 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 Works of Laurence Sterne ... - Page 46by Laurence Sterne - 1780Full view - About this book
 | 1830 - 304 pages
...Wish you examples? In the ease of the widow of Zarrphath, you have a striking one.* She having only a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruise, for herself and son, though in the midst of famine, yet she generously divided this, her last... | |
 | 1831 - 676 pages
...of GinaUi, to make him king; and half VI And she said, .4s the LORD thy God liveth, followed Omri. I have not a cake, but a handful of meal in a bar22 Out ilie people that followed Omri prevailed! rel, and a tittle oil in a cruse and behold, 1... | |
 | Stephen Merrill - 1832 - 472 pages
...Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand. 12 And she said, 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 cruise ; and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that... | |
 | Manual - 1832 - 480 pages
...dried up, 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 ; but God wonderfully increased the oil and the meal, so that the barrel of meal wasted not,... | |
 | 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
...herself and her child, was too much. Still her answer was respectful : " 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... | |
 | George Robert Gleig - 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
...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 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... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1834 - 492 pages
...; 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 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... | |
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