"Bottled" Quotes from Famous Books
... magnificently throughout, was very much done at the close, and leant over his oar with a swimming in his head, and an approach to faintness, and was scarcely able to see for a minute or so. Miller's indignation knew no bounds, but he bottled it up till he had manoeuvered the crew into their dressing-room by themselves, Jervis having stopped below. Then he did not spare them. "They would kill their captain, whose little finger was worth the ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Tom Brown at Oxford • Thomas Hughes
... said Smithers; "'tain't in my way at all. If it was my officers wanted a stone jar of rack or a dozen of bottled ale, I might manage 'em, but I'm ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Trapped by Malays - A Tale of Bayonet and Kris • George Manville Fenn
... any modern essayist. If our holiday mechanic rules the roast among his fellows, he is no less at home in his new character of an ass, 'with amiable cheeks, and fair large ears'. He instinctively acquires a most learned taste, and grows fastidious in the choice of dried peas and bottled hay. He is quite familiar with his new attendants, and assigns them their parts with all due gravity. 'Monsieur Cobweb, good Monsieur, get your weapon in your hand, and kill me a red-hipt humble-bee on the top of a thistle, and, good Monsieur, bring me the honey-bag.' ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Characters of Shakespeare's Plays • William Hazlitt
... supplied him with all necessary information. Now the news was about that IV. B was going to sit with the Sixth Form for exams. Terror reigned. There could be no cribbing under the Chief's nose. Jeffries was in the same plight; but he was a philosopher. "If I get bottled in every paper," he said, "it will only mean about two hours' work on each subject. But if I am going to know enough to avoid being bottled, it will mean a good eight hours' work at each subject: six hours ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Loom of Youth • Alec Waugh
... lying flat on one's stomach, and taking a suck out of a flask. But in England in any dining car one actually sees a waiter approach a person dining and say, "Beer, sir, or wine?" This is done in broad daylight with no apparent sense of criminality or moral shame. Appalling though it sounds, bottled ale is openly sold on the trains at twenty-five cents a bottle and dry sherry at eighteen cents ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — My Discovery of England • Stephen Leacock
... a man could whistle there were ructions and denials, Shouts and countershouts of anger—quite a House of Commons scene; While the Colonel, who had bottled all his wrath, poured out the vials On the heads of Irish gentlemen whose ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Punch, Vol. 99., July 26, 1890. • Various
... be dressed either in a bechamel sauce, or with butter and lemon-juice. It is gently stewed, first of all, and it requires pepper and salt. The sauces can be varied with tomato, or with some of the good English bottled ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Belgian Cookbook • various various
... first generation was not interested in the manufactures that were the dynamo that generated the ferment of their lives. They had first to state the emotions of the mountains and the sea and of ancient heroic stories that had been bottled up in their race during centuries of inexpressiveness. For another generation perhaps the symbols will be the cluck of oiled cogs, the whirring of looms, the dragon forms of smoke spewed out of tall chimneys, and the substance will be the painful struggle for freedom, for sunnier, richer life ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Rosinante to the Road Again • John Dos Passos
... extraordinary that a myth like the Melanesian should occur in Brazil. There was endless day till some one married a girl whose father "the great serpent," was the owner of night. The father sent night bottled up in a gourd. The gourd was not to be uncorked till the messengers reached the bride, but they, in their curiosity, opened the gourd, and let night ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Myth, Ritual, and Religion, Vol. 1 • Andrew Lang
... he was broad-faced, broad-shouldered, well-freckled, pug-nosed; but if not very handsome he was remarkably good-humoured. As soon as the chests and hammocks were on the deck, he told them that when he could get the anchor up and make sail, he would give them some bottled porter. Jack proposed that he should get the porter up, and they would drink it while he got the anchor up, ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Mr. Midshipman Easy • Captain Frederick Marryat
... addicted to cock feathers and horsetails on his helmet, to bits of yellow and blue let into his clothes, to tufts of red and green hung on him in unexpected and unaccountable spots. Either the design of bottled Italian chianti is modeled after the Italian officer or the Italian officer is modeled after the bottle of chianti—which, though, I am not prepared to say without ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Europe Revised • Irvin S. Cobb
