 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
 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 578 pages
...morsel of bread in thine hand. And ehe said, A» the Lord thy God liveth, I huve not a cake, but an said unto her, 1 am the resurrection and the life cruse ; and behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that... | |
 | John Watkins - 1833 - 526 pages
...last morsel of bread from herself and her child, was too much. Still her answer was respectful : " 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 ; and behold I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that... | |
 | George Robert Gleig - Bible - 1833 - 298 pages
...that she was herself on the eve of starvation, for that her entire worldly sub«tance_ consisted of a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruise, " of which she intended that very day to make a cake that she and her son might eat it and... | |
 | William Stevens (biographer.) - 1833 - 786 pages
...deprivation through the famine ; for she said, As Jehovah, thy God liveth, I haver 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 sun, that... | |
 | rev William Ellis - 298 pages
...tell him all ; perhaps my distress may move his compassion, and he will spare me." 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; and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that... | |
 | Joseph Hall - Bible - 1834 - 492 pages
...She sticks not at the water ; she would not stick at the bread if necessity had not pressed her. " 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... | |
 | Mary W. Howland - Education - 1834 - 288 pages
...bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand. And she said, I have no bread, I have nothing but a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse; and see, I am gathering these sticks that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Bible - 1834 - 276 pages
...morsel of bread in thine hand. 12 And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, 1 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... | |
 | 1835 - 1176 pages
...called to her, and said. Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand. 12. And she said, and Phallu, Hezron, and Carmi : these I if. the families of Reuben. 1 5. cruse : and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that... | |
 | British and foreign sailors' society - 1837 - 442 pages
...been soon in the condition of the poor widow of Sarepta, when she told Elijah, that she " had only a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse, and that she was gathering two sticks, that she might dress it for herself and her son, and... | |
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