Sipped

Examples

• The milk sipped and the bread eaten, Fanny was again summoned. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Mr. Hale sipped his tea in abstracted silence; Margaret had the responses all to herself. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• And Miss Keeldar quietly sipped her glass of new milk, looking somewhat thoughtful and a little pale; though, indeed, when did she not look pale? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The sick man lay unutterably weak and spent, kept alive by morphia and by drinks, which he sipped slowly. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Use up, and buy more, 's my way;-makes you less trouble, and I'm quite sure it comes cheaper in the end; and Simon sipped his glass. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Everybody remarked the majesty of Jos and the knowing way in which he sipped, or rather sucked, the Johannisberger, which he ordered for dinner. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• You are very kind to me, Charley, she murmured as she sipped. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• But before the shrub and water was sipped out, Miss Abbey bethought herself that she would like to keep a copy of the paper by her. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The momentary situation ended, he passed on, and Eustacia sipped her wine without knowing what she drank. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The curates, meantime, sat and sipped their wine, a liquor of unpretending vintage, moderately enjoyed. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• She sipped the poison. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The youth read studiously; he slowly broke his bread and sipped his milk. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

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