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Sentences starting with cup

Cup Day is supreme it has no rival. [5]
Cup Day, and Cup Day only, commands an attention, an interest, and an enthusiasm which are universal--and spontaneous, not perfunctory. [5]
Cup of coffee. [5]

Sentences ending with cup

Give me a wreath for my head--aye and another to that, and new wine in the cup! [10]
That is saying we cannot empty an empty cup. [5]
He said it was so weak that it was transparent an inch in depth around the edge of the cup. [5]
There, take away the cup. [5]
It was noticeable that the half-breed watched the Indian closely, that he always rode behind him, that he never drank out of the same cup. [11]
It was a tedious process at first, but at length he began to swallow naturally, and finished the cup. [11]
The board was spread for them as it were, and yet she and Gotz, by their baleful oath, had barred themselves from tasting of that bread and that cup. [10]
This afforded Heinz some consolation, but enough remained to keep his grief alive, and his voice sounded very sorrowful as he added: "That lessens the bitterness of the cup. [10]
All pride and self; and as fair a lot they've been as ever entered for the Marriage Cup. [11]
The old man saw, and immediately brought out a wooden cup. [11]

Short sentences using cup

Give me the cup. [10]

Sentences containing cup two or more times

Mahommed Ibrahim took the little tin cup hanging by the tap, half filled it, drank it off, and noiselessly put the cup back again. [11]
She was of the chosen few who could drink the cup of light and the cup of darkness with equally regnant soul. [11]
And the inside of Wallis Plimpton's cup, and Everett Constable's cup, and Ferguson's cup, and Langmaid's. [9]
The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce. [6]
The old woman, lowering her eyes but casting side glances at the newcomers, had turned her cup upside down and placed a nibbled bit of sugar beside it, and sat quietly in her armchair, though hoping to be offered another cup of tea. [2]
If he must drink of the cup of sorrow and passion mixed, then it would be from the full cup. [11]
Galbraith is pouring another cup of coffee as they enter, and he says: "Just to be sociable I'm goin' to have a cup of coffee with you, Sergeant Tom. [11]

