And, when you come to think of it, Jacob's mess of pottage is the most expensive dish on record. From Wordnik.com. [Janey Canuck in the West] Reference
That's a popular delicacy, much more appealing to some tastes than "pottage" - especially when it is said to be a "mess". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference
Esau probably thought the pottage was a good exchange, too, but look how that turned out. From Wordnik.com. ["Joe D'oh Puts O in 'Crisis' Mode."] Reference
She then brought me a kind of pottage, which I was obliged to take, though not very palatable. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Woman] Reference
He sold them all, like Esau, for a mess of pottage. From Wordnik.com. [Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine] Reference
Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860] Reference
And millions to-day sell Him for "a mess of pottage.". From Wordnik.com. [Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America] Reference
She sells herself for a mess of pottage, whoever she is. From Wordnik.com. [Sane Sex Life and Sane Sex Living Some Things That All Sane People Ought to Know About Sex Nature and Sex Functioning; Its Place in the Economy of Life, Its Proper Training and Righteous Exercise] Reference
Said: Give me of this red pottage, for I am exceeding faint. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 01: Genesis The Challoner Revision] Reference
This pottage is very nourishing, and excellent good against a. From Wordnik.com. [The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery] Reference
An ', slid o' wastin 'pottage, he'd ha' eat it up an 'owed it. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862] Reference
We are constantly selling our birthright for a mess of pottage. From Wordnik.com. [A Girl Among the Anarchists] Reference
He has, like Esau, bartered his birthright for a mess of pottage. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Conduct] Reference
And Jacob boiled pottage: to whom Esau, coming faint out of the field. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 01: Genesis The Challoner Revision] Reference
"If the cow should have been already eaten, in a score of messes of pottage?". From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844] Reference
If he sells his birthright let it be for something more than a mess of pottage. From Wordnik.com. [The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915] Reference
I despised soldiers as men who had sold their birthright for a mess of pottage. From Wordnik.com. [A Student in Arms Second Series] Reference
"Cut it in two," he answered, "and season our pottage with one-half of it at a time.". From Wordnik.com. [Folk-Lore and Legends: North American Indian] Reference
"I'd sell my birthright for a mess of pottage with pleasure this minute," he exclaimed. From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Twins] Reference
Their gifts to the Infant are a bell, a flask, a spoon to eat pottage with, and a cape. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan] Reference
It seemed to her as though he were yielding his birthright in exchange for a mess of pottage. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon out of Reach] Reference
We do not think so meanly of our country that we are willing to sell it for a mess of pottage. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario High School Reader] Reference
It was only a small mess of pottage -- some chops, a cup of real coffee, some after-dinner mints. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
The pottage was first served, and when this course was eaten, the vessels and spoons were removed. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
No man can do justice to a mess of pottage by lying on his belly at a distance and frowning at it. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, March 7, 1917] Reference
They were altogether too independent and honorable to barter their class vote for a mess of pottage. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore] Reference
Not to be guided by their wisdom is to forfeit our birthright, like Esau, for a mere mess of pottage. From Wordnik.com. [Problems of Conduct] Reference
In just one day, some 7,500 customers "agreed" to hand over their souls for a mess of virtual pottage. From Wordnik.com. [Video Game Tort:] Reference
Nothing is more idle than to sell one's soul for a mess of pottage; for the pottage is not worth the price. From Wordnik.com. [The Life Radiant] Reference
Look for us at twelve-thirty sharp and prepare an extra mess of pottage, for we'll both be fearfully hungry. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Pat at School] Reference
Indeed, we can hardly consent to sell our birthright for so poor a mess of pottage as this petty jealousy offers. From Wordnik.com. [Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles] Reference
For if such, and such only, be his inalienable birthright, were it not most wisely exchanged for a mess of pottage?. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
Part of it he burnt with fire, and with part of it he dressed his meat: he boiled pottage, and was filled, and was warmed, and said. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete] Reference
Part of it he burnt with fire, and with part of it he dressed his meat: he boiled pottage, and was filled, and was warmed, and said: Aha. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 27: Isaias The Challoner Revision] Reference
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