“Sipping once, sipping twice, sipping chicken soup with rice.”

“"Did you ever taste beer?" "I had a sip of it once," said the small servant. "Here's a state of things!" cried Mr Swiveller, raising his eyes to the ceiling. "She never tasted it — it can't be tasted in a sip!"”

“Never bummy; sip rummy, get money”

“I'm sipping on an oxygen cocktail with an ambulance chaser.”

“I haven't had a sip of alcohol since 1986.”

“The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower.”

“I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific.”

“The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.”

“One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.”

“Mynheer Vandunck, though he never was drunk,
Sipped brandy and water gayly.”