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How To Use goblet In A Sentence

• And if from this conjunction a baby was born, the infernal rite was resumed, all around a little jar of wine, which they called the keg, and they became drunk and would cut the baby to pieces, and pour its blood into the goblet, and they threw babies on the fire, still alive, and they mixed the baby's ashes and his blood, and drank! The Name of the Rose
• Cake/dessert, or sweetmeat baskets are extremely popular and apart from the converted liners already mentioned, dismantled epergnes and converted goblets are the two most common deceptions.
• As the other one danced around a fire that kicked away the vespertine dark, my companion passed me a clay goblet of spirits.
• Another man turned away from her, when she approached him, to have his goblet of paga filled by a luscious, half-naked, collared slave. Cinnamon Roll
• A large drinking bowl or goblet made of metal or hard wood.
• In many of the fungiform and most of the circumvallate papillæ are peculiar structures called taste buds or taste goblets. A Practical Physiology
• 'Now am I well lighted here,' he said, 'for this is the very goblet which thy robber knight Sir Lancelot reaved from my brother, Sir King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls
• Another from Tanagra in Boiotia shows a person raising a kylix or goblet while another individual raises both hands in an apparent gesture of mourning.
• (sceal) eorl wegan māððum tō ge-myndum (_no earl shall wear a memorial jewel_), 3016; pret.ind. hē þā frætwe wæg ... ofer ȳða ful (_bore the jewels over the goblet of the waves_), 1208; wæl-seaxe ... þæt hē on byrnan wæg, 2705; heortan sorge wæg (_bore heart's sorrow_); so, 152, 1778, 1932, Beowulf
• Sculptors and carvers fashion teakwood goblets, cigar and jewelry boxes, and board games such as dominoes and backgammon.