Sentence examples for cup of mead from inspiring English sources
I'm sure that the show will be a big hit and do quite well for FX, though it's not really my cup of mead.
In stanzas 53 and 54 of the poem Lokasenna, after pouring Loki a crystal cup of mead during his series of insults towards the gods, Sif states that there is nothing Loki can say only in regard to her.
"Mead is a wine and a wine made with honey instead of grapes," said Vicky Rowe, a director of the annual Mazer Cup International Mead Competition, whose entrants have doubled to 218, from 100, in just the last three years.
In the opening scene at the bacchanal in Venusberg, where the young knight Tannhäuser is growing tired of fleshy pleasures, instead of voluptuous sirens, bathing naiads and dancing nymphs, Mr. Arlaud gives us three robed female attendants to Venus, who pour cups of something (nectar, mead?) from a silver teapot.
In the Nobel laureate Halldór Laxness's great Icelandic novel "Independent People," a peasant wedding is celebrated with everyone having four or five cups of coffee, as others peasants in other lands might drink flagons of mead or ale.
Overdid it on goblets of mead.
This may be partly due to the explosion in styles of mead as its makers move past the sweet, slightly caramelized, honey-forward traditional mead of that Renaissance Faire.
With a glass of mead, it is as if you were holding the flowers themselves.
It's 200 years old, and was dishing out tankards of mead before the battle of Waterloo.
"That protein has been tied to the harshness of mead, so, take out the protein, and it's smoother".
