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Meanings of drinking the cup in English

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Usage of drinking the cup in English
1
After drinking the cup, she touched the strings and recited:
The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights. Vol. 1
2
I am drinking the cup to the dregs.
Balzac
3
But I do not think that I should gain anything by drinking the cup a little later.
The Story of Wellesley
4
Deeply drinking the cup of life, even in his social vices, Philip Hardin aims at a certain distinction.
The Little Lady of Lagunitas: A Franco-Californian Romance
5
Not half so dreadful, Mollie Dane, as the eating the bread or drinking the cup of Carl Walraven!
The Unseen Bridegroom; Or, Wedded For a Week
6
I've been drinking the cup he offered me so long that I don't care to drink his health any longer.
Master Olof: A Drama in Five Acts
7
After lying thus for some time, drinking the cup of bitterness to the very dregs, he got up, and went downstairs.
Elder Conklin and Other Stories
8
Riley was beside him, not drinking the cup of coffee in his hand: boiled if not burnt, by the smell of it.
Throne of Jade
9
And here he was this night, drinking the cup of bitterness, of unhappiness, the astringent draft of things that might and should have been.
Half a Rogue
10
If they were now drinking the cup of glory, most of them had also tasted the bitterness of exile, imprisonment, and fear of death.
The Constitutional Development of Japan 1853-1881 / Johns Hopkin...
11
"Nay, gudeman, but you brewed for him; the lad is drinking the cup you mixed wi' your ain hands."
Scottish sketches
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