As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse; and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it and die. The Sermons of Mr. Yorick - Page 96by Laurence Sterne - 1766Full view - About this book
| Hugh Worthington - Sermons, English - 1822 - 556 pages
...bread in thy hand." A full disclosure of all her misery was now absolutely necessary, and she said, " As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but...handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse." ' This is the whole of my little stock, and this will not long support life in myself and child.'... | |
| 1822 - 588 pages
...felt, as we seo by the woman's answer to JHsJijah when he besought her to give him a morsel of bread. " As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but a handful of meal, and a little oil in a cruise, and behold 1 am gathering two sticks that I may go in, and dress it for... | |
| Isaac Watts - Bible - 1822 - 356 pages
...up ? A. God sent him to a woman of Sarepta, near Sidon, to be maintained by her, when she had only a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse, 1 Kings xvii. 9, &c. 16 Q. How could this maintain the woman, her son, and the prophet ? A.... | |
| Charles Bradley - 1823 - 508 pages
...she would not stick at the bread, if necessity had not pressed her; ' As the Lord thy God liveth, 1 have not a cake, but a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse ; and behold, 1 am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it, for me and my son, that... | |
| Congregational churches - 1828 - 594 pages
...land. Elias was sent by Jehovah to a widow of Sidon, whose whole stock of provision was reduced to a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruise? He was divinely commissioned to assure her that the meal should not •waste, nor the oil fail... | |
| Lady - Bible - 1824 - 452 pages
...to her for a little water and a morsel of bread : " As the Lord liveth," said she, " 1 have but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse, and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that... | |
| William Carus Wilson - 1829 - 304 pages
...to go and fetch him "a little water and a morsel of bread." She told him her poverty: "I have but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruise : and behold I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that... | |
| George Paxton - 1825 - 578 pages
...is constantly employed to signify a few, or very few. Thus, the widow woman said to the prophet ; " As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake but...handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruise : And behold I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that... | |
| Richard Cecil - Theology - 1825 - 436 pages
...morsel of bread in thy hand. And she told him her circumstances, and said, As the Lord thy God livcth, I have not a cake, but a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruise : and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that... | |
| William Carpenter - Bible - 1825 - 630 pages
...morsel of bread in thine hand. And she said, As the I. n mi thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse : and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that... | |
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