... some reported light words of Mr. Motley about Mr. Linden's care of his wife, and especial distrust of the gentlemen who had asked her to ride, reached Mr. Middleton's ear in a very exaggerated and opprobrious form. Mr. Middleton did not know Mr. Linden, nor know much of him; his bottled-up wrath resolved that Mr. Linden should not continue long in his reciprocal ignorance. And so it fell out, that as this week began with showing Mr. Linden something of Faith that he had not seen before, it did not end without giving her a new ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Say and Seal, Volume II • Susan Warner
... you, boys," says he, "that Nicaragua slapped an import duty of 48 per cent. ad valorem on all bottled goods last month. The President took a bottle of Cincinnati hair tonic by mistake for tobasco sauce, and he's getting even. Barrelled goods ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Trimmed Lamp and Others • O Henry
... dried in the sun, or in a brick-oven after the bread is taken out. A small quantity of the syrup should be occasionally sprinkled over them whilst drying; after which, pack them down in jars, sprinkling each layer with powdered sugar. The syrup is afterwards concentrated and bottled for use. They retain surprisingly their flavor, which is agreeable and somewhat similar to the best figs. Ordinary brown sugar may be used, a large portion of which ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers • Elizabeth E. Lea
... said Abel. 'It's your own proposal, Hollins. Suppose it's evil to swear: isn't it better I should express it, and be done with it, than keep it bottled up, to ferment in my mind? Oh, you're a precious, consistent old ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 9, No. 52, February, 1862 • Various
... in a dress suit, identical with that of the others. I was cordially greeted by a guest, who said, "Let me introduce you to our American minister to Ijiji and Zanzibar," and he presented me to the tall negro, who was turning out some bottled "cocktail." I shook hands with him, and he laughed, showing a set of teeth like an elephant's tusks, and asked me "what I would have." He was a servant dealing out "appetizers," and this was an American joke. The perpetrator of this joke was a minor official in the State Department, ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — As A Chinaman Saw Us - Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home • Anonymous
... Mr. Pickwick, as the gentleman residing on Clapham Green—not yet Common—"who lost the use of his limbs from imprudently taking cold after port wine, who could not be moved in consequence of acute suffering, and who had the water from the King's Bath bottled at 103 degrees, and sent by waggon to his bedroom in Town; when he bathed, sneezed, and same day recovered." This is grotesque enough and farcical, but without much meaning. On another occasion we are told that Tupman was ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Pickwickian Manners and Customs • Percy Fitzgerald
... be the death of me," she laughed, the tears running down her cheeks. "I can't stand being bottled ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Paradise Garden - The Satirical Narrative of a Great Experiment • George Gibbs
... places of diversion there is usually a sort of inn, or house of entertainment, with a bower or arbour, in which are sold all sorts of English liquors, such as cider, mead, bottled beer, and Spanish wines. Here the rooks meet every evening to drink, smoke, and to try their skill upon each other, or, in other words, to endeavour to trick one another out of the winnings of the day. These rooks are, properly speaking, what we call capons ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Marguerite de Navarre - Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois Queen of Navarre • Marguerite de Navarre
... oil is from Leghorn, and is sent in flasks surrounded by rush-work. Gallipoli oil is transported in casks, and Lucca in jars. The pickling olives are the unripe fruits deprived of a portion of their bitterness by soaking in water in which lime and wood ashes are sometimes added, and then bottled in salt and ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture • William Saunders
... same time carrying away our awning. For eight mortal hours did we struggle on, shivering like half-drowned rats, and occasionally taking a turn at the paddles to keep life within us. Cooking was naturally out of the question, and our only food that day consisted of a captain's biscuit, some bottled beer, and a tin of preserved plum pudding! Our progress through the water was not made the more rapid by the fact that two of our crew had to be kept constantly at work baling the water out of the wretched old tub, whose creaks and groans were dismal to ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — On the Equator • Harry de Windt
