Elain sighed and filled two earthen cups with cider from a jug hanging among the rafters.

Next day the bridegroom's father sends a present of a bracelet and seven small earthen cups to the bride.

The lamp held animal fat in an earthen cup with a lit wick floating in it.

The stranger produced a small earthen cup from within his cloak, then a small packet made of some type of... paper, Christine reasoned.

This uncovering was, he suspected, a sign of respect, as was the earthen cup of precious water he bore.

He held the earthen cup in steady hands, his eyes not leaving Bran's face.

She sipped her tea regally from its earthen cup.

There she poured dark red wine into an earthen cup, almost brimming the edge.

There was steaming tea and hot sake in tiny earthen cups between them.

And in front of each of us was placed a small earthen cup, relics from Pourat's family in Isfahan.