flower-cups

Who has not looked long in delight at the effects of sun and rain on a roof of brown tiles, at the dewdrops, or at the variously shaped petals of the flower-cups?

The Magic Skin 2007

From the flower-cups of summer, on field and on tree,

The Poetry of Wales John Jenkins

Kenny had delightful substitute, fairies quaffing nectar from flower-cups of dew or riding bridle paths of cloud on bits of straw.

Kenny Leona Dalrymple

If to our poor humanity such honeyed drops of healing do earth's frailest flower-cups yield, how cool, how crystal-clear the nectar from amaranth and asphodel distilled for those

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

Very unlike the sweetened water in the flower-cups, isn't it?

Little Busybodies The Life of Crickets, Ants, Bees, Beetles, and Other Busybodies Julia Moody 1919

So she drove off very fast to the fairy green, and rolled such a river of light into the fairy ring that the fairies gave up dancing, and got flower-cups and sailed on the river, and some who couldn't stop to get flower-cups swam in it, and it was the gayest night ever to be remembered.

Tell Me Another Story The Book of Story Programs Carolyn Sherwin Bailey 1918

And every night the little Fairy mothers caressed their babies and rocked them to sleep in the flower-cups.

Good Stories for Holidays Frances Jenkins Olcott 1917

And every night the little Fairy mothers caressed their babies and rocked them to sleep in the flower-cups.

Good Stories for Great Holidays 1914

They forgot all their usual tasks, and went running about through groves and fields, and by the sedgy banks of rivers, peering into earth-holes, and creeping down into flower-cups and empty snail-shells, every one hoping to find a gift for Gerda.

Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Charles Madison Curry 1906

The Queen of the Fairies might have envied him that meal, so exquisite were the flower-cups in which he found it.

The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories William Patten 1902