... torpidity of the liver, and he selected compounds recommended by the pharmacopoeia as the remedies which he would sell to the public. One he called "Perkins' Hair Vigor," and the other "Perkins' Liver Regulator." Procuring a large number of fancy bottles and gaudy labels, he bottled the medicines and advertised them extensively, with certificates of imaginary cures, which were written out for him by a friend whose liver was active and whose hair ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Elbow-Room - A Novel Without a Plot • Charles Heber Clark (AKA Max Adeler)
... really tattered foully The vestments of Archbishop Howley No button could I late discern on The garments of Archbishop Vernon, And never had his fingers mercy Upon the garb of Bishop Percy. The buttons fly from Bishop Ryder Like corks that spring from bottled cyder,—" ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay • George Otto Trevelyan
... polishing it receives from the farmer and the dealer, loses nearly half its bulk? A necessary part of the grain is lost. No wonder that sensible people in Japan and the West demand the grey unpolished rice. In Japan some enterprising person has started selling bottled stuff made from the part of the rice grain that is rubbed off in the polishing process. It does not look appetising. An easier thing would be to leave some of the coating on the rice. One thinks of what Smollett ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Foundations of Japan • J.W. Robertson Scott
... of his greatness, of the glory that now struck him as rarely comical; he hoped he hadn't taken it too seriously then, in the flush of his youth. Maybe, after all, he had been a, big-headed boy, but he must have bottled up his conceit tightly enough, or the other boys would have detected it and abhorred him. He was inclined to believe that he had not been very much set up by the pomp they made for him. At all events, that day at Winter Harbor had been beautiful, ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Gentleman From Indiana • Booth Tarkington
... it was before or after—doesn't matter. Anyhow, it was bottled wine. The third time he brought a mason, and I am sure they quarreled. I heard their voices. He carried off the key, and I have seen neither him nor his wine again. I have another key, and I went down one ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Celebrated Crimes, Complete • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... alcohol, the white of 10 eggs well beaten, hops 2 ounces, yeast one quart. The ginger root and hops should be boiled for 20 or 30 minutes in enough of the water to make all milk warm; then strain into the rest, and the yeast added and allowed to work itself clear as the cider and bottled. ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets • Daniel Young
... drug-doctor, would not be recognized by any medical association in the spheres. Would give any information about the fixed stars. The inhabitants of the Milky Way telegraphed to each other by means of the Detached Vitalized Electricity. Also, they bottled up the same to cure humors. Would privately impart their recipe to Mr. Stellato. It could not be afforded upon this earth at less than three dollars a bottle. Would, however, authorize an exception in favor of clergymen, ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 • Various
... But there was a subtle change in Pierre's patient voice and clear, unhappy eyes, so that the girl fell to humming and bottled up her curiosity. But just as soon as he began to brood again she gave up her whole mind to staring at him. Gee! He was brown and strong and thin! And a good-looker! She wished that she had worn her ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Branding Iron • Katharine Newlin Burt
... got up early, and took a lounge about Saratoga. The nominal attraction to this place is its water, which is much in vogue, and may be procured all over the States, being bottled and sold under the name of Congress water; as in all such places however, pleasure, not health, is the end pursued by the ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Impressions of America - During the years 1833, 1834 and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume I. • Tyrone Power
... "Sixty gallons—bottled, most of it. Two kegs in bulk." Young Kenner was proceeding stoically with the unloading. Casey, his mouth clamped tight shut, was glaring stupifiedly ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Trail of the White Mule • B. M. Bower
... of August, they imposed upon no living creature, and they obtained not the smallest credit for humanity. They endeavored to establish a distinction, by the belief of which they hoped to keep the spirit of murder safely bottled up and sealed for their own purposes, without endangering themselves by the fumes of the poison which they ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. V. (of 12) • Edmund Burke
... be indicative of an inquisitive nature. Jimmy's stood out like the handles on a loving-cup. With all this explosive material bottled up in him, he felt like a torpedo-boat deprived ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Sandy • Alice Hegan Rice
