agag-like

Updated: May 2, 2025

Then the Doctor would approach with Agag-like delicacy, and, extending his hand to the shyest and most loutish boy, would say, "Must you go? Can't you stay?" and the party broke up with magical celerity. Such, at least, was our Harrovian tradition.

George William Erskine Russell - Collections and Recollections

Again, they would say this summer that they would knock all the rogues in the head, or drive them into the sea, or make them fly the country; thinking surely, Agag-like, "The bitterness of Death is past."

Mary White Rowlandson - Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson