How To Use Stoup In A Sentence
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A factory document of 1743 reveals that a series of holy water stoups had been commissioned by the nuns in the Royal Convent of Unshod Carmelites in Madrid.
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They stopped for a stoup of water at the fountain in the middle of the graveyard before going through the south porch of the cathedral.
A SHRINE OF MURDERS
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II.3 has Iago left alone after Cassio's departure, after he has wheedled him into drinking a stoup of wine.
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Eli even invited him to break a manchet and drink a stoup of wine to give him heart for his journey.
The Cloister and the Hearth
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Carrying a silver flask and a tiny glass stoup, the innkeep came hurrying back.
A TIME OF WAR
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_Stoup_, or _stowp_, a kind of high narrow jug or dish with a handle for holding liquids.
The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham
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One appeared to be a holy water stoup such as was found in Roman Catholic churches, of a plain character.
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I tell thee, Alan, I have seen a better seated on the fourth round of a ladder, and painting a bare-breeched Highlander, holding a pint-stoup as big as himself, and a booted Lowlander, in a bobwig, supporting a glass of like dimensions; the whole being designed to represent the sign of the Salutation.
Redgauntlet
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Sometimes she took a bottle with her to fill with holy water for the pink china stoup which hung by Mam's makeshift bed.
THE GOLDEN LION
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On the walls there were rosaries, medals, several pictures of the Virgin, and a holy-water stoup made out of a coconut.
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The bounty so much delighted mine host, that he ran to fill the stirrup-cup (for which no charge was ever made) from a butt yet charier than that which he had pierced for the former stoup.
The Monastery
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And let's have a stoup of malvoisie from the oldest bin.
Jill the Reckless
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But she gains other layers as I explain about the stoup of holy water, and as the unfamiliar sound of a mighty organ thunders and peals around us, while for me the layers just keep on accumulating.
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The foreigner, who was supping on a Crail-capon (in other words a broiled haddock) and stoup of Bourdeaux wine, arose at their entrance, and bowed with, an air that was undisguisedly continental.
The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852
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Among them were an 11th century grave cover, a Norman window head and a holy water stoup, which provide evidence that Burnsall had a stone church in the 11th century.
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Old Keltie, the landlord, who had bestowed his name on a bridge in the neighbourhood of his quondam dwelling, received the carrier with his usual festive cordiality, and adjourned with him into the house, under pretence of important business, which, I believe, consisted in their emptying together a mutchkin stoup of usquebaugh.
The Abbot
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Roy Macdonald complied with the summons, taking with him a half mutchkin stoup full of whiskey.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.
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Burns told Thomson and Mrs. Dunlop that this noble and most moving song was old; but nobody believed him then, and nobody believes him now. pint-stoup = _pint-mug_ braes = _hill-sides_ gowans = _daisies_ paidl't = _paddled_ burn = _brook_ fiere = _friend_, _companion_ guid-willie = _well-meant_, _full of good-will_ waught = _draught_
Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys