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.