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This, then, is the main thing in the parable. It is an exhibition, under another aspect, of what constitutes fitness for entrance into the festal chamber of the bridegroom, which had just been set forth as consisting in faithful stewardship. Here it is presented as being the possession of lamp and oil. I. The first consideration, then, must be, What is the meaning of these emblems?
Right away the west wind blew a little whiff of the rich seal oil in front of his nose, and almost before he knew it, Little White Fox was standing in front of the little house that Omnok built, wondering how it came there and how there happened to be such delicious looking meat inside of it.
Hastily dressing, she had stolen on tiptoe down the broad stairway by the running water and out into the night, carrying a tiny Greek lamp with a single flame, clear, as only the flame of olive oil can be. She had put the lamp down in the doorway, and it was burning there now, a beacon to guide her footsteps when she wanted to return.
Almost anybody used to reading the blind books can read the embossed Morse messages with the finger, and so this message was read at all the midnight way-stations where no night-work is expected, and where the companies do not supply fluid or oil.
They are, however, eaten by them, and when cooked with the oil and pulp of the palm-nut considered a highly palatable morsel. "They exhibit a remarkable degree of intelligence in their habits, and, on the part of the mother, much affection for their young. Her first impulse was to descend with great rapidity, and make off into the thicket, with her mate and female offspring.
Imagine a person who has lived in this oil country and hasn't seen a well!" The program was carried out, and the Misses Saunders thoroughly enjoyed the long day spent among the wells. They thought the machinery wonderful, as indeed it was, and marveled at the miles of pipe line.
Cynthia and I felt our way along, while Greeley stayed with the horse the beast acted like a fiend and then we saw a light: your light! No other man in The Hollow wastes oil like you and here we are!" At this Treadwell made himself evident. Turning sharply, he met the big, lovely eyes of the girl beside the talkative little woman.
Finally, it has been decided that if one man mixes something with another's win or oil, so as to spoil its natural goodness, he is liable under this chapter of the statute.
Did He promise to give beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness unto them that mourn in Zion, and will He refuse to beautify the mind, anoint the head, and throw around the captive negro the mantle of praise for that spirit of heaviness which has so long bound him down to the ground?
"Do they mash 'em, like making apples into cider?" asked Malcolm. "Something like that; and the olive-farmers take the most anxious care of their orchards, for they know that the more olives the more oil.
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