This is especially noticeable in the tableau of the Fall of Manna in the Wilderness, which is one of the finest of the Play.
Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.
Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, 'He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.
Manna cooled his swollen cheeks with wet earth while they waited.
But Manna would hold on to Pelle's shoulder and throw her foot into his lap, so that he could button her boots.
Manna came toward him, thrust her body impatiently against the stone wall, and motioned to him with her lips.
But Manna looked at him with an expression exactly like Jeppe's when he was criticizing somebody from his standpoint as a respectable citizen.
Manna shook her hair back and looked at him fixedly.
Manna was no ordinary cry-baby; not one who seeks to escape the consequences of her action by a display of tears.
But Manna and her sisters were something apart; he was still enough of a child to play, and they were excellent playmates.
Then he was left in peace; over at the back of the garden Manna and her two younger sisters were scrambling about the trellis, hanging on it and gazing steadfastly across the yard at him.
Manna had a necklace of white teeth, sharp and irregular, strung together in a haphazard way, which she maintained were human teeth, and she had the courage to wear them round her bare neck.
Manna took him hastily by the hand and drew him through the bushes.
On the following day Manna and the others called him, but he could not spring over the wall to join them; they had begun to turn up their noses at him and regard him critically.
Manna blinked her eyes triumphantly, while Dolores and Aina stood behind her and put out their tongues.
Manna had been confirmed a long time now; her skirts were halfway to the ground, and she walked soberly along the street, arm-in-arm with her girl friends.
Father Lasse, and the workshop, Manna and the young master's shining eyes--here was an end of them all.
She was quite the old Manna once more, and Pelle laughed.
Now and again the two younger would suddenly look over at Pelle, but they turned their eyes away again the moment he looked at them; and Manna was as grown-up and self-controlled as though he had never existed.
If I have manna in my constitution, I can attractmanna from Heaven.
But, ever since the days of Paracelsus, half-initiated mystics and bookworm occultists, have endeavored to discover what this manna really was.
The manna here spoken of does not specify any particular thing, but is of universal application, and is simply used as an unknown quantity, like x, y, z in mathematics.
Nay, was it not because, while the manna fell, there could be no lack of fish to fry, that they lingered forty years in a dreary wilderness?
One suspects that Hebrews gained the taste in the Desert of Sinai, for the manna that fell there was not monotonous to the palate as the sciolist supposes, but likewise mutable under volition.
Thou sentest them manna from heaven to be their food.
As I sent manna they had it in disdain, Thus of their welfare they many times complain.
MANNA There is a story of Bransby Williams, famous impersonator of Dickens's characters, which will come home to many of us in these days of food shortage.
So when a fat pig came wabbling and grunting toward his post, it was to Si like a vision of manna to the children of Israel in the wilderness.
They were certainly tempting to the eye, and he thought they were sent as mannawas supplied to the children of Israel in the wilderness.
It is of a mottled red or brown colour, of a firm consistency and sweet taste, resembling exactly in appearance, flavour, and colour, the mannaused medicinally in Europe.
Manna exudes in great abundance from the tree already mentioned, as constituting the firewood which the natives use in fishing by night.
Our alien nature remembers Egypt and the flesh-pots while yet the manna is in our mouths.
Our manna does not come to us every morning, but it comes once a year.
Désirée, applying for board, was manna in the wilderness.
Bread was rained around their caves and hiding-places, plenteous as the manna of old; and the Vaudois, like the Israelites, had but to gather and eat.
Shall God, indeed, the fowls and manna strew,-- My daily bread?
Let this food be Thy manna from heaven, and grant that this assemblage may be a concourse of Thy supreme ones.
It records that in the time of His youth He worshiped God in the temple at Jerusalem, that manna descended from heaven for His sustenance and that He uttered words immediately after His birth.
The Gospel does not record that the child Jesus spoke at birth or that God caused sustenance to descend from heaven for Him, but in the Qur’án it is repeatedly stated that God sent downmanna day by day as food for Him.
He gathers manna in the wilderness, he strikes the barren rock for the gushing moisture.
But just as the Israelites, when the need for manna was past, returned to ordinary food and found it good, so we too drifted back to our old content and began reluctantly to worship our old gods again.
