Word: sipped
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...when in Anglican dignity We sip Oxonian tea. Let none in vile malignity Condemn propriety...
Geography in the Vagabond's parlance suggests--well, it suggests a vagabondage to more happy hunting grounds than a Cambridge in the labors of a pre-mature spring slush. That's probably half the trouble with a vagabond's life; a little taste here and a sip there soon makes the world go round in such an interesting fashion that it is a triffe difficult to stay safely put in any particular spot...
...families, accidents will happen. In Nagyrev village, one Mrs. Fazekas was much in demand as a "wise woman'' or midwife because of the frequency with which unwanted babies were born dead under her ministrations. Unfortunately mothers often died as well. One day Mrs. Fazekas saw a fly sip from a saucer in which was a sheet of arsenical flypaper, drop dead. She saw a chicken eat the fly and drop dead in turn. Mrs. Fazekas pondered these interesting phenomena, then ordered great quantities of flypaper from neighboring villages...
...fear, M. le President,"* smiled Catholic Foch, continuing to sip his coffee, "that you do not know of all my family connections. I have a brother who is a Jesuit...
Among the places in the U. S. where one can sip sparingly and legally are the various embassies in Washington, D. C. Also, possessors of sips bought before Prohibition, or prescribed by a doctor since, may sip legally...