If necessary, God can make the barrel of meal and the cruse of oil as unfailing now as in the days of Elijah the Tishbite.
Elijah had raised the widow's dead son, and had kept her cruse of oil and her barrel of meal replenished; so that the famine came not nigh her door.
Our troubled thoughts find vent in earnest prayer; and whether we lie stretched on the bed of languishing, or wrestle in the closet, or meditate in the sanctuary, we find the water cruse is beside us, and we are kept from fainting.
A cake baken on the coals is beside him, and the cruse of water, to refresh him and keep him from destruction.
We shall all of us need the cruse of water and the cake ere we get through, for we have no abiding place here.
Our entertainment to-day is as simple as the prophet's rude meal which he ate beneath the juniper-tree; but remember, that but for that water cruse and baken cake he would have perished in the lonely solitudes.
Beware how you turn a cold shoulder to the simple cruse of water which God sends down to you, for he tells you that the journey is too great for you.
Behold, ye who are desponding, ye who are wayworn, ye who are despairing beneath the juniper-tree, the cruse of water is beside you.
Oh, it is when, under the load of crushing sorrow and dejection, the wanderer sinks down by the shrub of the desert, it is then he prizes the cruse and the cake.
The cake is there, and the cruse of water is there, and the coals are glowing, but the pilgrim heeds them not.
Take the cruse of water and the cake to-day, for it may be long before you have another opportunity.
Without his friendly touch, he would doubtless have slept on, and death closed the scene ere the day dawned, and the cruse of water and the cake have been in vain.
Matthew says she had "an alabaster cruse of precious ointment," which Mark explains was "spikenard very costly.
Him a woman having an alabaster cruse of exceeding precious ointment, and she poured it upon his head, as He sat at meat.
But there was Fletcher looking on the corpse of his wife, and waving over her face the light of the smallcruse he held in his hand!
And take with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of honey, and go to him: he shall tell thee what shall become of the child.
For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the LORD sendeth rain upon the earth.
And he looked, and, behold, there was a cake baken on the coals, and a cruse of water at his head.
And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Elijah.
The barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, till the Lord sent rain upon the earth, and her wants could be supplied in the usual way.
For thus saith the Lord God of Israel, the barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the Lord sendeth rain upon the earth.
The light of a hanging cruse lamp shone upon his long red hair and beard.
The hall was lighted with many cruse lamps that hung suspended from the oaken joists, and, lest the evening should be chill, there was a fire of fragrant pine logs blazing on the open hearth.
A crowd of the men and women of the castle were there with her, holding torches and lighted cruse lamps over the body of the dead lord of Bute.
Then drawing aside a curtain that shut off a side chamber in the rocky walls, she held up a lighted cruse lamp and looked for a few silent moments upon the sleeping form of Elspeth Blackfell.
The cruse lamps hanging from the high rafters shed their dim light upon the bare stone walls, where branches of red-berried holly were entwined with tufts of larch and spruce and sprays of mistletoe.
At this moment the last remaining cruselight flickered, burned blue, flickered again, and then went out.
Two of the cruse lamps had by this time spent their oil, and their flames had died out.
And now see where the king's spear is, and the cruse of water that was at his bolster.
My Lady Madison may scarce be as content as thou with the cruse and the cake, and in all cases, two lack more provision than one.
I lack but a cake and a cruse of water, and He can send them by His angels when my need asketh them of Him.
Having used their cotton with moderation, they have at the close of each six months seen their stocks of raw material and goods, by the rise of prices, undiminished in value, and blessed like the widow's cruse of oil.
He found the basket of figs and cruse of wine as fresh as when he died, but his ass was a mass of bones.
The cruse employed by St. Remi in the baptism of Clovis was used through the French monarchy in the anointing of all the kings.
The next miraculous feat of Elijah was that of increasing a widow's barrel of meal and cruse of oil after they were nearly exhausted, so that they lasted for many months.
The next achievement of Elijah, after eating a barley cake, baked on the coals, and drinking a cruse of water (1 Kings xix.
Yes, of course I will go, since Father Cruse wishes it.
I heard Father Cruse tell ye to keep an eye out for her if she ever came around here agin.
She was the kind of woman whom Murford said Father Cruse helped.
He had himself under perfect control again, and might have been a man bent only on aiding Father Cruse in some charitable work.
Father Cruse waited until the footsteps had ceased to echo in the corridor, and then turned to Lady Barbara.
I been waitin' for Father Cruse to get hold of ye, and I'm goin' to say what's in my mind.
To waste therefore, the valuable time of Father Cruse with no more information than he at present possessed would be as inconsiderate as it was foolish.
For thus saith the God of Israel, 'Thy barrel of meal shall not waste, nor thy cruse of oil fail, until the day that He sendeth rain upon the earth.
And we are told that after that her barrel never lacked meal, neither did the oil in her cruse fail, according as the prophet had said; and Elijah stayed with the woman at her humble home.
Neither whistling minies, nor shrieking shells, nor forced marches with no meal in the barrel nor oil in the cruse ever seemed to disturb his equanimity in the slightest degree.
Yet half a loaf, and a cruse nearly filled with water.
The second day passed, and Martin's bread and cruse yet held out.
So night fell; and they took him into a hut, pointing to a cruse of water and a mantle spread in the corner, but withdrawing in the same sad silence, calm and grave, like those who mourn for the dead.
There is yet a morsel of bread and a cruse of water in that dungeon where you passed the day.
And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail.
For thus saith the Lord God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the Lord sendeth rain upon the earth.
If thou look for the king's spear and his cruse of water, thou wilt learn what a mighty misfortune was ready to overtake you in your very camp without your knowing it.
The Lord shall smite him, or his day shall come to die, or he shall fall in battle and perish; but take thou now the spear that is at his pillow, and the cruse of water, and let us go.
He did not deny that the barrel and cruse were almost empty, as the woman had said.
For thus saith the Lord God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the Lord sendeth rain upon the earth.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cruse" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
