"Cup" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... were old cronies, and their greeting was most friendly. When the old gentlewoman had seated herself and taken her cup of tea, Mr. Copleston said to Stephen, with a sort ...
— The Man • Bram Stoker
... Marie in position again in front of the Grotto, an attack of weakness came over her and she almost fainted. Gerard, who was there, saw Raymonde quickly hurry to the spot with a cup of broth, and at once they began zealously rivalling each other in their attentions to the ailing girl. Raymonde, holding out the cup in a pretty way, and assuming the coaxing airs of an expert nurse, especially insisted that Marie should accept the bouillon; and Gerard, ...
— The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete - Lourdes, Rome and Paris • Emile Zola
... brother, It is well I know who it was took you away from me; Drinking from the cup, putting a light to the pipe, And walking in the dew in the cover ...
— The Kiltartan Poetry Book • Lady Gregory
... marriage-day, And for ever love each other— 140 Let her, as she sits on board, Ah, sweet saints, unwittingly! See it shine, and take it up, And to Tristram laughing say: "Sir Tristram, of thy courtesy, 145 Pledge me in my golden cup!" Let them drink it—let their hands Tremble, and their cheeks be flame, As they feel the fatal bands Of a love they dare not name, 150 With a wild delicious pain, Twine about their hearts again! Let the early ...
— Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems • Matthew Arnold
... to be stowed away, I soon settled my visitor comfortably in an armchair by the fire, with a cup of his favorite ...
— J. Cole • Emma Gellibrand
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