honey-cup

“But who does not say to himself, too, that at that time he was carried, as though on wings, past every honey-cup in the garden of earth, too quickly indeed to become intoxicated, but slowly enough to breathe in the sacred morning fragrance.”

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig

“Her soul was as sweet as the honey-cup of a flower, -- I poisoned it.”

The Master-Christian

“It is HE who brings the honey-cup each day to you, and then goes silently away, that you may never know who works so faithfully for you.”

Flower Fables

“It is not easy to conjecture why it was necessary that this secretion of honey should be exposed to the open air in the nectary or honey-cup, for which purpose so great an apparatus for its defence from insects and from showers became necessary.”

The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation

“On this account the vegetable impregnation of aquatic plants is performed in the air; and it is probable that the honey-cup or nectary of vegetables requires to be open to the air, that the anthers and stigmas of the flower may have food of a more oxygenated kind than the common vegetable sap-juice.”

Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life