We felt like the Israelites when they looked upon their manna the second day and found it full of worms, and we knew that we had gathered the food of angels in the sunlit spaces of the Umbrian plain.
They crossed the Red Sea in a wonderful way, and traveled for a long time through a wilderness, where God fed them day by day with manna from heaven.
He afflicted thee with want, and gave thee manna for thy food, which neither thou nor thy fathers knew: to shew that not in bread alone doth man live, but in every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God.
And the manna ceased after they ate of the corn of the land, neither did the children of Israel use that food any more, but they ate of the corn of the present year of the land of Chanaan.
And the children of Israel ate manna forty years, till they came to a habitable land: with this meat were they fed, until they reached the borders of the land of Chanaan.
And when the dew fell in the night upon the camp, the manna also fell with it.
And thou gavest them thy good Spirit to teach them, and thy manna thou didst not withhold from their mouth, and thou gavest them water for their thirst.
Now the mannawas like coriander seed, of the colour of bdellium.
And fed thee in the wilderness with manna which thy fathers knew not.
They had to wait some time before Sonnenkamp came, and Manna did not appear until some time afterwards.
Manna walked between the Professorin and the Major's wife.
Manna understood what this meant; but did the Superior, then, already know of her defection?
Don't be excited, Roland," said Eric, and there was a ringing tone in his voice that made Manna involuntarily raise her eyes to him.
There was frequently a sort of tournament in which they took part, and Manna sat, as it were, upon a dais to crown the victor.
There was no light in Manna's chamber, but Manna was standing at the window.
He looked keenly at Manna as he spoke, but she kept silence.
Manna waked from the sleep into which she had fallen in the midst of her anguish.
It seemed to him the right course that Manna should return for a short time, to take leave of her companions and the holy sisterhood quietly and considerately.
Manna pointed out to the child her parents and her brother.
Manna took the single seat under the weeping ash, that had been put in order for her again, and now she wondered why she had been so rude yesterday to Eric.
Manna bowed in congratulation, and Pranken referred in a cheerful way to the contrast there would be between his summer life as a husbandman, and his winter as chamberlain.
Manna arose, and Heimchen, who wanted to go with her, was bidden to remain; the child quietly seated herself again on her little stool under the beech-tree from which hung the picture of the Madonna.
On the next evening but one, when the Aunt and Manna went out upon the flat roof to look at the stars, they found an excellent telescope placed on a movable stand.
Corruption strews thick both earth and ocean; it is only the heavens that are pure, and man cannot live upon manna alone.
Israel is recorded: "Now our soul is dried away; there is nothing at all: we have nought save this manna to look to.
Here we read, as to the coming of the manna, that when the dew fell upon the camp at night the manna fell upon it, or with it.
In the course of time the manna had been, so to speak, glorified.
But the spirit of dissatisfaction grew apace, and the burden of the new complaint was: "We have nought but this manna to look to.
And so far from the people being satisfied, they complained that instead of the fish and onions, cucumbers and melons of Egypt, they had nothing but manna to eat.
And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land.
And their discontent with the manna soon became alarming to Moses.
But the manna may seem flat and tasteless, nevertheless; the road may seem long; the sun may scorch.
All that Manna Lou could tell me was that you had left the caravan near San Seritos, in California.
Spying the gorgeous scarlet and gold shawl, which in the long ago Manna Lou had given the girl, she took it and threw one fringed corner over Nan's left shoulder, fastening it in front at the belt.
Manna Lou was kinder to me than ever before, and she taught me to play on a banjo which she said had belonged to my father.
The caravan stopped and Manna Lou went out to tell the others what had happened.
Manna Lou was right in one way, Lady Red Bird, we cannot know, perhaps, but deep in the soul of each one of us has been implanted a faith and trust just as the poem tells.
It doesn't matter where my thoughts may start, they always wind up with wondering where Manna Lou is.
Manna Lou," the girl said softly that she need not awaken the sleeping Tirol, "I'm going for a little ride.
My Manna Lou taught me not to steal, and I have never taken even a flower that did not belong to me.
Why, Manna Lou," she whispered, "little Tirol looks happier than I ever saw him before.
She should have tried long ago to let Manna Lou know that all was well with her.
