Word: cups
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...tournament shall be open to all the members of the Club, irrespective of their having passed the entrance examination. Every contestant shall play one game with every other contestant; and the one winning the greatest number of games shall receive the first prize, together with the Challenge Cup; and the victor in the next largest number of games shall receive the second prize. Not more than five minutes shall be allowed for any move. If any contestant retire before having completed his series, all games played by him shall be thrown out of the calculation...
...belt with the names of the subjects. The ventilators underneath are to be occupied by representations of episodes appropriate to the figures, together with suitable inscriptions, - the one in the Sidney window, by the representation of the death of Sir Philip, and the incident of his giving the cup of water to a wounded soldier, probably with the inscription, "Thy necessity is yet greater than mine"; and the other, by the picture of the Spartan matron giving the shield to her son, while for an inscription, either on the shield or above the picture, her words may be placed...
...pour his millions o'er my brimming cup...
...Spectator is goody, painfully so. Its philippics against the intoxicating cup are truly Swinburne-like. The Pegasus of the far North is evidently a teetotaller, - possibly his didactic flights and broken-winded canter might go far towards proving him a jackass. One of his most graceful curvets is recorded below...
...waiters and other employes will be engaged in clearing up till a very late hour. Nor is this all. Men will not be satisfied, after being without food for five hours, and running to and from recitations during this time, with nothing but bread and butter and a cup of tea at noon, but it will be necessary to place before them a large quantity of meat not required now at tea, because the interval between meals is so short. This will considerably increase the expenses, and for this increase there is no margin left in the price of board...