Meaning of sippingly | Babel Free

Definitions

With sips.

Examples

“Because there is nothing sottish about you; and you throw⟳ down your wine like⟳ a man that wants to get⟳ a certain quantity down in order⟳ to drown⟳ care, and not like⟳ one who drinks it because he likes the taste⟳ of it,—that is, slowly and sippingly.”

“I have⟳ long observed, as I doubt⟳ not have⟳ many of you, that the condition here described is often alleviated in the most striking manner by the use⟳ of exclusively liquid nourishment—such as milk or milk-gruel, given in small portions sub-continuously, or sippingly, as it were, throughout the waking hours—the patient being never permitted to take⟳ a distinct meal, nor a particle of solid food.”

“He might ignore⟳ it for three months and then, one midnight, drink⟳ sippingly and methodically from a water glass, lying back on the cot an hour later with the world all closed down, nothing left of it but a terminal throbbing ache in his forebrain.”

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