parting cup

Example Sentences

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Quando dormir partiamos, El Rey dijo, "Te am�mos Antesque al lecho vamos, let us take a parting cup!"

From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various

Gratian.—Well, then, that must be our parting cup for the night, and a pretty good "night-cap" it is.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 by Various

But prosing isn't quite the thing, And so, I guess, I'll give it up: Just wait a moment while I sing; We'll have another parting cup, And then to bed.

From Pipe and Pouch The Smoker's Own Book of Poetry by Various

Some thrust out their snuff-mulls for the parting pinch—others tendered the doch-an-dorrach, or parting cup.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 280, October 27, 1827 by Various

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 Goodman, Walter