... had lost the Confederate Army their chance of victory. The Union command had not been safely bottled up at Spring Hill. Through the night hours Schofield's army had marched along the turnpike, within gunshot of the gray troops, close enough for Hood's pickets to hear the talk of the retreating men. Now they must be pursued toward Franklin. The Army of ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Ride Proud, Rebel! • Andre Alice Norton
... do you need so much? 3. Which of these foods come from animals? Which from plants? Which of them are the best "to grow on"? 4. How much milk is there in the two bottles in the picture on p. 23? What is the difference between milk and cream? Why is it better to buy bottled milk than milk dipped out of a can? 5. Suppose that you are going to get the breakfast in this house; how will you use some of the milk in preparing it? How will you take care of what is left? 6. Why is milk much better for you than coffee or tea? Where does the food strength in the milk come ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Child's Day • Woods Hutchinson
... began. "Victor Chauvet was an old Frenchman—born in the south of France. He came to California in the days of gold. He was a pioneer. He found no gold, but, instead, became a maker of bottled sunshine—in short, a grape-grower and wine-maker. Also, he followed gold excitements. That is what brought him to Alaska in the early days, and over the Chilcoot and down the Yukon long before the Carmack strike. The old town site of Ten Mile was Chauvet's. ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Lost Face • Jack London
... boil before using. The nipple should be turned inside out, scrubbed with a brush, using hot borax water. The brush should be used for no other purpose. The bottle and nipple should rest in plain boiled water until wanted. Never use grocery milk. Use only bottled milk which is delivered every morning. From May 1st to October 1st the milk should be boiled five minutes immediately after receiving. Children of the same age vary greatly as to the strength and amount of food required. A mixture, when prepared, should be put in a covered ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) - A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies • W. Grant Hague
... once before, that we had him bottled up safely," chuckled Lieutenant Jack. "Mr. Abercrombie, how am I ever going to express ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Submarine Boys for the Flag - Deeding Their Lives to Uncle Sam • Victor G. Durham
... through wool and linen and silk, intimately, until three baths a day had become a welcome routine, providing it was possible to obtain water. Water. Her tongue ran across her lips. Oh, for a drink from the old cold pure spring at home! Tea, coffee, and bottled soda; nothing that ever touched the thirsty spots ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Parrot & Co. • Harold MacGrath
... world; but I will assure you, that I should have drank it with more pleasure, had you been here to have partook of it. In the cellars of one wine-merchant, I was conducted through long passages more like streets than caves; on each side of which, bottled Champaigne was piled up some feet higher than my head, and at least twelve deep. I bought two bottles to taste, of that which the merchant assured me was each of the best sort he had, and for which I paid him six livres: if he ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — A Year's Journey through France and Part of Spain, 1777 - Volume 1 (of 2) • Philip Thicknesse
... it's Poland water," said Percy, firmly. "The one drawback about this island is that the only spring's brackish. If you've any good bottled water I'll be glad to drink with you, ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Jim Spurling, Fisherman - or Making Good • Albert Walter Tolman
... bhoys, there was the fun! But the game was far from done. United Ireland did not yet appear; For whilst NAGLE had stepped out, BODKIN came wid comrades stout, And a hamper, which was packed with bottled beer. PARNELL swore an awful oath He'd have law agin 'em both, And he came from KENNY's house in Rutland Square; And he raised a Phillaloo With the aid of followers true, And replaced the valiant LEAMY in ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99., Dec. 20, 1890 • Various
... to Madden to see Caradoc smash and destroy such delicate and costly machinery. He went about his task with a kind of bottled ferocity, and in a short time the submarine looked as if it had let loose a cyclone. Presently the youth paused in his vandalism and ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Cruise of the Dry Dock • T. S. Stribling
... Now, had Flinders bottled up his indignation and swallowed his pride—had he frankly recognised that he was in Decaen's power—had he acknowledged that some deference was due to the official head of the colony of a foreign ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders • Ernest Scott
