1.   They drank hot sake from tiny porcelain cups, and Rachel felt light-headed from the potent Japanese alcohol.

2.   As a practical matter, pouring the scalding tea into the milk prevented cracking the fragile porcelain cups.

3.   Chawanmushi, with its bite-size morsels in a fish broth with eggs, traditionally is served in small lidded porcelain cups.

4.   In a porcelain cup there is a picture of Misty Truelove, another of his granddaughters, when she was an infant.

5.   It can be elegant, served in porcelain chocolate cups accompanied by a crystal bowl of whipped cream, waving its excess in peaks for all to see.

6.   The commander and his staff calmly set down their fine porcelain cups and moved with the grace of ballet dancers, behind trees and walls.

7.   The music of tea splashing into a porcelain cup has been known to soothe an Irish soul long before the amber liquid even touches the lips.

8.   Usually, an egg coddler is a porcelain cup with a metal screw-on lid, although sometimes it is made of pottery or glass.

9.   His office is packed with porcelain tea cups, traditional zithers, calligraphy and a hi-fi audio set on which he often plays Andrea Bocelli.