The second pot boiling over the fire contained the coffee; which, quaffed from the calabashes, tasted as fine as if sipped out of cups of the purest Sevres porcelain.
Raging thirst has no scruples; and, bending over one of the leaves of the tillandsia, he placed his lips to the cool water, and freely quaffed it.
The bride kissed the goblet; the knight took it up, He quaffed of the wine, and he threw down the cup.
He obeyed with fear and trembling; they quaffed the liquor in profound silence, and then returned to their game.
England at St. James's, and Stanislas Leczinski of Poland at Nancy, both quaffed of the same vintage of Ay despatched in 1754 from the cellars of Bertin du Rocheret.
When Pegasus reached the summit, he stamped the ground with his hoofs, and out gushed the waters of Hippocrene, afterwards so renowned as the sacred fount, whence the Muses quaffed their richest draughts of inspiration.
Meanwhile numbers of other shades had quaffed the sense-awakening draught of the sacrifice, among whom Odysseus recognized to his dismay his tenderly-loved mother Anticlea.
The good Trajan quaffed off numberless cups every day: of course he became the idol of the human species.
This philosopher, with all his wisdom, could not help showing his bad temper, even towards his best friends at times, but was very affable after he hadquaffed several cups of delicious wine.
The rich muscadel and malmsey, and the wines of Gascoigne and the Rhine, are no longerquaffed by the abbot and his more honoured guests, but drunk to his destruction by his foes.
This is the Day in which He Who held converse with God hath attained the light of the Ancient of Days, and quaffed the pure waters of reunion from this Cup that hath caused the seas to swell.
Well is it with him who hath quaffedthe Mystic Wine of everlasting life from the utterance of his merciful Lord in My Name—a Name through which every lofty and majestic mountain hath been reduced to dust.
Thou hast quaffed off my wine, and canst be man no longer.
Revelers sat round the laden board and feasted and sang and quaffedrich wines from silver goblets.
Mr. Scadder and Mr. Jefferson Brick were to him the men who said (in cooperation) that "the libation of freedom must sometimes be quaffed in blood.
Hearing instructions from thee that are productive of good to our race and kingdom, I shall be able to pass my days in happiness like a person gratified with having quaffed the deathless Amrita.
I will impart to thee, like a person gratified with having quaffed nectar.
Sprung from a quantity of clarified butter that had been sanctified by mantras (and that had by mistake been quaffed by his sire instead of his sire's spouse) Mandhatri was born in the stomach of the high-souled Yuvanaswa.
Having caused so many heroic kings who were always devoted to righteousness and all of whom had quaffed Soma in sacrifices, what end shall I attain, O great ascetic!
He beheld his son there, his bloodquaffed off, and lying lifeless on the ground like the moon dropped from the firmament.
Vaisampayana continued, 'Hearing these words of Bhishma, Yudhishthira became highly gratified as if he had quaffed nectar.
He quaffed two cups of the coffee in quick succession.
And accepting the lesser of the two sacrifices, Morales lifted from between the banderillero and himself the cup containing the partly finished brandy, and quaffed it down in one great draught.
Would that life's cup had been by me Quaffed in such wise and happy measure, And that I too might finally Look on my shroud with such meek pleasure!
He lived on the sweetness of prayer alone,--and as he quaffed it, he knelt so long on the cold floor of the church that his legs below the knee swelled and became like posts.
In taste it did not resemble European wines: it was very sweet and spicy; and, quaffed slowly, in small sips, it produced in all the limbs a sensation of agreeable drowsiness.
Each one of them, thanks to your kindness, has quaffed a cup of liquor: and now we are all rejoicing and making merry!
The landlady now approached, and demanded payment of her reckoning, including all that had been quaffed by Major Galbraith and his Highland friends.
One man in his desperation sprang to the lamp and quaffed the dirty oil.
Carney quaffed the scalding tea, and raced with the buckskin in the eating of his food.
And here mechanically Hatton filled his glass, and quaffed at once a bumper.
Was the great red wine that Drake hadquaffed Vinegar?
So Tristan sailed from Ireland As youth must always sail; He quaffed the cup, nor asked the wine; He dared, nor feared to fail.
I ate the air and bitterly I quaffed The death damp; nor my pleading nor my craft Availed to aid me in my desperate plight: The vista of high heaven the only sight To see, and at my woe high heaven had laughed.
He poured a second glass of port, sipped it, quaffed it, poured a third.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quaffed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
