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Without a word, she bounded up and flitted off like a brown bird, gleaming dull-golden in the sun, glancing in and out among the trees, till she paused above a tiny black pool, and then came tripping and swaying back with hands held cupwise and dripping with cool water.

The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel 1915

He held his hand cupwise to his ear, as so often before.

The Willows Algernon Blackwood 1910

He held his hand cupwise to his ear, as so often before.

Famous Modern Ghost Stories Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev 1895

At times, again, the piece projects slightly beyond the mouth, so that, to enter, it has to be pressed down and curved cupwise.

Bramble-Bees and Others Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

The player grasped a cymbal in each hand, and either clashed theme together horizontally, or else, holding one cupwise in his left, brought the other down upon it perpendicularly with his right.

The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2. (of 7): Assyria The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. George Rawlinson 1857