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Usage examples of teacup.

By then, as she sat in the little parlor, a teacup atremble on one knee, a plate just balanced on the other, Betsy was beginning to flag.

I won two hands and lost two, tipped him, and continued on to the backstage area just as the teacup number came to an end.

He went behind the counter that divided the kitchen area from the rest of the apartment and poured water from the pot whistling on the stove into two small, handleless teacups.

With great presence of mind she spread out her cerulean plumes so that the Teacup settled upon them harmlessly, instead of crashing down upon the hard emerald bottom and shattering to bits.

One of The Teacups, to whom I have slightly referred, is an accomplished pianist, and the two Annexes sing very sweetly together,--the American girl having a clear soprano voice, the English girl a mellow contralto.

On the following day Mr. Weevle, who is a handy good-for-nothing kind of young fellow, borrows a needle and thread of Miss Flite and a hammer of his landlord and goes to work devising apologies for window-curtains, and knocking up apologies for shelves, and hanging up his two teacups, milkpot, and crockery sundries on a pennyworth of little hooks, like a shipwrecked sailor making the best of it.

The four old faces then hover over teacups like a company of ghastly cherubim, Mrs. Smallweed perpetually twitching her head and chattering at the trivets and Mr.

Idly, I picked up the halves of the teacup, rewrapped them in newspaper, and tucked them back in the box.

Suppose that our circle of Teacups were made up of specialists,--experts in various departments.

It is the custom at our table to vary the usual talk, by the reading of short papers, in prose or verse, by one or more of The Teacups, as we are in the habit of calling those who make up our company.

I received congratulations on reaching my eightieth birthday, not only from our circle of Teacups, but from friends, near and distant, in large numbers.

The Teacups in the way of reading as well as I do how many lumps of sugar the Professor wants in his tea and how many I want in mine.

IV If the reader thinks that all these talking Teacups came together by mere accident, as people meet at a boarding-house, I may as well tell him at once that he is mistaken.

This is a hint to the reader, who is not expected to be too curious about the individual Teacups constituting our unorganized association.

That made a laugh, in which most of The Teacups, myself included, joined heartily.