stirrup cup

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The episode begins as Danny totters up to the stirrup cup.

From Time Magazine Archive

It seemed a storm in a 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 ancient stirrup cup of the hospitable house of Lough Guir.

From J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 5 by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

Kmita was just drinking a stirrup cup with Ganhoff, Kharlamp, and some other officers when about dusk Soroka came in and asked,-- "Are you going, Commander?"

From The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk