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"Wine bottle" Quotes from Famous Books

... sir," the mate answered. "Suppose we take one of those empty 30-gallon beer casks, and fill that up with powder—it will hold ten or twelve of the little barrels—and then we might bung it up, and make a hole in its head. Over the hole we might fix a wine bottle, with the bottom knocked out; and so fastened, with tow and oakum, that the water won't get in. Then we might shove down through the mouth of the bottle, and through the hole below it into the powder, a long strip of paper ...

— For Name and Fame - Or Through Afghan Passes • G. A. Henty

... she imagined herself heaving up in her chair with the port wine bottle in her hand as the Young Man entered ...

— In a German Pension • Katherine Mansfield

... what we can't say, and shall never know, for as Harry uttered the exclamation, his dear cousin flung a wine bottle at Mr. Warrington's head, who bobbed just in time, so that the missile flew across the room, and broke against the wainscot opposite, breaking the face of a pictured ancestor of the Esmond family, and then itself against the wall, whence it spirted a pint of good port wine over ...

— The Virginians • William Makepeace Thackeray

... so-called barracks, the plan of laying a mine and firing it when next the enemy made an attack was modified at Murray's suggestion into the preparing of some half-dozen shells, each composed of an ordinary wine bottle or decanter fully charged and rammed down with an easily prepared slow match such as would occur to any lad to contrive ready for lighting from a candle held prepared in the upper chamber, risk being a matter that was quite left ...

— Hunting the Skipper - The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop • George Manville Fenn

... the bottle till he saw the island; the island is the rising bottom of a wine bottle, which appears like an island in the centre, before the bottle is ...

— 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue • Captain Grose et al.