Tea was served, not in cups and saucers, as Jennie had been accustomed to seeing it handed round, but in goblets of clear, thin Venetian glass, each set in a holder of encrusted filigree gold.
Jennie and she became quite confidential over their goblets of tea, a beverage of which the old lady seemed inordinately fond.
With a single mighty impulse the vines took deep hold of the treasure in the storehouse beneath, spending it prodigally for sap to be poured into these waiting goblets of emerald and pearl.
The fish, flesh, and fowl served in heavy silver platters were offered entire to each guest, who with his dagger cut his own portion, drinking from silver gobletsplaced at his side.
Taking in his hand, from a salver placed on the ground, one of the jewelled goblets which lay on it, and filling it with sherbet, Kerim rises to his feet.
Again the goblets are crowned with drink; that is to say, they are filled so that the liquor stands above the brim, and the cups have a sort of crown of wine on them.
And it was furnished in the most exquisite manner with pictures and statues, and with goblets and vases of every form and shape imaginable.
And Sappho says-- The goblets rich were with ambrosia crown'd, Which Hermes bore to all the gods around.
On the opposite side of the sitting-room there was fixed another sideboard, opposite to that on which the cups and goblets were placed; and on that were all the rest of the things which had been prepared for, or could come into use.
And then when the guests have departed, the handmaidens Bore off the feast, and clear'd the lofty hall, Removed the goblets and the tables all.
Let ours be marble palaces, silk robes, purple carpets, goblets of delicious wines, full purses, and beauteous Saracen women to rock us to sleep with their songs!
But the demon had been very busy and from lip to lip had already passed the goblets and the drinking horns.
Therefore, also, every man wore his full armor; but of the women there were some who carried goblets and pitchers which had been Hilda's, of pottery and of bronze and of silver and of beaten gold.
The king then called him, and pressed him with goblets of wine, which made him merry.
In some of the greater houses, at the beginning of the meal, two juniors, one from each side, took their goblets and spoons and came to the table of the presiding superior.
I look down the flaming crocus throats--the imperial purple goblets with powdery gold stamens--and at the modest little pink faces of the hepaticas.
At thirteen minutes to nine Mr. Ripple let his monocle drop; Mr. Oboe replaced his watch; the Pump Room bell began to clang very fast; the Exquisite Mob started to climb the hill and innumerable glass goblets glittered in the sun.
Burgundy," replied Blewforth with a great guffaw that made all the glasses and goblets and decanters on the big oak dresser ring an echo.
The widow glances over her shoulder at the crowds swinging down the street, all equipped with glass goblets of various sizes and shapes.
The goblets from which the guests drank were enriched with gems.
The table was of cedar wood, supported by pillars of ivory, and it sparkled with goblets of gold and silver embossed by Mys and Mentor, among which were scattered amber cups, and chrysendeta which were of silver rimmed with gold.
What does it matter whether the goblets of a philosopher be of crystal or of clay?
The servants barely had time to fill the gobletsbefore they were empty again.
Then the slaves hastened forward--some with handfuls of ornaments, others carried goblets studded with pearls, other again dragged sacks filled with gold coin.
What pleases us, is to see her shrinking from everybody else, growing hard and frozen to them on our account, handing them nothing but ices and cold pudding, but serving us with glowinggoblets of love.
He not only takes up the goblets from a stand, and places them over the balls, but leaves them there for a minute, and holds his hands up, to show the audience that he conceals nothing in his palm or sleeve.
The old fellow drank and then I brought him some little dainties to eat: meat pasties they were, nicely peppered, and I made him take down four full goblets of wine.
At a signal from Plato, slaves filled the goblets with wine, and he rose to propose the usual libation to the gods.
Now odorous wines the goblets fill; Gold-cradled meats the menials bear From gilded chair to gilded chair: Now roars the talk like crashing seas, Foams upward to the painted frieze, Echoes and ebbs.
He groaned aloud, and feeling he should have need of all his strength, filled one of the goblets from a half-emptied flask of Cyprus wine.
Golden goblets did not mean much to King Atahuallpa, however, for his palace of five hundred different apartments is said to have been tiled with beaten gold.
Prescott tells us that Atahuallpa, the Peruvian monarch, came to see the conqueror, Pizarro, "quaffing chicha from golden goblets borne by his attendants.
Dessert has just been handed round and the guests have golden goblets in front of them.
During the last part of the foregoing speech servants have exchanged the golden goblets for dull tin ones, and they now begin to take away the pheasants, peacocks, etc.
For the principal guests there was no want of coarse goblets of Bohemian glass; delicious water abounded in vases of porous pottery, which might be blended, if necessary, with the red or white wine of the mountain.
Practice made the guests accustomed to the porcelain of Paris and the goblets of Prague.
At this moment entered four pages and four maidens bringing sweetmeats from the Queen, and goblets of iced water.
On the table, among the lighted candelabra, two white, tarred necks of bottles stuck up out of an electroplated vase, which had sweated from the cold, and the light in a tenuous gold played in the shallow goblets of wine.
At this moment Simeon walked into the cabinet with a tray upon which stood two goblets of a bubbling golden wine and lay a large visiting card.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "goblets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
