Word: cup
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...chess tournament closed on Tuesday evening, and Mr. C. P. E. Burgwyn, L. L. S., was declared the winner of the Challenge Cup offered by the club. The second prize was won by Mr. G. P. Faucon, '75. The standing of each contestant at the close of the tournament was as follows...
WITH regard to aquatic matters, we understand that the question as to whether the Beacon Cup shall be contested by crews made up from the several clubs or from the classes, is at present an open one. We consider the former plan the better one for various reasons, the principal of which lie in the complete success which has attended the club system, and in its admirable fitness to our wants. We fail to see any sufficient inducement to make us abandon a system so plainly satisfactory to all, and recur to an old method of forming crews, which every...
...laughing, that you may not weep, - mirth, lest you become sad, - anger, that it may not return into your own heart, - joy, lest you find too soon that it stays not on the earth, - the excitement of wine, of music, or of company, for he who drinks of that cup shall find the dregs bitter. In all things seek regularity, for it is the surest destroyer of thought, and all thought leads to dissatisfaction. Arrange a system of hours which has no time allotted for reflection, and so you may escape it; for he who observes a perfect regularity...
...drug was taking firmer hold every moment. Of a sudden, an idea came to me. I remembered the peculiar effect of a dose of warm water which a friend had once administered to me by way of a practical joke. My candle was burning, and a little tin drinking-cup, full of water, stood beside it. I snatched up the cup and held it over the flame. If I could warm the water soon enough I should be saved - if not - the laudanum - how cold it was - it was nearly bedtime - I was so sleepy. A drowsy confusion of thought...
...poisoned thy glance, like the cup thou couldst...