stirrup cup
Example Sentences
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It seemed a storm in a stirrup cup.
From Time Magazine Archive
The episode begins as Danny totters up to the stirrup cup.
From Time Magazine Archive
But my favorite was a stirrup cup molded in the shape of a wolf’s head and shoulders, with the head lifted and the mouth pulled into an O for a long howl.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
“It was the Copelands going off without breaking their fast or taking a stirrup cup, like discourteous rogues as they be,” said Margaret, in no measured language.
From Grisly Grisell by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
Beaumont held a neglected stirrup cup, and laughed as he drained it himself.
From The White Ladies of Worcester A Romance of the Twelfth Century by Barclay, Florence L. (Florence Louisa)
