45 examples of cruse in sentences

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.

" "Take him, my son, and a cruse of holy water to boot," the Pope responded.

And Nausicaa brought from her chamber all her vestments, and laid them up in the coach, and her mother placed bread and wine in the coach, and oil in a golden cruse, to soften the bright skins of Nausicaa and her maids when they came out of the river.

He shall pay for the blood-shed, my guestes shall take no wrong; mine Host will spend his Cruse as franke as an Emperor; welcome, my brave bullies. Ser.

By-and-by he saw Janet come out with her cruse, and walk as lightly as her huge body would permit.

"Aunt Polly's chest is like the widow's cruse," said Mrs. Carteret, "which was never empty.

All she had in the world was a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse, and that she was gathering a few sticks, that she might go and bake the last cake for herself and her son, that they might eat it and die.

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.

Then she pours out the oil from the cruse, and drains out the last drop.

Then she returns to the empty barrel and cruse, and finds as much in them as she had lately taken out.

" "Is thy cruse of comfort wasting? Rise, and share it with another; And through all the years of famine, It shall serve thee and thy brother.

Augustus had been at College during that bright brief period of the attempted apotheosis of the dirty-minded little Decadent whose stock in trade was a few Aubrey Beardsley drawings, a widow's-cruse-like bottle of Green Chartreuse, an Oscar Wilde book, some dubious blue china, some floppy ties, an assortment of second-hand epigrams, scent and scented tobacco, a nil admirari attitude and long weird hair.

WATSON, VIRGINIA CRUSE.

Virginia Cruse Watson (A); 25May64; R338357.

CRUSE, MARJORIE H. Apache days and after.

SEE Cruse, Thomas.

CRUSE, THOMAS.

Marjorie H. Cruse (W); 27Jan69; R454508. CULBERTSON, ELY.

WATSON, VIRGINIA CRUSE.

Virginia Cruse Watson (A); 25May64; R338357.

CRUSE, MARJORIE H. Apache days and after.

SEE Cruse, Thomas.

CRUSE, THOMAS.

Marjorie H. Cruse (W); 27Jan69; R454508. CULBERTSON, ELY.

And by it, in the due receptacle, The little rude brown lamp of earthenware, The cruse, was meant for flowers, but held the blood, The rough-scratched palm-branch, and the legend left Pro Christo.

45 examples of  cruse  in sentences