 | Joshua Gilpin - 1827 - 560 pages
...length hung out ; and it was thus faintly reported by the prophet's messenger — Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand ! The appearance was not of magnitude enough to arrest the public attention ; but it satisfied Elijah as... | |
 | George Francis Lyon - 1828 - 348 pages
...one picture illustrating that portion of the First Book of Kings, xviii. 44, where " there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand," the Virgin Mary in a splendid mantle is represented as sitting on the top of this cloud, with her hands... | |
 | Thomas Wilson - 1846 - 498 pages
...which the prophet commanded his servant to go up and look seven times, and at the seventh there arose " a little cloud out of the sea like a man's hand." The same appearance still portends a " heaven black with clouds and wind and great rain." • The monks... | |
 | Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher - 1852 - 204 pages
...as a worm, now pray as a mite ; at the seventh time it will be said to thee, " Behold, there arises a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand ; the rain is at hand." Yes, we often do not ourselves see the answer to our prayers. Could we, like Elijah,... | |
 | 1858 - 448 pages
...said, Go again seven times. And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea like a man's hand." The great rain with black clouds and wind which soon came hurrying on and covered the heavens, are vrell... | |
 | James Harris (of King's sch, Chester.) - 1865 - 128 pages
...say. His sister is a little better to-day. We have had a very long walk this morning. " There ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand." The excursion train was a very long one : it did not reach the station until long after the time announced.... | |
 | 1870 - 876 pages
...returning, said, '' There ig nothing." The order was repeated, and at the seventh time he announced " a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand " — the token of deliverance, an abundant rain. Whatever views may be taken of monasticism as a system (and... | |
 | Robert Jamieson - 1884 - 1032 pages
...the sea tranquil. On the seventh he descried the sign of approaching rain. 44. Behold, there arlseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand — The clearness of the sky renders the smallest speck distinctly visible ; and this is in Palestine the uniform... | |
 | Frank Bertangue Green - 1886 - 468 pages
...did a day open more auspiciously. As the noon approached, symptoms of a coming storm appeared — " A little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand." The tempest of civil war burst upon us, and men's souls were sorely tried. Through the seething hate of... | |
 | Charles H. Banes - 1894 - 332 pages
...Christ Jesus." In the early part of his college life he became superintendent of a Sunday-school. It was "a little cloud out of the sea like a man's hand." The prophet's servant had looked again and again, and all he could discover was this speck on the sky.... | |
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Shakspere; but what is so remarkable is, that upon our 'new map' "there should have appeared to rise, like a little cloud out of the sea, "like a man's hand, the then unknown continent of Australia. 
