Sentence examples for precious cup from inspiring English sources

It is there in every shimmering scale of Smaug, the dragon; deprived by a mouse-quiet Bilbo of a single precious cup, he falls, Tolkien writes, into "the sort of rage that is only seen when rich folk that have more than they can enjoy suddenly lose something that they have long had but never used or wanted".

One evocative fresco depicts a miracle that is said to have occurred along that route: A teenager on the pilgrimage with his parents was wrongfully sent to the gallows after he rejected the amorous advances of an innkeeper's daughter, who spitefully planted a precious cup in his baggage and accused him of theft.

A blow from the mecha sends the girl falling, imperilling her precious cup of water.

But he was deeply moved when he gave one child lama a precious porcelain cup that had been used by Deshung Rinpoche, and found that the child recognised it as his own.

The ceding of a precious European Cup place is bad enough but it would be made all the more bitter by the sight of their crosstown rivals gliding into fourth.

Suzie and I quickly retreat to a world where we have long uninterrupted conversations about whatever and the only agenda is when to order that precious second cup.

There are thousands of precious teapots, cups, vases and jars a few steps away.

"When you're given something as precious as the FA Cup, which the nation treasures, or a personal item that a family treasures, you take the responsibility seriously.

Good work from a man about whom I knew precious little before this World Cup.

The 2 points were precious for the defending Stanley Cup champion Blackhawks, who are in eighth place in the Western Conference.

Add foam padding on the inside of the cup to protect precious cargo.