parting cup

Example Sentences

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On all sides the recruits were stopped by their friends, who came to shake hands or to share a parting cup.

From Black Forest Village Stories by Auerbach, Berthold

He gave “To the good genius, then!” as a parting cup.

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Berdoe, Edward

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 Orr, Sutherland, Mrs.

The feasters were just pouring a libation to Hermes, to be followed by a parting cup, before they went home.

From Stories from the Odyssey by Havell, H. L. (Herbert Lord)

At half-past seven, after a parting cup with the Sieur Champeaux, whither they returned to re-saddle their horses, they set off again in the direction of Melun.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 by Various