... out between the players; they were reviling one another in no measured language, and their terms of abuse culminated in the term "strike-breaker." This made them perfectly furious. It was as though an abscess had broken; all their bottled-up shame and anger concerning their infamous position burst forth. They began to use knives and tools on one another. The police, who kept watch on the factory day and night, were called in, and restored tranquillity. A wounded smith ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo
... houses, where you can always get good society; to rivers which will always fish, brimfull in the longest droughts of summer, instead of being, as those mountain ones are, very like a turnpike-road for three weeks, and then like bottled porter for three days; to streams on which you have strong south-west breezes for a week together on a clear fishing water, instead of having, as on those mountain ones, foul rain spate as long as the wind is south-west, and clearing water when the wind chops up to the north, and the ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Prose Idylls • Charles Kingsley
... one so great that from the beginning of time to the present day no sage or poet has ever grasped it in its full extent, and yet is is a very literal truth, that there lie hidden within us all, as in a sealed-up spiritual casket, or like the bottled-up djinn in the Arab tale, innumerable Powers or Intelligences, some capable of bestowing peace or calm, others of giving Happiness, or inspiring creative genius, energy and perseverance. All that Man has ever attributed ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Mystic Will • Charles Godfrey Leland
... no beauty. A strong, ugly man, he was well adapted for manual labour; and that was all. His eyes were made to see with, and not for ogling. Compared with the Cockney, he was grave, and rather taciturn; but there was a deal of good old humour bottled up in him, after all. For the rest, he was frank, good-hearted, shrewd, and resolute; and ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas • Herman Melville
... Taylor and Charles Lamb had been O'er bottled porter and the Fairy Queen! In youth, one day, seeking forbidden fruit Tom tumbled from the branches with his loot, And broken bones compelled the lad to go On straddling crutches, warily and slow, ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland • Daniel Turner Holmes
... keep The sod turn'd in a gyre's urn That no lost soul can undulate: Hence seers and sages, tossed in sin, Rant rubics to each reigning king, Each glowing pyre is fed with oil By afreets reared on bottled hate; Infernal tapers light this Inn As poisoned vapours to us cling; Re-embered beacons on this soil Flare spastic shadows to ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Betelguese - A Trip Through Hell • Jean Louis de Esque
... we are obliged to," said the Bacteriologist. "Here, for instance—" He walked across the room and took up one of several sealed tubes. "Here is the living thing. This is a cultivation of the actual living disease bacteria." He hesitated, "Bottled ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents • H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
... itinerant saloon at Council Bluffs. In the first place, the building, perched up as it was in the air, had exposed a multitude of openings in the floor through which the wind whistled. In the second place, the bar was empty; there was no bottled fire-water with which we could warm ourselves and forget our misery. We had no blankets, and in our wet clothes, wet to the skin, we tried to sleep. I rolled under the bar, and the Swede rolled under the table. ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Road • Jack London
... the door of one of the inns. Some friendly bird must have told her of my thirst and weariness—perhaps the merry little quail that I heard as I came up from the plain crying 'To-whit! To-whit!' That blessed auberge actually contained bottled beer. And the room was so cool that butter would not have melted in it. These southern houses have such thick stone walls that they have the double advantage of being warm in winter and delightfully cool in summer. I had some difficulty in resisting ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine • Edward Harrison Barker
... awoke to the realization that his wife was an asset he had hitherto utterly neglected. Inconceivable though it were (a middle-of-the-night reflection), if he insisted on trying to keep such a woman bottled up in Rivington she might some day pack up and leave him. One never could tell what a woman would do in ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... 'ouse you're 'unting, you must always work in pairs— It 'alves the gain, but safer you will find— For a single man gets bottled on them twisty-wisty stairs, An' a woman comes ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling
