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"Stoup" Quotes from Famous Books

... Ask from your courtier, to your inns-of-court-man, To your mere milliner; they will tell you all, Your Spanish gennet is the best horse; your Spanish Stoup is the best garb; your Spanish beard Is the best cut; your Spanish ruffs are the best Wear; your Spanish pavin the best dance; Your Spanish titillation in a glove The best perfume: and for your Spanish pike, And Spanish blade, let your poor ...

— The Alchemist • Ben Jonson

... pint-stoup, And surely I'll be mine; And we'll tak a cup o' kindness yet For auld lang ...

— Old Ballads • Various

... Constable of France. . . . Also among Tusitala's kin may be noted, in addition to the later Gordons of Gight, the Tiger Earl of Crawford, familiarly known as 'Earl Beardie,' the 'Wicked Master' of the same line, who was fatally stabbed by a Dundee cobbler 'for taking a stoup of drink from him'; Lady Jean Lindsay, who ran away with 'a common jockey with the horn,' and latterly became a beggar; David Lindsay, the last Laird of Edzell [a lichtsome Lindsay fallen on evil days], who ended his days ...

— Robert Louis Stevenson - a Record, an Estimate, and a Memorial • Alexander H. Japp

... them a waught o' drink and a bannock—we'll ne'er miss't, and it looks creditable in a house like ours. And now, hinny, gang awa', and serve the folk, but first bring me my dinner, and twa chappins o' yill and the mutchkin stoup o' brandy." ...

— Old Mortality, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott

Words linked to "Stoup" : basin, drinking vessel, stoop