More example sentences with the word cup in them

Let me give you a cup of tea. [4]
Carmen had not yet come, and they were waiting for a cup of tea. [4]
But if you wish to cast into oblivion the poisoned cup proffered just now, do me the favour to trust yourself to my guidance in the next dance. [10]
Another cup of wine, the note, and then with renewed vigour we'll go back again. [10]
A cup of wine, Pollux, for me and your father. [10]
There was that which filled the cup of trembling for Al'mah in the way he nodded to the men. [11]
He said he was very thirsty, and asked his generous preserver to get him a cup of water. [5]
At least it was reduced to one tin-cupful, and Slade was about to take it when he saw that my cup was empty. [5]
The woman's plate was bountifully supplied by Fleda, and her cup filled more than once by Madame Bulteel, while old Gabriel Druse bulked friendly over all. [11]
Their first meeting was at Grady's quick-lunch counter in Faber Street, which they both frequented at one time, and the fact that each had ordered a ham sandwich, a cup of coffee, and a confection--new to Grady's--known as a Napoleon had led to conversation. [9]
For my grandfather was as stanch a royalist as ever held a cup to majesty's health. [9]
If a strange voice call, O teach me what to say; if I languish, O give me Thy cup to drink; O strengthen Thou my soul. [11]
We got up very much jaded, at dawn, and stepped out at a way station; and, while we were taking a cup of coffee, that Englishman ranged up alongside, and somebody said to him: "So you didn't stop off, after all? [5]
It is a very agreeable climb up Newport, and not difficult; but if the sun is out, one feels, after scrambling over the rocks and walking home by the dusty road, like taking a long pull at a cup of shandygaff. [4]
Presently he advanced upon her with a cup of tea in one hand and a wedge of pie in the other,--such a wedge! [6]
His daughter sprang up and offered him the cup full of wine and water which was standing on the table; but Keraunus pushed it aside with his hands, and panted out, while he struggled for breath: "Supersede me--in my place--turn me out of this palace! [10]
But this was unnecessary, for he had scarcely assented to the question ere, with passionate vehemence, she ordered him to destroy before her eyes the cup which had brought so much misfortune. [10]
If he should try her at noon and find her guilty, there was nothing to prevent him from compelling her to drink the poisoned cup or having her strangled before evening. [10]
He knows the trick of cup and saucer. [11]
Tavernier, the French traveler (17th century), notes that Ganges water is often given at weddings, "each guest receiving a cup or two, according to the liberality of the host; sometimes 2,000 or 3,000 rupees' worth of it is consumed at a wedding. [5]
Napoleon sat down, toying with his Sevres coffee cup, and motioned Balashev to a chair beside him. [2]
Wetmore came up to their corner, with a scroll of bread and butter in one hand and a cup of tea in the other. [8]
Then she stepped to the mantel and took down one of Mr. Wedgwood's cups and dishes, and wiping them with her apron, filled the cup with fragrant tea, which she tendered me with her eyes sparkling. [9]
I beg you to send me the cup, and whatever price you put upon it, I, of course, shall pay, that is quite understood. [10]
Sorry am I to say the reverse has been the fact: fallen, proscribed, prejudged, the cup of bitterness has been administered to him with an unsparing hand. [4]
Are you inclined to part with the cup that belonged to my namesake Plutarch? [10]
It were easier to live alone to the end with her own remorse, drinking the cup that would not empty, on and on, than to live with that look in his eyes. [11]
She gave it to him and he managed to spill it so as to ask for another cup, and by the time she came to me she saw through the operation; her eyes were full of fun as she looked at me. [5]
Do you wish to empty the cup now? [10]
I tossed the tin cup with its chemical fires full in his face, as he made a dash for me. [11]
David caught a tin cup from a shelf, poured some liquor into it, and held it to the lips of the fainting man. [11]
There was just time for a cup of tea at Mrs. Trafton's. [4]
Until we are thus divinely qualified, and willing to drink His cup, millions of vain repetitions will never pour into prayer the unction of Spirit, in demonstration of power, and "with signs following. [5]
And then, as though to fill the cup of humiliation, came the thought of Cecil Grainger's call. [9]
Let us devote this last cup to the manes of the glorious Lysander; and then I advise you to depart, for it is long past midnight, and our pleasure has reached its highest point. [10]
The apostle of this church may be a deaf mute carrying a cup of cold water to a thirsting fellow-creature. [6]
What do you think--would it not be right to pour out half a cup of wine to the gods, and allow ourselves the other half? [10]
Tom's first movement there was to reach for a cup of water; but a silk-and-velvet servitor seized it, dropped upon one knee, and offered it to him on a golden salver. [5]
They jumped to their feet, as if possessed, and one of them tossed his cup through the lattice work and vines overhead. [10]
Was it because the star was hid awhile, That I in blindness wandered from my path; That I wooed Folly with her mumming smile, And sought for Lethe in a cup of wrath? [11]
The same faces, the same talk, Papa holding his cup and blowing in the same way! [2]
The waiter at the restaurant wants us to pay him ninety kreuzers for our coffee, which is only six kreuzers a cup in Munich. [4]
He eagerly swallowed the refreshing fluid, and when the little cup was empty Balbilla took it from his hand, refilled it, and gave it him again. [10]
And this was the end of the revolting scene, for, as he spoke, Caesar pushed away his cup and sat staring into vacancy, so pale that his physician, foreseeing a fresh attack, brought out his medicine vial. [10]
You're comin' across the door-mat for a cup of coffee and a warm while the horse is gettin' ready, aren't you, Sergeant--Sergeant Gellatly, Sergeant Gellatly? [11]
Master Gridley treated the Doctor to a cup of such tea as bachelors sometimes keep hid away in mysterious caddies. [6]
On coming to the dinner-table, that day, he complained of headache, took but little food, and refused the cup of coffee which Elsie offered him, saying that it did not agree with him when he had these attacks. [6]
Merriment, forgetfulness, music, the dance; the cup of pleasure and the feast of Babylon--these might more readily have been vouchsafed; even deemed to have been bargained for. [9]
She put down the cup, placed another pillow behind my head with a marvellous deftness, and then began feeding me in dainty spoonfuls something which was surely nectar. [9]
