I made the tray unusually attractive that day, and fed him his tea from a spoon, while he admired the tiny pot, out of which, with the aid of the kettle, I could furnish twenty cups of good tea.
The men who brought the coffee would distribute it to those who had cups or canteens, and the others would get none.
I had some trouble to induce them to leave their cans, until, with the two tin cups I could borrow, I could give about one-third the whole number the coffee they could not otherwise have.
You can get tin cups from the commissary, and should have them ready, so that the food will not cool.
Juan's servant brought us some cups of coffee, which we drank while our horses were being got ready, and in less than five minutes we had mounted.
Candles had been lighted, and the table laid with a spotless white cloth, cups and saucers, tin plates, bone knives and forks, and a large loaf of the brown meal bread known as simmels broot.
Later she poured them out cups of the coffee whose beans had so lately been roasted over Grietje's fire.
However, the handshaking that ensued was hearty enough and Chrissie, with heightened colour, poured coffee for the new-comer, and fresh cups all round.
These and the cupswere placed upon a round embroidered cloth spread on the floor, or upon a round tray.
The wine-cups circulated among us, and joy overcame me to such a degree as to obliterate from my mind every earthly care, and make me exclaim, This is indeed a delightful life!
I here deviate a little from the Cairo edition, in which the cateress is described as having drunk three cups of wine successively before she handed any to her sisters.
At night we had excellent wine brought up, and such fruit as is apt to promote drinking, and timed our cups to the sound of musical instruments joined to the voices of the slaves.
But surely the old un don't need both cups to drink out o'.
Miss Connie, who began to fidget with the cups and carefully cut the cake into five exact divisions.
She whispered hoarsely to the maid to bring two more cups and surreptitiously made a new allotment of the chocolate cake.
By way of peroration to this harangue, Sandara gave such a thump with his fist upon the table, that our three cups performed a caper in the air.
On our return home, the master of the house, to whom we showed our purchase, gratified us with the information, that for an ounce of silver we ought to have had at least four such cups as the two we had received.
These cups are made of the roots of certain fine trees that grow on the mountains of Thibet.
Lithang carries on also a large trade in gold dust, in chaplets of black beads, and in cups made with the roots of the vine and box-tree.
From time to time they fill their dear wooden cups with a sort of acid liquor, made of fermented barley, not at all disagreeable to the palate.
Wine flowed in abundance, and cups went round to the health of the black Othello, and his lady the fair Desdemona.
These objects when made of gold are of two shapes--in the one case the expanded cups are large and flat and the connecting bar is bow-shaped, and is striated.
In Ireland several of these small cups have perforated walls, while some have handles.
Marie Josephine and Lisle held out their horn drinking cupsfor more tea, and then Humphrey filled a cup for himself.
He was a licorice water seller by profession and all that he had left Vivi of worldly goods was his tin tray and the cups dangling from it.
She did not feel as though it were herself at all who poured the sickish-looking, grey mixture into the tin cups and received in exchange coins which she put in the pocket of her torn skirt.
Marie had put her tray with its jug of licorice water and its jangling cupson the floor beside her.
Humphrey had picked up the man's tray and tin cups and given them to Vivi.
Marie Josephine exclaimed, pouring coffee from a brown jug into one of the two white cups and handing the cup to Jean.
The hot chocolate in the old horn drinking cups was delicious, and it seemed to the two wayfarers that they had never tasted anything so good as the bread and cheese.
Why should we forget a set of most curious and antique drinking-cups of painted glass, on whose rare surfaces were emblazoned the Kaiser and ten electors of the old Empire?
And last year I had three king-tulips; their elegantly-formed, creamy cups I have never seen equalled.
His ill-humour did not escape the lord of the cups and balls, who, as was his custom, immediately began to torment him.
Then, too, they were now youngsters instead of plebes, and this fact alone would have been almost enough to fill their cups with joy.
The clattering of the cups and saucers awoke the baby, who began squalling dismally; and the baby's cries awoke the baby's mamma.
Very prettily and deftly the white hands fluttered among the fragile china cups and saucers, and wielded the carved and massive silver coffee-pot.
Drinking-cups bearing royal crests, and others with the arms of noble Castilian families engraved upon them, are numerous.
A yellow, creamy liquid flows forth from the rubber tree into small cups placed beneath an incision made in the trunk.
She pretended that she was a farmer's wife who had a large family of children, and wanted to lay in stores for three months, and to buy a great many cups and plates.
Let now the chimneys blaze, And cups o'erflow with wine; Let well-tuned words amaze With harmony divine.
The small and not over-clean steward having placed everything he could think of upon the table, and then added everything the Chief could think of, had assiduously poured out two cups of tea and withdraw by request.
The blue crackle jar, the two "Long Eliza" vases, and all the Lowestoft cups and saucers, literally jumped upon their foundations.
Pilar and the Cherub were persuaded to finish their cups of thick chocolate, flavoured with cinnamon, while Dick and I drank our strong coffee and left our aguardiente.
Peasant houses by the wayside had thatched roofs, grey and glistening as silver plush; and outside ovens like huge cups turned upside down.
Sad at heart, Shih-niang put the cups and dishes in order.
If you would like me to make it clear to you, have two cups of wine brought in.
His companions offered him cups of wine, wondering at his melancholy; but he was far from them.
It is needless to say that, when he did so, all his relations and friends came to drink cups of wine with him to "wash down the dust of the journey.
Being a little elated by his cups of wine, he kept speaking of Ya-nei's merit, and of his intention to invite the father and son for the next day.
In the theatres, they had composed an epigram about her: When Tu Shih-niang comes to a banquet The guests drink a thousand great cups Instead of a single small one.
So one day, very much afraid, he slipped over to the little house with two smallcups of strong tea.
And when the little handleless cups of clear brown liquid were passed around and they all drank and chatted, Mrs. Pig and her children strolled about as welcome as the guest.
When they had eaten their fill the women filled round the cups and the horns to them, and those vessels were both great and goodly.
Then they all stood up and shouted, women as well as men, and emptied their horns and cups to that health.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cups" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
