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- noun Plural form of
Nebuchadnezzar .
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Examples
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Nebuchadnezzars, by too much indulging to these pleasing humours, and through their own default.
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'Like so many Nebuchadnezzars,' suggested Cargrim, always scriptural.
The Bishop's Secret Fergus Hume 1895
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Versailles with us, and, when a group of Germans talked their guttural way towards us, he had us all down on our knees, before we knew it, nibbling at the grass like so many Nebuchadnezzars escaped from
Nights Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties Elizabeth Robins Pennell 1895
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Several of each family had bitten the grass, and it was expected that more Nebuchadnezzars would follow.
Whirligigs O. Henry 1886
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The people were Nebuchadnezzars; they bit the grass before me; there was no dust in the town for them to bite.
Roads of Destiny O. Henry 1886
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The Nebuchadnezzars are God's axes with which He hews down fruitless trees.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes Alexander Maclaren 1868
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He went prepared to witness fearful rites, but when he got there he found it wasn’t the genuine thing at all, but the yearly outing of the Latter Day Nebuchadnezzars, the famous grass-eating society.
Mystery Mile Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1930
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He went prepared to witness fearful rites, but when he got there he found it wasn’t the genuine thing at all, but the yearly outing of the Latter Day Nebuchadnezzars, the famous grass-eating society.
Mystery Mile Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1930
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