He might never live to enjoy his birthright; but the pottage was before him, present, certain, there.
Formerly called Pease Pottage Gate, from a turnpike-gate that spanned the Horsham road, the "Gate" has latterly been dropped.
Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright.
And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and there was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets.
Then, sitting down on the ground by the broken dish, he picked up the pottage as well as he could.
And he said to his servant, "Pottage of nettles give thou to me every night without butter, without a sip therewith.
Thou thyself are witness" said the man, "but unless it comes out of the stick with which the pottage is mixed, I know of nothing else therein save pottage only.
Once it came to pass as he was going round the graveyard in Iona that he saw an old woman cutting nettles to make pottage thereof.
And he bores the mixing stick of the pottage so that it became a pipe, and he used to pour the milk into that pipe and mix it all through the pottage.
My lord," replied the adventurer, "when each of us shewed our skill in what was demanded, you ordered him only an allowance of a mess of pottage and three cakes of bread.
The sultan was now convinced of his skill, dismissed him graciously, and commanded that he should be allowed a mess of pottage and three cakes of bread daily, which was done accordingly.
The sultan then released him, and said, "Take him back to his companions, allow him a mess of pottage to himself, and two cakes of bread.
The sultan had no sooner eaten part of the pottage than he felt an inclination to repose, and sunk into a refreshing sleep, which lasted for some hours.
He then allotted them an apartment, with an allowance of three cakes of bread and a mess of pottage daily; but placed spies over them, fearing lest they might escape.
His every act had expressed his contempt of it, and the sale of the birthright for a mess of pottage but completed the witness that he was a profane person, a pagan at heart.
What good shall this birthright do to me, said the hungry hunter, mad for the mess of pottage which the thrifty Jacob sold.
What good shall this birthright do to me, he moaned when the mess of pottage steamed before his hungry senses; and the crown rolled in the dust.
In necessitie they eat a thousand rifraffes, euen to the swallowing downe of coales, and putting sand into the pottage that they make with this meale.
It may be that he finds he is not good at making pottage and I should do well to help him.
When he got the door open, he did not stay long in the room, but ran out, and the herrings and pottage came after him, and it streamed out over both farm and field.
The man twisted and turned it, and did all he could to make the mill stop, but, howsoever he turned it and screwed it, the mill went on grinding, and in a short time the pottagerose so high that the man was like to be drowned.
So they began to straggle homeward, but when they had got a little way up the hill they met the herrings and pottage and bread, all pouring forth and winding about one over the other, and the man himself in front of the flood.
So he threw open the parlor door, but it was not long before the mill had ground the parlor full too, and it was with difficulty and danger that the man could go through the stream of pottage and get hold of the door-latch.
Then he spread out his two gaunt arms and closed his eyes and cried: "Oh, Esau, Esau, you were faint and hungry in that elder day when you drank the red pottage and sold your birthright.
Oh, Esau, Esau, what a pottage it was that you drank in the elder day!
I vowed I would make him eat bitter pottage ere a week were over; and I ask you not to do aught that can hurt him.
Take your choice of them, and stuff his pottage and the first two dishes full of it.
The goodwife one morning making pottage for the children's breakfasts had the tree-plate, wherein the meal lay, snatched from her quickly.
The judicious prelate will prefer a drop of the sincere milk of the word before vessels full of traditionary pottage resenting of the wild gourd of human invention.
Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils.
Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets.
Joseph's mess of pottage which he sold to Esau for his birthright was a preparation of the red Lentil: and the same food was the bread of Ezekiel.
Also the leaves when boiled in pottage or broths for sick and feeble persons that have hot, weak, and feeble stomachs, do strengthen the same.
Poivre declares that he never eat anything more fortifying than a pottage made with these nests and some good meat.
Immense coppers contained the pottage and boiled meat, and monster gridirons, on four wheels, covered vast braziers.
It is to be noted that the Epitome rendering of what in the Authorised Version appears as red pottage is un plat de lentilles.
Red pottage had become invested with an almost mystical quality.
I lighted a fire, and made him some hot pottage myself.
Mabel hastened to obey, and set a mess of hot pottage and other viands before him.
With those, and good pottage inough hauing than: thou winnest the heart, of thy laboring man.
Let huswife be caruer, let[1] pottage be heate, a messe to eche one, with a morsell of meate.
The people gather and boyl them to make sour pottage to quench the thirst.
The great ones have always five or fix sorts of food at one meal, and of them not above one or two at most of Flesh or Fish, end of them more pottage than meat, after the Portugal fashion.
It is better to a sick man than meat, for a sick man will sooner eat pottage than meat.
For first, there is in kitchen pottage good water to make them so; on the contrary, in the otherpottage there is the water of life.
These, and many other holy herbs are contained in it, all boiling in the heart of man, will make as good pottage as the world can afford, especially if you use these herbs for digestion.
And as in kitchen pottage there are many good herbs, so there is likewise in this church pottage, as ye call it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pottage" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bisque; bouillabaisse; broth; chowder; consomme; gumbo; puree; soup; stock
