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However, on the third night the soldier carried away one of the golden cups as a token of where he had been.

The matron looked, from the little kettle, to the beadle, who was moving towards the door; and as the beadle coughed, preparatory to bidding her good-night, bashfully inquired whether--whether he wouldn't take a cup of tea?

drink three cups of wine, the "Golden Valley" being the name of a garden, the owner of which enforced this penalty among his boon companions (`Gems of Chinese Literature', p.

Then I examined the coffee cups, and I knew enough chemistry to find poison in the dregs of one of them.

The cup went round amid the well-dissembled applause of the courtiers, which, however, failed to make the impression on the mind of the Saxon that had been designed.

"Have another cup of coffee, mademoiselle?" said Poirot solicitously.

The cup itself appealed to me no more than it had done before.

"Ain't he a funny guardeen?" exclaimed Phebe, as she went off with the cups.

Without further expostulation or delay, Hester Prynne drained the cup, and, at the motion of the man of skill, seated herself on the bed, where the child was sleeping; while he drew the only chair which the room afforded, and took his own seat beside her.

Phips a magnificent gold cup, worth at least five thousand dollars.

And he himself brought her the golden-brown bouillon, in a dainty Sevres cup, with a flaky cracker or two on the saucer.

I saw, with the utmost surprise, an old Moor enter my chamber, with a kind of small dagger, all over rusty, and a mallet in his hand, and three cups of horn about half a foot long.

A waiter paused before their table and offered a salver on which were several cups of coffee and liqueur glasses.