But before putting pencil to score pad, Penny cupped her chin in her hands and stared at Carolyn Drake.
A slab from Warren county, Ohio, has a shallow cavity worked into one side and a cupped hole in the other.
Cupped stones are found wherever representatives of the Bureau have worked, and numerous references might be given concerning their existence in other localities.
The cupped stones in the Bureau collection are almost invariably of reddish sandstone, of varying texture, from a few ounces to 30 pounds in weight.
As is the case with cupped stones, when made of slabs, both sides have been worked; when of rough blocks, only one.
Conjecture and theory have had full sway in regard to the uses of cupped stones; but the question is apparently far from solution.
Neither of these statements seems to have any reference to cupped stones.
He was sitting with his elbows on his knees, his chin in his cupped hands, and a pipe thrust aggressively out the corner of his mouth, the while he stared moodily at his feet.
She seated herself in front of Moira and cupped her chin in her palm.
When he cupped his hands around the remaining lighted candle Joe ignited this waxed strip, taking care to work it away from his palms and fingers.
Joe cupped his hands around the lighted candle, seeming to take the flame up in his fingers.
Now we have Joe with a little blazing taper concealed in his cupped hands, advancing to the candle he first blew out.
Starr went over and picked up the toad, holding it cupped between his palms.
Cupped in the valley between them lay a gigantic glacier whose front was a solid wall of ice ten miles across and as high as a fifteen-story building.
When Jerry slipped and fell, Sandy cupped his hands to his mouth like a megaphone and yelled: "Charley!
He cupped his hands and called,--in the vain hope that the stories of Hazard Pass and its loneliness might not be true, after all.
Kilbane Worthington was seated at the large table, much in the manner which he had affected in court, elbows on the surface, chin cupped in his thin, nervous hands.
Wink leaned weakly against the wall and Perry set a foot on his cupped hands and was just able to reach the top of the wall.
Perry cupped his hands and sent a hail across the water.
Then for a slight moment she dozed, with her body at full stretch and hardly raising the coverlet, and her thin cheek cupped in the palm of her thin hand.
Left alone, the girl sat on the porch with her troubled face cupped in her hands and a furrow of perplexity spoiling her smooth white brow.
She never gestured with an upturned thumb; nor yet made a spy-glass of her cupped hand through which to gaze upon a painting.
He cupped his bands over his eyes as an imaginary range-finder, sweeping the field.
He cupped his hand over his ear in the unctuous enjoyment of his gift of acting.
His body still, transfixed, hecupped his hands over his eyes.
The patient wascupped on the nape of the neck by Mr. Osmond, and, on the glasses drawing, showed signs of consciousness, and the breathing was relieved.
Luckily there was no water cupped there, for McNeil lay in the bottom of that dip, his arms tied tightly behind him and his ankles lashed together with no thought for the pain of his burned leg.
He eagerly drank the water they carried to him in cupped hands and gave a little sigh of relief as Ross wiped his face with wet grass, muttering something about Kelgarries which neither of his companions understood.
He had cupped his hands and had stared gloomily at the sea.
He cupped his chin in his hands and, as if seeing the palaces and temples of that lost civilization, sat staring at the jungle.
But under the hand which he held reverently cupped over his brow Jeff's eyes were fixed upon a certain focal point,--to wit, the door of the main entrance at the length of the hall from him.
She felt in a fob set under the cuff of her left sleeve and brought forth a small gold badge and held it cupped in her gloved hand for him to see.
Closer examination, however, showed it to be a neatly cupped nest resting on the branch and short twigs.
The nest is fairly deeply cuppedand averages about 3 inches in outside diameter, 2-1/2 in inside diameter, and the same in depth.
He cupped his hands now and called to his fellows on the beach.
The man in her stood up with hands cupped over his mouth.
I could just manage to scoop the river dry with a quick sweep of my cupped palm.
She cupped a hand at her ear and leaned to listen.
In his left hand he held them, and the coins brimmed his cupped palm.
She set the butter down on the rock at her feet, cupped her hands about her lips and sent out a keen, clear call, two notes, one rising, one falling.
Lola, gleaming like a bird of paradise in her gay habiliments, leaning forward from the further steps of Baston's store where she had slipped up unnoticed, cupped her white hands to her scarlet mouth, and sent out a cry like a clarion.
Muscles cupped his free hand on the back of Chan's head.
His mind was in a turmoil as he lay on the hard wooden bench, his cuppedhands beneath his head serving for a pillow.
Dawson took a couple of steps, then stopped and cupped his two hands to his mouth.
As the man in gray introduced himself, he slipped something out of his pocket and held it cupped in his hand so both youths could see it.
The top of the style is expanded into a cupped stigma on which are many glutinous points.
She was leaning forward, her chin cupped in her palms, staring out over the valley that stretched at their feet.
She brought it obediently and poured it into his cupped hands.
Just give us time--" Raf cupped his palms over his watering eyes.
Dalgard cupped his chin in his hand and tried to imagine what it would be like to shut oneself up in a small metal-walled spacer and set out blindly to leave one world for another.
But when one of those paws shot out to snatch the treasure, the traveler's hand was already cupped protectingly over the hoard.
That is, they did not until the road dipped before them and they started down into a cupped hollow filled with buildings.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cupped" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
