parting cup

Long before the dawn of early morning that jovial party drank a parting cup of cold tea, and, dispersing to their several homes, left the field in possession of the village curs.

From The Wild Man of the West A Tale of the Rocky Mountains by Archibald Webb

I drink good-night, and sweet dreams to you, in another parting cup of sack; and you shall hear tidings of me within four-and- twenty hours.

From The Fortunes of Nigel by Sir Walter Scott

The archon, "Master of the Feast," judging that its "glow" was "extinct," had risen to conclude it by crowning the parting cup.

From A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) by Mrs. Sutherland Orr

The lateness of the hour warns us that we must be moving, so after a parting cup with our host and his family, we remount our steeds, and turn homewards.

From The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba by Walter Goodman

Next evening, however, both men were merry by the hall fire at Pentegoet over their parting cup.

From The Chase of Saint-Castin and Other Stories of the French in the New World by Mary Hartwell Catherwood