30 Metaphors for cup

" Tennyson at first wanted to call the play "The Senator's Wife," then thought of "Sinnatus and Synorix," and finally agreed with us that "The Cup" was the best as it was the simplest title.

And these bright, new flowery cups should be his special care, to wash, and dry, and guard.

Believe me, the cup is bitterthe more so, since I myself prepared it!"

Then pleased and thankful, from the porch they go, And, but the landlord, none had cause of woe; His cup was vanish'dfor in secret guise The younger guest purloin'd the glittering prize.

I was playing Miss A.N.G. Greene at Eastbourne in 1907; again the Cup would be my own property if I won it.

That cup's not yet to lip. Regent.

His cup and saucer, on the contrary, were thick pieces of ware such as the cabin-boys toss about on steamboats.

It is drowned in water; a cup is plenty for one quart of spinach.

[Illustration: Measuring Cup] WHEN TO SET THE SPONGE.The time to set the sponge for bread-making is a point each housekeeper must determine for herself.

The bitter cup Of that hard countermand Which gave the Envoys up, Still was wormwood in the mouth, And clouds involved the land, When, pelted by sleet in the icy street, About the bulletin-board a band Of eager, anxious people met, And every wakeful heart was set On latest news from West or South.

Daffodils were so very plentiful, they were not thought worth gathering, unless they were double ones, and butter-cups I found were very poor flowers indeed, yet I would pick one now and then, because I knew they were the very same flowers that had delighted me so in the journey; for my papa had told me they were.

Its white and thin-sided cup is brim full and running over with flowery exuberance of leaf and tint infinitely variegated.

The cup I sing is a cup of gold, Many and many a century old, Sculptured fair, and over-filled With wine of a generous vintage, spilled In crystal currents and foaming tides All round its luminous, pictured sides.

And what do you think, Louisthis cup was also the cause of a punishment being remitted your cousin, the King of Rome, who now lives in Vienna!" "Tell me all about it, Louise," said the prince, smiling.

Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the New Testament in my blood, which is shed for you."

On the hearth were several thick cups filled with herbs and heavy fluids and covered with tarpaulin, for Becky's "man" was a teamster.

How my heart leaps up To think of that grand living after death In beast and bird and flower, when this cup, Being filled too full of spirit, bursts for breath, And with the pale leaves of some autumn day, The soul, earth's earliest conqueror, becomes earth's last great prey.

The heavenly forms supporting the dishes and plates were forms of art, derived from wisdom, such as cannot be devised by any human art, or expressed by any human words: the dishes and plates were of silver, on which were engraved forms similar to those that supported them; the cups were transparent gems.

" But 'tween cup and lip there's many a slip.

Wooden vessels and platters supplied the place of our modern plates and china-ware; and a "tin cup was an article of delicate furniture, almost as rare as an iron-fork," The beds were either placed on the floor, or on bedsteads of puncheons, supported by forked pieces of timber, driven into the ground, or resting on pins let into auger-holes in the sides of the cabin.

To me, a cup of tea at work was a welcome luxury, especially because it was free.

A cup of wine is as good a constable as can be to take up the quarrel betwixt us.

"An I have not ballads made on you all, and sung to fifty tunes, may a cup of sack be my poison.

Back Cup had become a group of jagged reefs against which the sea, that had been thrown back like a gigantic tidal wave, was beating and frothing.

Back Cup, then, is not a volcano, as was supposedas I supposed myself.

30 Metaphors for  cup