Brought beds, and basons, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched corn, and beans, and lentiles, and parched pulse,

It was the proverbial match thrown by a careless smoker into a parched forest.

brought beds, basins, earthen vessels, wheat, barley, meal, parched grain, beans, lentils, roasted grain,

I spread forth my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land. Selah.

Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.

No Maoist group could ever gain a toehold in Afghanistan s parched Pashtun south (these were, after all, people who, bare knuckled, smashed the Soviets).

They ate unleavened cakes and parched grain of the produce of the land on the next day after the Passover, in the same day.

And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes, and parched corn in the selfsame day.

Have they not seen that We drive water to the parched land , thereby bringing forth crops which they and their cattle eat ? Are they unable to see ?

Do they not see how We drive the water to the parched lands and bring forth therefrom crops from which their cattle and themselves eat ? Will they not see !

And Jesse said unto David his son, Take now for thy brethren an ephah of this parched corn, and these ten loaves, and run to the camp to thy brethren

And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.

Jesse said to David his son, Now take for your brothers an ephah of this parched grain, and these ten loaves, and carry them quickly to the camp to your brothers

Do they not see that We carry water to the parched earth and with it We bring forth crops , from which they eat , themselves and their cattle ? Will they not then see ?

And do they not see that We do drive rain to parched soil ( bare of herbage ) , and produce therewith crops , providing food for their cattle and themselves ? Have they not the vision ?

For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.

For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.

'If you offer a meal offering of first fruits to Yahweh, you shall offer for the meal offering of your first fruits grain in the ear parched with fire, bruised grain of the fresh ear.

Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two bottles of wine, five sheep ready dressed, five measures of parched grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys.

And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

At meal time Boaz said to her, Come here, and eat of the bread, and dip your morsel in the vinegar. She sat beside the reapers, and they reached her parched grain, and she ate, and was satisfied, and left some of it.

And Boaz said unto her, At mealtime come thou hither, and eat of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. And she sat beside the reapers and he reached her parched corn, and she did eat, and was sufficed, and left.

Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.

Irrigation systems remain crude and inadequate to confronting the vicissitudes of rainfall on the often parched and barren Korean peninsula. This neglect has left North Koreans perpetually on the edge of survival and often with their palms extended to the international community, especially the South.

Diversion of the Brahmaputra s water to the parched Yellow river is an idea that China does not discuss in public, because the project implies environmental devastation of India s northeastern plains and eastern Bangladesh, and would thus be akin to a declaration of water war on India and Bangladesh.