... the ruin of the place, he imported—it was the lady's idea, originally—the far-famed "Red-and-Blue" brand of whisky in barrels. The liquid was bottled in the cellars of the Residency. What happened during that process was never revealed. It was affirmed, none the less, that one barrel of the original stuff was more than enough for three barrelfuls of the bottled ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — South Wind • Norman Douglas
... don't teach me. I am sure the Reverend Father is not angry with me. What if I have spoken plainly. It would have been worse had I bottled up ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Light Shines in Darkness • Leo Tolstoy
... said the professor, as I mentioned my thirst; "take the bottled water if you mean to stay a ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — In Search of the Unknown • Robert W. Chambers
... or, Practical Hints on the Purchase and Management of Foreign Wines, their History, and a complete catalogue of all those in present use, together with remarks upon the treatment of Spirits, Bottled Beer, and Cider. To which is appended Instructions for the Cellar, and other information valuable to the Consumer as well as the Dealer. By FREDERICK ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children • W. Houghton
... programme; his attention centred on a corner of the room, where Elsie Mayhew—an incarnate moonbeam of a girl—was critically examining the pattern on her fan, while Maurice possessed himself of her programme, and sprinkled it liberally with the letter M. In the boy's bottled-up resentment Lenox saw a reflection of his own; and the fact moved him to scorn ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Great Amulet • Maud Diver
... not to break the bloomin' glass, Though the Arabites 'ad all their ranges marked; But we dursn't 'ardly gallop, for the most was bottled Bass, An' we'd dreamed of it since we was disembarked: So we fired economic with the shells we 'ad in 'and, ('Orse Gunners, listen to my song!) But the beggars under cover 'ad the impidence to stand, An' we couldn't keep 'em waitin' very long. And ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Verses 1889-1896 • Rudyard Kipling
... the end of the volume the poet repeats his dedication (III, xxix). Twice he invites his patron to a feast; to drink wine bottled on the day some years before when entering the theatre after an illness he was received with cheers by the assembled multitude (I, xx); again on March 1st, kept as the festal anniversary of his own escape from a falling tree (III, viii). To a querulous letter from his friend ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Horace • William Tuckwell
... later the two were seated in Denny's own particular room, where Gerald washed the dust from his throat with some capital bottled beer, while his host paid attention to a large demijohn which contained, as he informed the journalist in an impressive whisper, "close on to a gallon of ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Stories of Modern French Novels • Julian Hawthorne
... clouded. They had been filling the plates and glasses of these two ladies all the way from Calcutta; they had walked with them every day on deck, had fetched their chairs, picked up their handkerchiefs, and looked after their bottled beer at tiffin-time with an assiduity which is more than commendable in such warm latitudes. And now to be thrown on one side for two travelling Englishmen, one in a brown coat and the other in a black one—for ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Bertrams • Anthony Trollope
... of the war. They were safe from invasion, because their fleet absolutely controlled the Yellow Sea after the battle of Tsushima, and there weren't any more Russian battleships to bother them. They had bottled up the Russian force in Port Arthur, and they were in the position of having everything to gain and very little to lose. Their line ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Boy Scout Automobilists - or, Jack Danby in the Woods • Robert Maitland
... 'first case,' it bid fair to be so marked in his memory. Perhaps he forgot the coffee-cup, till Mr. Falkirk gently relieved him of it with a word of dismission, and the doctor modestly withdrew; then sending Mrs. Saddler for some bottled ale, Mr. Falkirk went on, ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Wych Hazel • Susan and Anna Warner
... along the street. There was a man standing at a gate near the corner. As we approached he said to me, 'Sergeant, can you get me a drink of whisky?' I said, 'That is rather a strange thing to ask a Sergeant of Police,' 'Well,' he said, 'I have plenty of bottled ale in my home, but it sticks in my throat.' I said, 'Do you take whisky when you are thirsty?' 'Yes,' he replied. I got into conversation with him and after a while I said to him, 'Do you ever go to a place of worship?' 'No,' he said, 'I don't, I pay a sovereign for a sitting.' 'That won't ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Personal Touch • J. Wilbur Chapman
... bottled yeast this evening and liable to go off, I thank my stars I have three old babies at home to whom I am bound to tell everything. So lizzen, lizzen for all! Know ye then, all men (and women) by these presents that there is a gentleman in London who predicts wonderful things for Glory. His ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Christian - A Story • Hall Caine
