"Loving cup" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Bolivar put his trunk lovingly on pa's shoulder, and seemed to say: "Old man, you are it, from this time out." Pa looked proud, and the old keeper looked sick. The people in the show are going to present pa with a loving cup, and I guess he can run the menagerie part ...
— Peck's Bad Boy at the Circus • George W. Peck
... circle of light cast by a dim lantern came a fat man and a skinny individual with ears like a loving cup. ...
— Lady Luck • Hugh Wiley
... something with silver handles on it for any man who would insist upon talking of earthquakes. To make my meaning clearer, I will state that there are only two objects of general use in the civilized world that have silver handles on them, and one of them is a loving cup; but this article would not be a loving cup. A native will willingly concede that there was a fire, which burned its memories deep into the consciousness of the city that recovered from it with such splendid courage and such inconceivable rapidity; but by common consent there ...
— Roughing it De Luxe • Irvin S. Cobb
... Dorothy was to share the prize, and she accepted a pretty silver loving cup. But what do ...
— The Bobbsey Twins at the Seashore • Laura Lee Hope
... says the king; which is being interpreted, 'I see you first.' 'Wheat cakes,' says Chris, which is the Egyptian for 'Boom Joe'"). He loved football, track,—he won three gold medals broad-jumping,—canoeing, swimming, billiards,—he won a loving cup at that, tennis, ice-skating, hand-ball; and yes, ye of finer calibre, quiver if you will—he loved a prize-fight and played a mighty good game of poker, as well as bridge—though in the ten and a half years that we were married I cannot remember that he played ...
— An American Idyll - The Life of Carleton H. Parker • Cornelia Stratton Parker
... with speeches to wind up with (Mr Goldsworthy, in his oration, disgusted Deb by referring to the host as "princely", and to the ladies of the house as his "bevy of beautiful daughters"); and if the truth must be told, the crowning ceremony of the loving cup was a bit superfluous. It found the host already fuddled beyond a doubt, and several of the guests under suspicion of being so. But in the opinion of all, Redford had celebrated Christmas in ...
— Sisters • Ada Cambridge
... folks come to call on me, I've no such things for them to see. No picture on my walls is great; I have no ancient family plate; No tapestry of rare design Or costly woven rugs are mine; I have no loving cup to show, Or strange and valued curio; But if my treasures they would see, I bid them ...
— A Heap o' Livin' • Edgar A. Guest
... Mirror Lake was fairer than the first. Into it there stole a joyous luminance which made saints' haloes for the reflected heads of mountains. The sun rose, and stepped slowly into the water's dream. It flung the lake a golden loving cup, thrilling it to the heart with that ...
— The Port of Adventure • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson
... was, she reigned supreme. The king was just, and showed no difference in the state and attendance of the two queens, but it was to Nehushta he turned, when he drank deep at the banquet and pledged the loving cup. It was to Nehushta that he went when the cares of state were heavy and he needed counsel; and it was upon her lap he laid his weary head, when he had ridden far and fast for many days, returning from some ...
— Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster • F. Marion Crawford
... one thing only is certain, that he will be robbed some day, and cut the pitiable and futile figure of one who has been saving candle-ends in a house that is on fire. Better than this to have a foolish spendthrift blaze and the loving cup going round. Stevenson speaks almost with a personal envy of the conduct of the four marines of the Wager. There was no room for them in the boat, and they were left on a desert island to a certain death. 'They were soldiers, they said, ...
— Robert Louis Stevenson • Walter Raleigh
... friend," Gamble said with a cheerful laugh. "I have check-writer's cramp. Who's to get the loving cup?" ...
— Five Thousand an Hour - How Johnny Gamble Won the Heiress • George Randolph Chester
... not much wind, but the Hollanders, slowly drifting on the eternal river that pours from the Atlantic into the Mediterranean, were now very near. All hands had been piped on board every one of the ships, all had gone down on their knees in humble prayer, and the loving cup had then been ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley
... expectation and wonder upon it, that two eminent statesmen have actually dined together; and I am very glad to hear that men engaged in the strife of politics can dine together without personal hostility. I say nothing of the viands that were eaten. I say nothing of the beverage that was in the 'loving cup' that went round. One of our oldest and greatest poets ...
— Speeches on Questions of Public Policy, Volume 1 • John Bright |
