tea-cups

She rose from the couch, cleared the saucers and tea-cups, and shuffled on down the hall.

The Fugitive Waits Jack Ales-Oruam 2011

What does it say about a person's character to go against nature and force trees to live in tea-cups—drinking a thimble's worth of water a day?

Truth at a Bonsai Booth Paula Ray 2011

That involves throwing plenty of tea-cups at the players and shouting a lot.

E is for Ecology « An A-Z of ELT 2010

Turning tea-cups, bumper cars, fishing ponds, merry-go-rounds, high swings and little roller coasters, just to mention a few of the things to coax parents into parting with their money while keeping a smile on their faces.

Country fairs and Ferris wheels Rene Meertens 2010

Ignatieff didn't seem nearly as fearsome here, among the tea-cups, with chaps toadying the royals, and cress sandwiches being handed round, and Ellenborough flirting ponderously with Elspeth while the Queen complained to old Aberdeen that it was the press which had killed Lord Hardinge, in her Uncle Leopold's opinion.

Fiancée 2010

"Put that tray down on the table, then get me a kettle of hot water, a pair of tea-cups, a strainer, and the brown paper parcel in my valise," she ordered it, and picked up the glass of milk.

red dust Ryn Cricket 2010

I didn't doubt he'd called me a coward, you understand, but it ain't the kind of thing a fellow says by way of social chat over the tea-cups, is it?

Watershed 2010

And when your sovereign lady regards you pop-eyed over the tea-cups with a bland "I expect, dear Sir Harry, that you will be accompanying Sir Garnet to Egypt," you can hardly remind her that you're past sixty and disinclined, especially when the idiot you married in an evil hour is assuring Her Majesty that you're champing at the bit.

Watershed 2010

These heart-shaped tea-cups from Bits and Piece run $13 each ($10 in quantity).

- Boing Boing 2007

So that every time he moves in the room ... one awaits with horror to see him rush down among the tea-cups, or walk out thro the window glass, or pitch himself foremost into the grate!

The Admirable Mrs. James Colm T&243;ib&237;n 2009