How To Use Supping In A Sentence
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The outraged Father was supping noisily from his medicine, oblivious of the head's disapproving frown.
THE MANANA MAN
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Melvyn Bragg would look great here leaning up against the bar supping a pint.
FALLEN WOMEN
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But the idea of supping with the Duke raised him just now into manifest complacency.
The Cloister and the Hearth
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How relish you the idea of supping with Captain Lawton, this evening, Mr. Birch?
The Spy
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However, she succeeded in pouring out and carrying into the parlor, without accident, three platefuls of that excellent condiment which formed the frugal supper of the family; but which they ate, I grieve to say, in an orthodox southern fashion, with sugar or treacle, until Mr. Lyon -- greatly horrified thereby -- had instituted his national custom of "supping" porridge with milk.
Mistress and Maid. A Household Story.
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The height o 'nonsense is supping soor milk wi' an elshin.
The Proverbs of Scotland
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It is a strange sight as there are some playing at dominoes just by the side of us and a little further on they are playing at cards and on the other side they are supping their gruel.
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The water cures any disease, so they say, and at any time a crowd is found around its magic brim filling jars, bottles, and pitchers to take home, or supping from the copper bowl that is chained to the iron bars that cover the well.
Six Months in Mexico
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We did not much relish the idea of supping and sleeping in such a place -- but necessity has no law.
Fast in the Ice Adventures in the Polar Regions
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After supping our drinks and relaxing in the lounge we were taken into the restaurant.
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After supping her fill of horrors, her capacity to feel compassion was deeply affected.
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It was hard not to feel a little ridiculous, supping on delicacies while people worked at breakneck speed to get them to us.
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Don't tell me, I said, the animals are downstairs supping Cyprus wine out of a jewelled goblet.
A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
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The journey from Wellington to Tauranga is one I make regularly, and I've drummed out a solid rhythm of stopping, snacking and supping along the way.
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Don't tell me, I said, the animals are downstairs supping Cyprus wine out of a jewelled goblet.
A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
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They're not scared of chomping raw puffer fish, supping bat-wing broth or crunching crispy duck's feet.
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As I sat supping beer after the rehearsal, sometime around 11 pm last night, I was working on the basis that I would have a nice lie-in the next morning, and it didn't matter if I had another pint.
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And who wouldn't enjoy the sight of the first brimstone of the year eagerly supping at a garden primrose.
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He was supping a half of Guinness while looking oddly like a Guinness himself in his black polo neck and angular shock of white hair.
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His guilelessness seemed to say that there was nothing to see here, folks, just Ranger Rick supping on half-digested chunks of low-grade meat.
Chameleon
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Take of my electuary with a spoon after supping, and wash it down with a sherbet made of rose conserve; but first sup off mutton and house pigeon plentifully seasoned and hotly spiced.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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There's no way of supping a full latte without getting a foamy moustache on your upper lip and it looks as daft on a power person as it does on an old grey man.
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Since my first sighting of Don Draper supping a scotch I've been hooked on US TV drama.
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Quote of the pub: “Oh yes, that really is supping from the appley teet!”
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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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Occasionally the fine chance occurs to atack the foe while encamping or breakfasting or supping, or as the men turn out of bed: seasons at which the soldier is apt to be unharnessed — the hoplite for a shorter, the cavalry trooper for a longer period. 120
The Cavalry General
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Usually alongside a busy road, these places are perfect for supping ale and eating crisps in the baking hot sun.
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On the other side of the track, the enclosure was teeming with people tucking into food hampers while supping from cans and plastic glasses.
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The fear of running into one of these Cumbrian ale aficionados, supping on mysterious-smelling brews of porridgy so-called real ale amid background tones of chronic bronchitis, keeps many people away.
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Do you mean that you are not accustomed as I am to invalidism, and hardly like the notion of supping in bed as an introduction to strangers?
Bricks without Straw A Novel
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As we approached them, I noticed Dad was supping a two thirds full half-pint glass of Guinness.