This is the way a true soldado discusses a stoup of good Bordeaux," and setting the brim to his lips, he never took it away till the tankard was empty.
Drawer, another stoup of the clary--Now, gentle sir, may I make bold to ask news of yourself?
A similar phenomenon existed at Llangelynin, in the old church, between Barmouth and Towyn, but when the roof fell in the stoup became dry.
It is overgrown with moss and fern, and contains a stoupthat is ever full of water.
There, I bear no malice; get yourselves a stoup of wine, in payment for your services.
For all of the which," says I, cutting more beef, "I ask you now to drink a stoup of ale with me.
He called to his attendants to fetch a stoup of wine and some refreshments.
There was a young gentleman, not like a prisoner either, only I fancied under some restraint; and I brought him a better stoup of wine than I brought the rest.
But I have a nice cabin for you here in a corner of the trench, and a good soft bed, all ready, with a boiled pullet; and we will have a good stoup of wine together, as we had when you sold me that diamond signet.
Lad, you gave me a gliff; pass me another stoup of wine!
The fierce Lutheran chief astounded his guests by his capacity for drinking, and he emptied stoup after stoup of Rhenish during the repast, but though frightful atrocities.
We do not often find the stoup of so ancient a date as the twelfth century; one much mutilated, but apparently of that era, may however be met with inside the little Norman church of Beaudesert, Warwickshire, near to the south door.
The sculpture of the Holy Water Stoup and of the inner doorway is remarkably rich.
And now, while your horse is being got ready, let us drink a stoup of wine together in memory of old times, though, for myself, these wines of ours are poor and insipid beside the fiery juice of Spain.
We have no cups here; take it from the stoup good Blawket, and hand it to your comrades.
The men die like sheep in the hospital, and get sour bread tossed to them as if they were pigs, and are thrashed if they pawn their muskets for a stoupof drink when their throats are as dry as the desert--and you live in clover.
STOUP A vessel for consecrated water, at or near the entrance to a church.
Illustration: A Detached Holy-water Stoup of unusual design.
A good example of an outside stoup is that at Broadmayne, Dorset, where there is also one inside the church.
For my part I sat silent, crippled with fatigue, trying to forget my wounded feet, drinking stoup after stoup of beer and watching the Phocean.
A mile farther is West Ferring with a plain Early English church; notice the later Perpendicular stoup at the north door and the piscina, which has a marble shelf.
Notice the quaint wooden gallery and the stairs to the rood loft, and also a stoup in good preservation.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stoup" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bottle; canteen; corporal; cruet; flask; jar; jug; sink
