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Definition:to have supper; to sip/drink
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One of his deputies was the governor of Santa Cruz, with whom I was to have dined; but staying so long at Laguna, I came but time enough to sup with him....There were about 200 muskets hung up against the walls, and some pikes; no wainscot, hangings, nor much furniture. There was only a small old table, a few old chairs, and 2 or 3 pretty long forms to sit on. Having supped with him I invited him on board, and went off in my boat.
William Dampier. A Voyage to New Holland, Etc. in the Year 1699
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We’d sit across the board from each other at supper, and I’d ask, ‘Will ye have a bit more o’ the cullen skink, my dear?’ or ‘A sup of ale, my own?’
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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the private rooms of restaurants, where one sups after midnight by the light of wax candles,
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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Massop: Let me, and let this dagger's point prick out his soft eyeball and sup with glee upon its exquisite jelly.
BBC. Blackadder, season 3: Sense and Senility
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‘Give me Hareton, while you get the supper, and when it is ready ask me to sup with you.
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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And after each figure was disposed of, it was as much as I could do to get a bite or a sup, before the next came; while he sat at his ease guessing nothing, and eating bacon and hot roll, in (if I may be allowed the expression) a gorging and gormandizing manner.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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