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Seth   /sɛθ/   Listen
Seth

noun
1.
(Old Testament) third son of Adam and Eve; given by God in place of the murdered Abel.
2.
Evil Egyptian god with the head of a beast that has high square ears and a long snout; brother and murderer of Osiris.  Synonym: Set.



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"Seth" Quotes from Famous Books



... crop I raised on that east field, where you see those scrub pines, was in 1881. I finished cultivating corn there the day I heard about President Garfield being shot; and it was a mighty hot July day too. My neighbor, Seth Whitmore, who died about ten years ago, came along from the village and waited for me to come to the end of the row down by the road and he told me that Garfield was shot. We both allowed the corn would ...
— The Story of the Soil • Cyril G. Hopkins
... day, hev ye? Why, you're wet as sops. Draw up to the stove. I made a fire, hot as it was, thinkin' I wanted somethin' warm for my supper, bein' kind o' lonesome without mother. She's settin' up with Seth Strout to-night. There, we'll hang your soppy hat on the nail, put your jacket over the chair rail, an' then you turn your back to the ...
— Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... "Seth Moore, an' I'm always a private, but at present doin' sentinel duty, but wishin' I was at home in our double ...
— The Scouts of Stonewall • Joseph A. Altsheler
... may be a kerridge down to-night, an' there may not: there's no knowin'. Ef it don't rain too hard, I reckon Seth'll be down." ...
— Mercy Philbrick's Choice • Helen Hunt Jackson
... parted by some such mysterious barrier as sprang up between Talbot Bulstrode and Aurora Floyd, or an Adam Bede, in spite of the example set by George Eliot's hero, may refrain from marrying Dinah for fear of breaking his brother Seth's heart. ...
— Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics - With Some of Their Applications • William Thomas Thornton


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