He approached the offending object warily but with his temper rising, circled it, pushed it about a bit, began to take liberties with it, settled in with it, called for a cup of tea next to it, and finally began disassembling it.
She said she was too old to walk around her garden with him, but he should pick a leaf of any plant that interested him and they could discuss it over a cup of tea.
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And all of a sudden, the levees start collapsing and all of the water just backs into the city and fills it up like a cup of tea.
Instead of indulging, she carried around a cup of hot liquid, be it coffee, tea or chicken broth.
"When I got a call from Lex to invite me in the back door he said he didn't think it was my cup of tea - which was a strange comment, " added Jefferies.
He wants us to inhabit the ordinariness of life, which is sometimes visionary (the Constable sketch), sometimes banal (the cup of tea, the Old Spice), and sometimes momentous (the death of a parent), but all of it perforce ordinary because it happens in the course of a life, and happens, in different forms, to everyone.
Change either breaks into your life, or you open the door and invite it to sit down and have a cup of tea.
Siwa is less about rushing around any major sights than it is about sitting back with a cup of tea or a sheesha and letting the halcyon days wash over you.
As we know, it is always hard to find a good cup of tea stateside.
It might not be your cup of tea, but it's well-brewed and worth taking a sip if you're in that end of the market.
Obviously if it were her own it would have come out looking like a fine china tea cup and smelling of spring's early blooms.
Cardinals guard Russ Smith, the tournament's leading scorer and odds-on favorite for Most Outstanding Player, is a loyal customer of Waffle House where, he says, he likes to order a waffle, scrambled eggs with cheese, grits with sugar, two sausages and either "hot tea with three creams" or, if it's Sunday, a cup of coffee.
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It was also once thought to cure toothache and be a sleep aid if taken as a cup of tea.
However it does annoy me that when people stand around talking or spend a lot time making a cup of tea, they don't have to clock out.
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