Just then the cupbearer appeared with the wine; a girlish lad he was, with long blond curls.
I have been his cupbearer and taster, and as frequently shared his outdoor sports; now hunting with hawk, and now with hound.
The Cupbearer himself and all his successors were to be at liberty to communicate either in the chapel or in the Mother Church.
In return for these concessions and privileges, the Cupbearer not only confirmed the gifts of land made by his father to the chapel, but also added a grant of other four acres in pure and perpetual alms.
The stool hit the cupbearer on his right hand and knocked him down: the man fell with a cry flat on his back, and his wine-jug fell ringing to the ground.
Then he sat down on the seat from which he had risen, and Antinous said: "Come on each of you in his turn, going towards the right from the place at which the cupbearer begins when he is handing round the wine.
Let thecupbearer go round with the drink-offerings, that we may make them and go home to our rest.
It is the rule and custom of the cupbearer to pour out a little of the wine and taste it before handing the cup to me.
That may be so," answered Cyrus, "but if you will let me be your cupbearer tomorrow, I think I can serve you quite as well.
He was in the court of Artaxerxes, a cupbearer to the king, and held a high position.
I have won me a youth," the Elf Queen said, "The fairest that earth may see; This night I have won young Elph Irving My cupbearer to be.
In the legends of the people of Corrievale, there is a singular mixture of elfin and human adventure, and the traditional story of the Cupbearer to the Queen of the Fairies appeals alike to our domestic feelings and imagination.
Once reunited, rejoice in being together and, when the cupbearertakes in his hand a cup of old wine, remember poor Khayyam and drink to his memory.
Each mouthful of wine which the cupbearer pours into the cup helps to extinguish the fire of anger in thy burning eyes.
I be the slave of that delicious moment when the cupbearer said to me: Another cup!
This silly sorrow-laden heart of mine Is ever pining for that Love of mine; When the Cupbearer poured the wine of love, With my heart's blood he filled this cup of mine!
O comrades dear, when hither ye repair In times to come, communion sweet to share, While the cupbearer pours your old Magh wine, Call poor Khayyam to mind, and breathe a prayer.
So the son of Menelaus, although he was the bridegroom, and at his own wedding, acted; and in the poem of the beautiful Sappho, even Mercury acts as the cupbearerto the gods.
A rival, however, gained over the cupbearer of Hyrcanus, who put Antipater to death by poison as he was one day dining with Hyrcanus (43 B.
Nehemiah, whose recollections helped to compose this work, was a zealous Jew, cupbearer to king Artaxerxes.
He drank their health, but let the ring which the Princess had put upon his finger as he lay by the lake fall into the glass, and bade the cupbearer go and greet the bride and hand her the glass.
He was cupbearer to Artaxerxes, a position of much ease and wealth.
One day at the table the king noticed that the face of his cupbearer was sad.
The elaborate ceremonial ritual with sewer, carver, and cupbearer was gone.
The different connections between the ceremonies of the ancients with the Cup and the cupbearer have been described in the chapter relating to that emblem.
After Mercury gave up being the cupbearer of Olympus to the beautiful Hebe he retained the badge of office, and "the cup of Hermes" remained as one of his attributes as a reminder of this position.
When he had drunk this, all heat and weariness fled from his body, and the cupbearer presented him with a towel to wipe his mouth withal; and then having performed his office he disappeared, waiting neither for recompense nor inquiry.
When a cupbearer attempted to bar his way he struck the cup from his hand and dashed the contents in the Emperor's face.
Then the chief cupbearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, "I remember my faults today.
It happened the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast for all his servants, and he lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants.
Yet the chief cupbearer didn't remember Joseph, but forgot him.
They both dreamed a dream, each man his dream, in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were bound in the prison.
Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker.
On the frescoes from Knossos we find the cupbearer and other male figures represented wearing their hair in long, wavy tresses reaching to the waist or thereabouts.
But the cupbearer and the cook began to laugh, and asked the holy man if he could possibly mistake the king's courtiers for miserable beggars, that he presumed to offer them his scraps of fish-bone and his frog-wine.
He drank their health, but let the ring which the Princess had put upon his finger as he lay by the lake fall into the glass, and bade the cupbearer go and greet the bride and hand her the glass.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cupbearer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
