supping

• “Quote of the pub: “Oh yes, that really is supping from the appley teet!””

  …Cider Friday « Sven’s guide to…

• “The water cures any disease, so they say, and at any time a crowd is found around its magic brim filling jars, bottles, and pitchers to take home, or supping from the copper bowl that is chained to the iron bars that cover the well.”

  Six Months in Mexico

• “We did not much relish the idea of supping and sleeping in such a place -- but necessity has no law.”

  Fast in the Ice Adventures in the Polar Regions

• “But the idea of supping with the Duke raised him just now into manifest complacency.”

  The Cloister and the Hearth

• “However, she succeeded in pouring out and carrying into the parlor, without accident, three platefuls of that excellent condiment which formed the frugal supper of the family; but which they ate, I grieve to say, in an orthodox southern fashion, with sugar or treacle, until Mr. Lyon -- greatly horrified thereby -- had instituted his national custom of "supping" porridge with milk.”

  Mistress and Maid. A Household Story.

• “Do you mean that you are not accustomed as I am to invalidism, and hardly like the notion of supping in bed as an introduction to strangers?”

  Bricks without Straw A Novel

• “How relish you the idea of supping with Captain Lawton, this evening, Mr. Birch? ”

  The Spy

• “Since my first sighting of Don Draper supping a scotch I've been hooked on US TV drama.”

  The Guardian: Is Sky Atlantic bad for British television? | Debate

• “His guilelessness seemed to say that there was nothing to see here, folks, just Ranger Rick supping on half-digested chunks of low-grade meat.”

  Fictionaut: Chameleon

• “Had NPR before that lunch done the due diligence that we now know they did after the fact perhaps Schiller no relation to Vivian Schiller and Liley would have begged off supping at Cafe Milano.”

  The Washington Post: Fundraisers not entirely on autopilot at NPR

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