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Then Manuel said, as Helmas had directed: "Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal, ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallow deer, and fatted fowl. But Elijah the Tishbite was fed by ravens that brought him bread and flesh." Again the tall flames guttered.
And he said unto them, What manner of man was he which came up to meet you, and told you these words? And they answered him, He was an hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite. Then the king sent unto him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And he went up to him and, behold, he sat on the top of an hill.
"Oh, no, dear, you've turned it around, and put the and in the wrong place. It is 'And Elijah the Tishbite, just as we'd say William the Norman or Manuel the Portuguese." "Well, for pity sakes!" drawled Georgina in a long, slow breath of relief. "Is that all? I wish I'd known it long ago. It would have saved me a lot of scary feelings."
Solomon was the wisest man as ever lived, and Job the most patient the same as I be and Elijah, the Tishbite, the most justest." "You better finish up with all the Psalms of David, and the Holy Children, and the Burial Service. No more call for Parson Twemlow, or the new Churchwarden come in place of Cheeseman, because 'a tried to hang his self. Zebedee Tugwell in the pulpit!
A slight purple tinge manifested itself in Mr. Wheeler's round and rosy face. His eyes bulged. "What are you talking about, you Tishbite? You misguided son of Belial, are you under the impression that I painted that thing?" "Didn't you?" Mr. Wheeler swallowed a little convulsively. "My fiancee painted it," he said shortly. "Your fiancee? My dear old lad, I didn't know you were engaged. Who is she?
Perhaps, like that other god of whom the ironical Tishbite spoke, he was talking, or he was pursuing, or he was in a journey, or he was sleeping and not to be awaked.
The king cried, "It is Elijah the Tishbite." Again his enemy had found him! Whereupon Ahaziah sent a band of fifty chosen soldiers to arrest the prophet, who had retired to the top of a steep and rugged hill, probably Carmel. The captain of the troop approached, and commanded him in the name of the king to come down, addressing him as the man of God.
At the same moment, Georgina, before putting back the plug, paused, looked all around, and poured out a few grains into her own hand. If the Tishbite was going to do anybody any harm, it would be well to be prepared. She had just hastily swallowed it and was hanging the horn back in place, when Richard returned. "He lapped up the last drop as if he liked it," he reported.
It was no dead man, no creature of clay, whom the blessed Tishbite invoked, when, stung by the reproach of the Shunamite woman, he prayed that her son's soul might come into him again." "It was by his intercession, however," repeated the Sub-Prior; "for what says the Vulgate?
And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all things as did the Amorites, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel. And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly. And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
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