He put down the cup of tea he had been tasting, and said, in his solemn staccato: "I must go. [8]
She had tasted the cup of bitterness and drunk of the waters of sacrifice. [11]
The bottom of the cup has a muddy sediment in it half an inch deep. [5]
Nektanebus had made the cup for Egypt. [10]
He had handed the cup first to Pourcette, who raised it towards a gun hung above the fireplace, and said something under his breath. [11]
I took all the coffee and sugar there was, and all the ammunition; I took the wadding; I took the bucket and gourd; I took a dipper and a tin cup, and my old saw and two blankets, and the skillet and the coffee-pot. [5]
The only thing that he still desired was to drain the cup of pleasure in her society till all was over. [10]
I hunted up that cup of tea as diligently as ever a Boston matron sought for the last leaves in her old caddy after the tea-chests had been flung overboard at Griffin's wharf,--but no matter about that, now. [6]
Why, you needn't tell me--I've had my mind made up ever since the day he broke the temper of Terry Brennan's Inniskillen chestnut, and won the gold cup with her afterwards. [11]
Ten drops in such a cup as that, full of water. [10]
But as he stood with the cup to his lips he recalled the words of a newspaper paragraph of a few months before. [11]
Afternoon tea was still rather a new custom with us, more of a ceremony than a meal; and as Nancy handed me my cup and the thinnest of slices of bread and butter I found the intimacy of the situation a little disquieting. [9]
Here it is still dry; mix me a cup of wine, Antinous. [10]
I will e'en step over to the parson's and have a cup of sack with His Reverence for methinks Master Hamlet hath forgot that which was just now on his lips to speak. [6]
Injun Joe's cup stands first in the list of the cavern's marvels; even "Aladdin's Palace" cannot rival it. [5]
Father Monies was standing by the bedside with a cup of coffee. [4]
That a mysterious spell emanates from the cup is certain, but one still more powerful dwells in the magic of your own nature. [10]
He never looked so happy,--could anything fill his cup fuller? [6]
Nitetis had been so happy in the thought of reading the very letter, which poured such bitter drops of wormwood into her cup of happiness. [10]
I have been so busy trying to rehabilitate my honor about that Ascot Cup that I have had no time to prepare a speech. [5]
There he would sit alone, with his wine jar and cup, and he would drink the first and second and third in silence, to the good speed of Elsa, his late departed wife. [10]
Now they were silent, because they had tossed into the abyss of Time the cup of trembling, and had drunk of the chalice of peace. [11]
Think of the short suffering which now and then embitters for you the sweet cup of life, as being the ring of Polykrates, with which you appease the envy of the gods who have given you so much. [10]
The sun was shining clear and strong, all the plains glistened and shook like quicksilver, and the vast blue cup of sky seemed deeper than it had ever been. [11]
And it was she who, by her wonderful self-possession, by the reassuring smile she gave him as she handed him his cup, endowed it all with reality. [9]
Then, trembling greatly, she reached to the table for a cup of water. [11]
From that time she had never ceased to urge her aged friend to place the wondrous cup in her keeping. [10]
Shortly your spirit shall take its exit; therefore confess freely thy sins, for to deny tends only to make me groan under the bitter cup thou hast made for me. [5]
There had been several little neighborhood entertainments, dinners at the Morgans' and at Mrs. Fletcher's, and an evening cup of tea at Miss Forsythe's. [4]
If he was separated from his cup for ten minutes, his whisper became inaudible. [4]
But if you'll send Ephum after, cup of coffee--" Mr. Carvel set the glass down. [9]
Now her youth seemed to drink eagerly a cup of obedience--as though it were the wine of life itself. [11]
I'd like to see Nahoum with that cup of trembling in his hand, and I've got an idea, too, that it will be there yet. [11]
He found himself seated once more at the mahogany table, permitting Sam to fill his cup with coffee. [9]
But I will say that the cup is bitter-sweet for you. [11]
What the Judge said made a deep impression; but he had determined to drink the cup of his misfortune to the dregs. [11]
Rosalie entered the room with a cup of tea, and came towards the bed. [11]
The people of Rome had endured unimaginable sufferings at his hands; but the cup was full, and, judging from Caesar's looks, he would cause it to overflow this day. [10]
At last the Roman set down the cup, and tried with some confusion to reply to her question as to how he had liked the flavor of the wine. [10]
Finally the priest rinsed out the cup, and drained the very washings, that no drop of the saving liquid should be lost. [10]
Presently Madame Bouvet returned, and placing before me a cup of wondrous coffee, advanced down the room towards them. [9]
It was the repetition of an attempt at a draught from the Cup of Tantalus. [6]
Look, I shall quaff a cup To Fate, while the wild ocean swallows up The shipwrecked youth, the man who lives in him. [11]
They formed in procession, cross the floor, climbed the wall, marched across the ceiling to a point just over the cup, then one by one they let go and fell down into it! [5]
A battered tin platter, a knife and fork, and a tin pint cup, were at each man's place, and the driver had a queens-ware saucer that had seen better days. [5]
By now the phosphorus light diminished a little, but still I was a villainous picture, for in one hand I held a small cup from which suddenly sprang red and blue fires. [11]
He is the person who comes in without knocking, drops in in the most natural way, as his wife does also, and not seldom in time to take the after-dinner cup of tea before the fire. [4]
So, with his passion to kill still keen and unabated, Venters lived out that ride, and drank a rider's sage-sweet cup of wildness to the dregs. [13]
Some of the party, exhausted by the climb, and shivering in the rude wind, wanted a fire kindled and a cup of tea made, and thought this the guide's business. [4]
Never heed the pain and blightin', Never trouble that you're wounded, that you bear the scars of fightin'; Here's the luck o' Heaven to you, Here's the hand of love will brew you The cup of peace--ah, darlin', will you come back home? [11]
Never heed the pain and blightin', Never trouble that you're wounded, that you bear the scars of fightin'; Here's the luck o' Heaven to you, Here's the hand of love will brew you The cup of peace-ah, darlin', will you come back home? [11]

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