drinking-glasses

How many of our most cherished beliefs are like those drinking-glasses of the ancient pattern, that serve us well so long as we keep them in our hand, but spill all if we attempt to set them down!

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics Various

Mr. Porter produced some curiously engraved drinking-glasses, with a view of Saint Botolph's steeple on one of them, and other Boston edifices, public or domestic, on the remaining two, very admirably done.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Various

It is hollow, and the air being exhausted by the mouth at the small end, the liquid to be tasted was drawn up into the cavity. _a_ and _b_, wine-jars; _c_, two small wine-jars in a glass casket; _d_, _e_, _f_ and _q_, goblets or drinking-glasses of toned and beautiful colored glass; _i_ and _m_, glass dishes, the first with a saucer.

Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

Heavy walnut presses, carved and black with age, stood against the walls, drinking-glasses and candlesticks sparkled on a dark bureau-top, there was a bright picture or two, and the sunlighted tinware of a house at the other side of the street threw a cluster of tiny rays like a bouquet of light in at the window.

Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 Various

"Gatherer;" and water _quant.suff. _ -- mixed in a form, which, like old bowls or drinking-glasses, is variegated with figures and scenes of the current fashion -- as in our Engravings.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 12, No. 349, Supplement to Volume 12. Various

A man -- the same who had talked about racehorses that afternoon -- was standing by the table, on which a quantity of cards lay scattered among the drinking-glasses; and he laughed at this, and his laugh sounded just like the rustling of paper.

The Ship of Stars Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Bow working men were not so lavish in their patronage of water, whether existing in drinking-glasses, morning tubs, or laundress's establishments.

The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes Israel Zangwill 1895

Arabs from Macassar come every year to collect tortoise-shell in these parts; but their trade must be among more civilised people, with more wants, for such things as matches, papers for cigarettes, and drinking-glasses, which they recommended to us, we cannot dispose of in Tenimber.

Insulinde: Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the Eastern Archipelago 1887

Oddly enough, some of the drinking-glasses still remained unbroken in one of the racks, and with them a bottle partly filled with wine -- to the neck of which a card was fastened bearing the name, José Rubio y Salinas, of the passenger to whom it had belonged.

In the Sargasso Sea A Novel 1881

Their drinking-glasses are just cows 'horns, with the tip cut off and a wooden bottom put in.

Our Little Lady Six Hundred Years Ago Emily Sarah Holt 1864