Cup Bearers

Word CUP BEARERS
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Definitions and meanings of "Cup Bearers"

What do we mean by cup bearers?

One who ceremonially fills and hands out the cups in which a drink is served.

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The word "cup-bearers" in example sentences

The Fisherman advanced and drank and gave the Caliph to drink, and the cup-bearers came forward and served the rest of the company with the sherbets. ❋ Unknown (2006)

During this interval, whilst the cup-bearers carried out their duties, the boy played on the lyre tuned to accompany the flute, and sang. 89 ❋ Unknown (2007)

And indeed, these royal cup-bearers are neat-handed at their task, mixing the bowl with infinite elegance, and pouring the wine into the beakers without spilling a drop, and when they hand the goblet they poise it deftly between thumb and finger for the banqueter to take. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The proposition was unanimously carried, with a rider appended by Philippus: The cup-bearers should imitate good charioteers, and push the cups round, quickening the pace each circuit. 88 35 ❋ Unknown (2007)

SOCRATES: Are not we the cup-bearers? and here are two fountains which are flowing at our side: one, which is pleasure, may be likened to a fountain of honey; the other, wisdom, a sober draught in which no wine mingles, is of water unpleasant but healthful; out of these we must seek to make the fairest of all possible mixtures. ❋ Unknown (2006)

When a democracy which is thirsting for freedom has evil cup-bearers presiding over the feast, and has drunk too deeply of the strong wine of freedom, then, unless her rulers are very amenable and give a plentiful draught, she calls them to account and punishes them, and says that they are cursed oligarchs. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Next came the petty clerks, the comptrollers, and the higher-ranking gentlemen valets from the four main domestic offices: the cup-bearers, the pantlers, the meat-cutters, and the squires of the stable. ❋ Edward A. Tabri (1990)

Are not we the cup-bearers? and here are two fountains which are flowing at our side: one, which is pleasure, may be likened to a fountain of honey; the other, wisdom, a sober draught in which no wine mingles, is of water unpleasant but healthful; out of these we must seek to make the fairest of all possible mixtures. ❋ Plato (1972)

They entered the first chamber, a large one, serving either as a reception-room, or simply as an ante-room; it was filled with soldiers, servants, secretaries, huntsmen, cup-bearers, and the other servitors indispensable to the support of a Polish magnate's state, all seated along the walls. ❋ Unknown (1952)

Even the little cup-bearers, black, brown, and yellow, all knew how kind-hearted she was, and did not mind in the least the most appalling threats uttered by her sweet, soft voice. ❋ Nancy Huston Banks (N/A)

-- They were alarming enough to curdle the blood of the little cup-bearers, black, brown, and yellow, who always flew like shuttles back and forth between the big house and the distant kitchen while Miss Penelope was making the breakfast coffee. ❋ Nancy Huston Banks (N/A)

But the cup-bearers knew Miss Penelope quite as well as she knew them, and when they came back with the fatty gourd they waited, as a matter of course, till she gave each one of them a generous handful of the sugar, before handing the gourd to David. ❋ Nancy Huston Banks (N/A)

She called all the small cup-bearers, -- for some unknown reason she never called one or two without calling all, -- and sent them running to the smoke-house to fetch the fatty gourd. ❋ Nancy Huston Banks (N/A)

Administrations might come and administrations go, but these pleasant clerks had been cup-bearers to them all -- Presidents 'daughters and diplomats' sons -- the sturdy children of plain ❋ Temple Bailey (N/A)

That was the most critical moment, and it now being safely past, Miss Penelope hastily sent away all the cup-bearers in a body. ❋ Nancy Huston Banks (N/A)

Music and song are supplied by Apollo and the Muses; Gan-y-me'de and He'be are the cup-bearers, Hermes and Iris are the messengers; but Themis, in whom is impersonated the idea of deliberation and of relative rights, is the summoner of the Great Assembly of the gods in the ❋ Marcius Willson (N/A)

They trained Their loved ones, and fostered them with the hands of grace, and sent them forth, with countless treasures, with goodly gifts, and with the forces of Heaven massed behind them — that they might become guides, and holy cup-bearers, of the living, soft-flowing waters of divine bestowals. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The sewers and the cup-bearers heard the clash of swords. ❋ Margaret [Translator] Armour (N/A)

But the cup-bearers were tardy, that should have brought the wine. ❋ Margaret [Translator] Armour (N/A)

Fan-bearers took their post on either side, nobles who held the office of sword-bearers and cup-bearers waited at the steps of the throne. ❋ John Richard Hale (N/A)

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