertheless seems to involve an incredible subtlety, namely that the reader was supposed to pick up from the pronouns used that this Joshua was identified with Yahweh while other Joshuas were not.

    HANDS Across the Godhead? James F. McGrath 2010

  • In Britain Abigails and Sophies, Matthews and Emmas have surged up only to sink away again in great tides, with mysterious crosscurrents and undertowds of Joshuas, and eddies of Eddies … The frank copying of first names from the movies or television does, of course, happen.

    a round O says I feel : Stephen Burt : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

  • If King was Moses who couldn't get to the Promised Land with us, then Jackson, Sharpton, and Obama – and Maxine Waters, Carolyn Cheek Kilpatrick, Marian Wright Edelman and many, many more – may be the Joshuas to take us further still.

    'April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Death and How it Changed America' 2008

  • Obama's historic quest for the presidency ... has also revealed the complicated politics of race for the Joshuas who seek to blaze a path toward the Promised Land.

    Creepy, Sexy, Cool 2008

  • But it was left to the Joshuas to finish the journey Moses had begun and today we're called to be the Joshuas of our time, to be the generation that finds our way across this river.

    CNN Transcript Mar 4, 2007 2007

  • Oh and in contradiction of Joshuas statement when HP shipped out a batch of PCs with faulty PSUs they at least sent the replacements out prior to them failing

    Dear Mr. Dell « BuzzMachine 2005

  • Three Joshuas: Beckman, Clover and Corey china town bus

    Oops, and more on reviewing Lemon Hound 2006

  • Three Joshuas: Beckman, Clover and Corey china town bus

    LEMON HOUND Lemon Hound 2006

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