Belshazzar is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BELSHAZZAR in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a large wine bottle containing 2.80 gallons, also BALTHASAR, BALTHAZAR
• (Old Testament) Babylonian general and son of Nebuchadnezzar II; according to the Old Testament he was warned of his doom by divine handwriting on the wall that was interpreted by Daniel (6th century BC)
• a large wine bottle containing 2.80 gallons

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How to use BELSHAZZAR in a sentence

• From the words of Daniel it appears that Belshazzar had made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
• By no hint can it be otherwise inferred, but that the appearance was solely confined to the fancy of Belshazzar, that his single brain was troubled.
• Henry Plantagenet will cast out the Valois from the throne they have defiled, as Darius cast out Belshazzar, for such is the desire and the intent of God.
• His son Belshazzar appears to have acted as regent during the latter part of the reign.
• Belshazzar had been slain, but Nabonidus still lived, and he was deported to Carmania.
• Deluded as they all were and blinded by pride and self-seeking, the same handwriting that told Belshazzar of disaster was on the wall, but they could not or would not see it.
• And so each man and each woman had a vessel from the temple of Jerusalem wherein to drink to the glory of Bel the god and of Belshazzar his prince.
• Slowly Belshazzar drained the cup to the dregs, while with half-closed eyes he listened to the uproar, and perhaps sneered to himself behind the chalice, as was his wont.
• And thou his son, O Belshazzar, sayes he, hast not humbled thy heart, though thou knewest all this.
• The scene should be lighted by a brilliant red fire burned at the side of the stage opposite Belshazzar.
• Much the same thing must have marked the breaking up of the feast of Belshazzar.
• Thus in my own volume, Belshazzar is not treated so much as an historical character, but rather as the personification of the pride and haughtiness of a voluptuous king.
• This was a small human hand, in the act of lifting pieces of fuel into the fire, but for all that could be seen the hand, like that which troubled Belshazzar, was there alone.
• Cyrus the Persian took Babylon, Belshazzar was slain, the great Assyrian power passed away, and the second great world-empire, the Persian empire, was built upon its ruins.
• Belshazzar, if from no other motive than fear, gave all encouragement to this kind of improvement, and during his reign prodigious works of this nature were completed.
• Belshazzar and his counselors, considering themselves secure, gave way to their depraved appetites.
• Belshazzar, the king, made a feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
• He plunged into dissipation as recklessly as Belshazzar of old went to that last feast in Babylon.
• Myrtle was seated at it picking out an air from Belshazzar.
• Certainly Belshazzar, on his night of doom, could hardly have presented a more pitiful front than Robert Belcher, as all eyes were turned upon him.
• Babylon was the embodiment and type of the godless world-power, and Belshazzar was the incarnation of the spirit which made Babylon.
• Further, Belshazzar was carousing while the Medes and Persians were ringing Babylon round, and his hand should have been grasping a sword, not a wine-cup.

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