"Cupful" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... what I have to suggest," Pao-y interposed, a smile on his lips. "If you go on drinking in this reckless manner, we will easily get drunk and there will be no fun in it. I'll take the lead and swallow a large cupful and put in force a new penalty; and any one of you who doesn't comply with it, will be mulcted in ten large cupfuls, ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book II • Cao Xueqin
... quantity. Several died from excessive heat, and others were for a long time unfit for duty. Reaching the spring which gave its name to the locality, I was fortunate in finding only the advance of the command. With considerable effort I succeeded in obtaining a pint cupful of water, and thus allayed ...
— Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field • Thomas W. Knox
... cup near the pail. He dipped up the water and drank cupful after cupful until Bart eyed ...
— Bart Stirling's Road to Success - Or; The Young Express Agent • Allen Chapman
... Each held a cupful of water in the left hand, and in the right hand Harry held a good-sized needle, while Marjorie held a length of thread. She tried to get the thread through the needle, and he tried to help, or at least not hinder her; but all the time both must have a care that ...
— Marjorie's Busy Days • Carolyn Wells
... will take a large cupful. It swells up so, I should think that might do. You soak it first, I think." She measured out a full cup of the rice, poured some water over it, washed it and then set it to soak till the water should boil. The potatoes ...
— A Dear Little Girl at School • Amy E. Blanchard
|