... picnic she spread out upon the sofa! How capital was the cold beef and pickles, the gruyere cheese, the bottled beer! How they laughed and enjoyed themselves, always with due consideration not to disturb the sleepers above. How Everett, with the audacity born of the swing back of the pendulum, seized upon ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Argosy - Vol. 51, No. 3, March, 1891 • Various
... it is perfectly clear; add a tablespoonful of good brandy to each pint of ketchup, and let it stand as before; a fresh sediment will be deposited, from which the ketchup is to be quietly poured off and bottled in pints or half pints (which have been washed in brandy or spirits). It is best to keep it in such quantities ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — A Poetical Cook-Book • Maria J. Moss
... Heneage-Lefevre-O'Shea compromise. But I went all the same, for I was not supposed to know what he had written to Mr. Gladstone. The first matter discussed was the Budget. I opposed the proposed increase of the wine duties from 1s. to 1s. 3d., and from 2s. 6d. to 3s. (all bottled wine to be at the 3s. rate). I carried with me at first all except Mr. Gladstone against Childers, and at last Mr. Gladstone also. Childers then left the room; Mr. Gladstone, Lord Granville, Harcourt, and the Chancellor, ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Vol. 2 • Stephen Gwynn
... For the Well Zemzem and the Place of Abraham see my Pilgrimage (iii. 171-175, etc.), where I described the water as of salt-bitter taste, like that of Epsom (iii. 203). Sir William Muir (in his excellent life of Mahomet, I. cclviii.) remarks that "the flavour of stale water bottled up for months would not be a criterion of the same water freshly drawn;" but soldered tins-full of water drawn a fortnight before are to be had in Calcutta and elsewhere after Pilgrimage time; and analysis would at once ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 2 • Richard F. Burton
... citizen, or was offensively rude to any citizen, or who refused to pay a fair reckoning for what he bought, or who was conspicuously drunk. The postcard venders of Louvain must have grown fat with wealth; for, next to bottled beer and butter and cheap cigars, every common soldier craved postcards ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Paths of Glory - Impressions of War Written At and Near the Front • Irvin S. Cobb
... man," he said, with his broad good-humoured grin, "that theer 'summat' you knocked against must have been moving round you pretty smart! Bless me, if it ain't fetched you one on your booby hatch and another on the conk, and bottled up your peepers as well! What's ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Young Tom Bowling - The Boys of the British Navy • J.C. Hutcheson
... presumably, that Gypsy Nan used on her face and hands. There was a bunch of curiously formed keys, several boxes of revolver cartridges, an electric flashlight, and a great quantity of the choicest brands of tinned and bottled fruits and provisions—and a little to one side, evidently kept ready for instant use, a suit of excellent material, underclothing, silk stockings shoes and hat were neatly ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The White Moll • Frank L. Packard
... reached its full strength of 100,000 men, the question of interest was whether the promised proposals would render that force unnecessary. Mr. Austen Chamberlain asked why the Government's proposals should be kept bottled up until a date suspiciously near All Fools' Day; and Sir Edward Carson, in one of the most impressive speeches he ever made in Parliament, which wrung from Mr. Lloyd George the acknowledgment that it had "entranced the House," joined Chamberlain in demanding that the country ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Ulster's Stand For Union • Ronald McNeill
... choice between Brest, where Cornwallis was keeping guard, with Boulogne beyond, and where Napoleon was watching eagerly for the white topsails of his fleet; or Cadiz, where Collingwood with a tiny squadron held the Spanish fleet strictly bottled up. ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Deeds that Won the Empire - Historic Battle Scenes • W. H. Fitchett
... failed to accomplish the work given him to do. Instead of taking Petersburg, destroying the railroads connecting Richmond with the south, and laying siege to that city, he had, after some ineffectual manoeuvring, got his army hemmed in, "bottled up," Grant called it, at Bermuda Hundred, where he was almost completely out of the offensive movement for months. Sigel had been worsted in the North, and had been relieved by Hunter, who had won measurable success ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Ulysses S. Grant • Walter Allen
