Crossword-Solution: SIPPER 6 letters, 10 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Whether it was odd or not that the sipper should be oblivious, and the cordial spirit heartily reminiscent of those times, we will not stay to inquire.

There was nothing in his manner to indicate that he was there as anything more than the most casual sipper of the beverage that society brews.

Nameless though many of the cups and stars and odours of the flowers were to me, unfamiliar the little shapes that gamboled in fur and feather before my face, here dwelt, mummy of all earth's summers, some old ghost of me, sipper of sap, coucher in moss, quieter than dust.

Meanwhile a great black and white paper-hornet has seen his opportunity, and is soon slyly approaching behind the sipper.

This would insure its fertilization by the pollen on the insect's tongue; and even though the sipper _failed_ to reach the nectar, the pollen would be withdrawn upon the tongue, to be carried to other flowers, which might thus be expected to inherit from the paternal side the tendency to the _longer_ nectary.