pottage造句
1. He was eating a mess of pottage and taking deep gulps of wine from a large ornamental cup.
2. The child was eating pottage from a porringer.
3. A choice of pottage ( thick soup ) or consomm é ( clear soup ).
4. A nice mess of pottage was served at the beginning.
5. Prettiness makes no pottage.
6. I know him not should I meet him in my pottage dish.
7. I expect he found he'd sold his working-class birthright for a mess of Bloomsbury pottage.
8. The Russians have long regretted selling Alaska to the Americans for a mess of pottage.
9. B : Do you think I'll depart from my correct stand just for a mess of pottage?
10. Voters have thrice said no to this mess of pottage.
11. Cynics will say that they have sold their liberties for a mess of pottage.
12. Man sacrifices his individuality, his " birthright , " for a pottage of lentils.
13. Esau sold his birthright to Jacob for a mess of pottage.