drinking-cup

• “A Roman marble torso sculpted in the second century AD, an Apulian drinking-cup from the fourth century BC and a Greek terracotta figure of a goddess made in the third century BC are to be auctioned on June 10.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Critics Say Christie's Should Pull 3 Items From Auction

• “He drew from his bosom a small crystal vial, cased in silver filigree-work, and dropped into a little golden drinking-cup a small portion of a dark-coloured fluid.”

  The Talisman

• “In Dashiell Hammett's "The Maltese Falcon," shamus Sam Spade ponders how to handle Joel Cairo with the help of "a bottle of Manhattan cocktail and a paper drinking-cup from a desk-drawer.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Democracy in a Glass

• “They bring from home the staple of their meal, dry bread with nasturtium for a relish, and to slake their thirst they bring a drinking-cup, to dip in the running stream.”

  Cyropaedia

• “Their king, named Krom, cut off his head, and made use of his skull as a drinking-cup at his table, according to the custom of that people in common with all the northern nations.”

  A Philosophical Dictionary

• “Scythian who scooped out the brains of his enemy and made a drinking-cup of his skull, was allowed all the rank and consequence in Scythia.”

  A Philosophical Dictionary

• “Byron asked me to perserve the skull for him; but remembering that he had formerly used one as a drinking-cup, I was determined Shelley's should not be so profaned.”

  The Cremation of Shelley

• “Wearing in his solitary confinement no fetters that he could polish, and being provided with no drinking-cup that he could carve, be had fallen on the device of ringing alphabetical changes into the two volumes in question, or of entering vast numbers of persons out of the Directory as transacting business with Mr”

  Our Mutual Friend

• “A purse (containing a sovereign and a few shillings), a pipe, a tobacco pouch, a handkerchief, and a little drinking-cup of horn were produced in succession.”

  Armadale

• “It stood at last, whole and calm, before him; then the night took up this drinking-cup of fiery gold, lifting it with majestic movement overhead, letting stream forth the wonderful unwasted liquor of gold over the sea — a libation.”

  The Trespasser

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