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Examples
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He despises serious friends, and, boy as he is, spends his tender years in revelling with the most abandoned youths among harlots and wine-cups.
The Defense Apuleius 2008
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Then she began to dance, and Ibrahim beheld motions he had never in his life seen their like, for she showed such wondrous skill and marvellous invention, that she made men forget the dancing of bubbles in wine-cups and called to mind the inclining of the turbands from head326-tops: even as saith of her the poet327,
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He despises serious friends, and, boy as he is, spends his tender years in revelling with the most abandoned youths among harlots and wine-cups.
The Defense Apuleius 2008
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The same red gleam was returned by silver wine-cups, which circulated from hand to hand with the flasks which filled them.
Anne of Geierstein 2008
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George Heriot rose from the table, observing, that wine-cups and legal documents were unseemly neighbours.
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He has his own theory about inspiration which will not always come, — especially will not come if wine-cups overnight have been too deep.
An Autobiography 2004
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On the wedding-day, however, the Princess begged that she might have the little boy who was in the kitchen, and carried wood and water for the kitchen-maid, to fill the wine-cups at the wedding feast.
The Red Fairy Book 2003
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Neither wine-cups nor cups of medicine will then deter me from my wish.
Hung Lou Meng 2003
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These cards and wine-cups are no part of his normal habit; they have been produced for a particular companion.
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These cards and wine-cups are no part of his normal habit; they have been produced for a particular companion.
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