Samsons

Rembrandt painted a good many "Samsons" first and last -- himself evidently being the strong man; and the pictures beyond doubt express his own mood and his idea of his relation to things.

Pictures Every Child Should Know A Selection of the World's Art Masterpieces for Young People Mary Schell Hoke Bacon 1902

At least it stirs the soul of the leadership of the Republican party in this city, who seem to imagine themselves as unjustly imprisoned Samsons, eager -- once their hair grows out -- to take revenge on progressive Delilah and bring the entire structure of America down around their heads in ruin.

Carl Pope: The Fierce Urgency of Never 2009

That said, there is an awful lot of ruibbish being written by the diehards who want to portray Israel as Goliath among a million Samsons.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

Good old Spludgus, that Venusian breed so rich in vitamin content that it turned our puny little Earthmen into muscle-bound Samsons in a month.

Super Salesman of Space Dave Tackett 2008

Good old Spludgus, that Venusian breed so rich in vitamin content that it turned our puny little Earthmen into muscle-bound Samsons in a month.

Archive 2008-12-01 Dave Tackett 2008

Anti-Samsons: Unshaven Welshmen, unlike the unshaven Samson, have weaker hearts and minds than their smooth-skinned brethern.

Archive 2003-02-01 2003

Mansoul, what do they but, like so many Samsons, they shake themselves, and come together to consult and contrive how to defeat those bold and hellish contrivances that were upon the wheel by the means of Diabolus and his friends against the now sickly, weakly, and much impoverished town of

The Holy War 2001

Samsons that we are, it was always the women who broke through the bulkhead to get in among the sailors, lusting after men!

Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

Samsons that we are, it was always the women who broke through the bulkhead to get in among the sailors, lusting after men!

Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

Both were mental Samsons -- giants among the crowd of those who never see a yard beyond their own narrow scope of vision.

Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman Giberne Sieveking