widow's cruse
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of widow's cruse
First recorded in 1600–10
Example Sentences
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The other 17 were dry as the widow's cruse, were rapidly deteriorating into a useless mass of rust.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the U.S. today, he adds grimly, "There is no widow's cruse."
From Time Magazine Archive
Notwithstanding a course like this, her husband has grown rich, and proves that the pattern of the widow's cruse was not lost in Jewry.
From Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II by Fuller, Margaret
Never before in all his life had he known the widow's cruse.
From The Broken Gate A Novel by Hough, Emerson
It is the only instance that I know of in modern times of the repetition of the miracle of the widow's cruse.
From Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 by Hoar, George Frisbie
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