The letter was right there at hand in the drawer of the little table upon which Edna had just placed her
coffee cup. Mademoiselle opened the drawer and drew forth the letter, the topmost one.
Napoleon sat down, toying with his Sevres
coffee cup, and motioned Balashev to a chair beside him.
She was a little revived, however, by his bringing back his
coffee cup himself; and she seized the opportunity of saying,
Tom chuckled, but held the peace by hiding his face in his
coffee cup. Sarah, though checked by this flank attack, was herself an old hand in the art.
"You look like Balzac's `FEMME PEINTE PAR ELLE-NENE'," he said, as he fanned her with one hand and held her
coffee cup in the other.
Then I examined the coffee cups, and I knew enough chemistry to find poison in the dregs of one of them.
"I tell you I found the poison in one of the coffee cups."
"Well, well," said Fisher, amiably, "I dare say you are right; but I should just like to have a look at the library and the coffee cups."
Two men with two coffee cups did go into the library and did put their cups on the bookstand and did go together to the well, and one of them was a murderer and had put poison in the other's cup.
But behind the convenient screen Tildy had thrown herself flat upon a table among the butter chips and the
coffee cups, and was sobbing her heart out--out and back again to the grey plain wherein travel they with blunt noses and hay-coloured hair.
The tireless femme-de-chambre set down a tray with
coffee cups on the table.
A coffee shop in Shropshire has invested in the UK's only fully recyclable
coffee cup made of recycled paper, the Frugal Cup.
coffee cup - a cup from which coffee is drunk