goblet

• At least it did not muster an insult this time 12 GWENNY Goblin Mountain was a huge heap of packed sand, much larger than the hill Goody had known as a goblet. —  Piers Anthony - [Xanth 29] - Pet Peeve (2005)
• 'Think,' he wrote, 'how often we have given to bad men, when all has been lost; so be liberal, and do not let such a good, fellow want Do not fail; for a goblet is there. —  Life of Luther
• For the mares of Eumelus are still[756] foremost, which were so before, and he himself is advancing, holding the reins But him the leader of the Cretans, indignant, answered in turn Ajax, best at abuse, reviler, but in all other things thou art inferior to the Greeks, because thy temper is morose; come now, let us stake a tripod[757] or a goblet, and let us both appoint Agamemnon, the son of Atreus, arbiter, which horses are foremost; that paying, thou mayest learn Footnote 755 implies habit, as in i. —  The Iliad of Homer (1873)
• I am thirsty Fill this cup MARGIT fetches a flagon of the mead from a cupboard, and and fills the goblet which is on the table before him MARGIT Crossing to the right with the flagon.] —  The Feast at Solhoug
• But Mr. Bellingham took his brimming glass, filled with the wine that ripened in the sun when he himself was but a little boy, and he held it a moment to the light; the juice was clearer now than it had been that day sixty years, and the hand that held the goblet was as a hand of iron for strength and steadiness, though the dark fingers might have plucked the grapes on the day they were pressed. —  Doctor Claudius, A True Story

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