cup-shaped

• The country gradually becomes lower, warmer, and tsetse and mosquitoes appear; so at last we come to the remarkable cup-shaped cavity in which Liemba reposes. —  The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death
• It might have been twilight, from the shading of the mist, but the glow from that eccentric Pattern brightened our cup-shaped world beyond a day's end dimness. —  Prince of Chaos
• All about the buildings, standing on great towers, were cup-shaped discs many feet across and all the faces of the discs were turned toward the sun and the faces of the discs glowed as if there were fires inside of them. —  Ring Around the Sun
• Then she wandered on until she came upon a little sprin g of water bubbling from the ground, and filling a cup-shaped leaf of the tatti-plant from the spring, she mixed her bark and roots and butterfly-spots in the liquid and boiled it carefully over a fire of twigs; for tatti-leaves will not burn so long as t here is water inside them. —  Queen Zixi of Ix
• What I call a flower - such as this "- and I reached down to touch a cup-shaped bloom in a nearby bed -" you may also call a flower and yet not see it as I do - "I halted, for the blossom I had touched was going through a frightening transformation. —  Dread Companion

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