The wind had the burning taste of fresh snow; my throat and nostrils smarted as if someone had opened a hartshorn
bottle.
And he seated himself at the table; the waiter pulled a cork, and he took the
bottle and poured three glasses of its contents in succession down his throat.
Only one
bottle along- side of Injun Joe ain't enough.
The lion then composed himself on his back on a sofa on one side of the drinking-table, while the jackal sat at his own paper-bestrewn table proper, on the other side of it, with the
bottles and glasses ready to his hand.
Far in this den of infamous resort, there was a low-browed, beetling shop, below a pent-house roof, where iron, old rags,
bottles, bones, and greasy offal, were bought.
arrived before 'the half' was many weeks old; and with it a cake in a perfect nest of oranges, and two
bottles of cowslip wine.
Every Christmas Day he presented himself, as a profound novelty, with exactly the same words, and carrying the two
bottles like dumb-bells.
And when I say "drinking," I speak not of smuggled gin or of brandy
bottles held fiercely by the neck till they are empty.
She then gave two glass
bottles into the Princess's charge, desiring her to take the greatest care of them, and having enforced her orders with the most awful threats in case of disobedience, she vanished, leaving the little girl at liberty to explore the palace and grounds and a good deal relieved at having only two apparently easy tasks set her.
Grimaud understood that it was to be a breakfast on the grass, took the basket, packed up the viands, added the
bottles, and then took the basket on his arm.
Suddenly Musqueton uttered a cry of delight, taking from beneath one of the benches a
bottle of wine; and on looking more closely in the same place he discovered a dozen similar
bottles, bread, and a monster junk of salted beef.
I had just consummated an unusually hearty dinner, of which the dyspeptic truffe formed not the least important item, and was sitting alone in the dining-room, with my feet upon the fender, and at my elbow a small table which I had rolled up to the fire, and upon which were some apologies for dessert, with some miscellaneous
bottles of wine, spirit andliqueur.
For these occasions he kept a few
bottles of beer under the bed, and one of these and a pipe would help him to bear the burden of life.
There was no one in the anteroom; empty
bottles, cloaks, and overshoes were lying about; there was a smell of alcohol, and sounds of voices and shouting in the distance.
One whole shelf was marked: "Brain Furniture," and the
bottles on this shelf were labeled as follows: "Obedience," "Cleverness," "Judgment," "Courage," "Ingenuity," "Amiability," "Learning," "Truth," "Poesy," "Self Reliance.
