Sentences with phrase «old stoup»

There is something dated, surely, about this talk of natures, and forms, and essences; our minds misgive us lest they should be a mere ornament, not a weapon of our thought, comparable to those brightly polished warming pans that hang, unused, on the walls of an old inn that has been «done up» - at best, like an old stoup now used for an ash tray.