Gather up a few gleanings from the field, and beat them out, that it may be found that Ruth had at least "one ephah of barley."
"Around The Tea-Table"
T. De Witt Talmage
And the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?
"White Slaves"
Louis A Banks
Let me see; here is what I was looking for," and he began reading; "One would think, to hear these landlords, our rulers, talk, that the glorious green fields, the deep woods the everlasting hills, and the rivers that run among them, were made for the sole purpose of ministering to their greedy lusts and mean ambitions; that they may roll out amongst unrealities their pitiful mock lives, from their silk and lace cradles to their spangled coffins, studded with silver knobs, and lying coats of arms, reaping where they have not sown, and gathering where they have not strewed, making the omer small and the ephah great, that they may sell the refuse of the wheat-" "That'll do, Jack; but what's the date of that paper?"
"Tom Brown at Oxford"
Thomas Hughes