Mrs. Holymead took a sip of water, shuddered, took another sip, then heaved a sigh, and opened to the full extent her large dark eyes on the man bending over her, who felt amply repaid by such a glance.

Others sipped from their glasses or drew at their cigars.

" Slade sipped at his glass reflectively.

Mr. Saffron, high up in the great chair, sitting erect, seemed now actually to dominate the sceneBeaumaroy standing by, with an arm on the back of the chair, holding a tall glass full of the golden wine ready to Mr. Saffron's command; the old man reached up his thin right hand, took it, and sipped with evident pleasure.

He took several small sips in quick succession, evidently appreciating the quality of the tea as a connoisseur.

If she was slight, however, she was endowed with unconquerable tenacity and courage, and she would have killed herself with hard work to provide him with the coffee and cognac which he liked to sip after each repast.

At his side was the black coffee that he always sipped through the evenings, simmering over a spirit lamp.

She had meant, no doubt, to soften her news over a glass or two of chilled white wine which she had counted on sipping during the noon hour.

What a difference in its taste When we drink it sip by sip, As a miser counts his gold On a hearth that leaves him cold!

Indeed, he went so far as to gaze on one of the noble knights straight in the facenay, even at last ventured to sip out of a bowl of wine that stood near him, which diffused a most delicious odour around.

And we could not, without Sorrow, reflect that we were likely to have nothing to interrupt our Sips in a Morning, and to suspend our Coffee in mid-air, between our Lips and Right Ear, but the ordinary Trash of News-Papers.

In supreme intoxication of the senses, breathing that dry air which was like cool wine coming in long sips to the palate, they rode down the winding trail, till, after a surpassing outburst, the Eternal Painter dropped his brush for the night.

It would be a good plan to arrange for the heating of a portion of the milk to be sipped as a hot drink.

" "Really, you begin to persuade me," observed Mr. Jinks, becoming gradually tractable under the effect of the rum which he had been sipping for some minutes, and gazing complacently at his grasshopper continuations in their scarlet stockings.