... art weary, so drink of this and rest a while," and the Mime drew forth his bottled broth. "It will give thee new courage." But Siegfried, filled with loathing for the little man, felled him with a single stroke of his sword. Thus the Mime was slain, as Wotan had said, by one ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Operas Every Child Should Know - Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces • Mary Schell Hoke Bacon
... to his friends, to his wife, obliging, kind, And so averse from a revengeful mind, That had his men unsealed his bottled wine, He would not fret, ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — In Praise of Folly - Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts • Desiderius Erasmus
... wine, cider, &c. and were told "they had already taken all that was on board." But not satisfied they proceeded to search the state rooms and forcastle, ripped up the floor of the later and found some boxes of bottled cider, which they carried to their vessel, gave three cheers, in an exulting manner to me, and then began drinking it with such freedom, that a violent quarrel arose between officers and men, which came very near ending in ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Pirates Own Book • Charles Ellms
... skill found a way to increase the applied strength of a streamlet. Against the outer wall of the Mill now hung a turbine and Raymond, Estelle and others had assembled to see it in operation for the first time. Bride was bottled here, and instead of flashing and foaming over the water wheel as of yore, now vanished into the turbine and presently appeared ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Spinners • Eden Phillpotts
... storehouse of the air I passed Where choice of every weather treasured lies: Here, rain is bottled up; there, hail is cast In candied heaps: here, banks of snow do rise; There, furnaces of lightning burn, and those Long-bearded stars which ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete • George Gilfillan
... authorities give the following figures: (a) 20,000 roses to make 1 rupee's weight (176 gr.) of otto; (b) 200,000 to make the same weight; (c) 1,000 roses afford less than 2 gr. of otto. The color ranges from green to bright-amber, and reddish. The oil (otto) is the most carefully bottled; the receptacles are hermetically sealed with wax, and exposed to the full glare of the sun for several days. Rose water deprived of otto is esteemed much inferior to that which has not been so treated. ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Scientific American Supplement No. 275 • Various
... had taken on her passengers when we returned, and we put off from the sea-wall at once, with two barrels of bottled beer, and half a dozen demi-johns of wine prominent on the small deck. Often the sea between Tahiti and Moorea is rough in the daytime, and passage is made at night to avoid accident, but we were given a smooth way, and could enjoy the music. We sat or lay ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Mystic Isles of the South Seas. • Frederick O'Brien
... doan't; the' luk wuss then thet; they'm bottled up thunder an' lightnin', an' ef the' cum down har, they'll chaw ye ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various
... of baby's bottled meals is taken from the ice box and carefully dipped in and out of a deep cup of hot water. A very convenient receptacle is a deep, quart aluminum cup, which may be readily carried about. The hot water in the cup should amply cover the milk in the ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Mother and Her Child • William S. Sadler
... said!' said the true Mr. Clark. 'You forget that I have been bottled up on the hill-side yonder for the last ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Leading Articles on Various Subjects • Hugh Miller
... no heed to him—she was determined to be heard, determined to have her say. All the bitterness in her had been bottled up for weeks. She meant to meet Andor face to face before she was packed off as the submissive wife of a hated husband—the naughty child, whipped and sent out of the way—she meant to throw all the pent-up bitterness within her, straight into ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — A Bride of the Plains • Baroness Emmuska Orczy
... very true,' he said; 'Darsie was a pleasant companion-but over waggish, over waggish, Alan, and somewhat scatter-brained.—By the way, Wilkinson must get our ale bottled in English pints now, for a quart bottle is too much, night after night, for you and me, without his assistance.—But Darsie, as I was saying, is an arch lad, and somewhat light in the upper story—I wish him ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Redgauntlet • Sir Walter Scott
... know several Smiths in Kent. You're likely one on 'em. Well, I must shake 'ands with you for the sake of Carrot Bill." He reached across the table and grasped Harry's hand in a hearty shake. Thereupon we drank a health to Carrot Bill in bottled beer; and this was followed by a toast to Mrs. Handsomebody, which ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Explorers of the Dawn • Mazo de la Roche
... taste the quantity required reduces the degree to which the sugar has been boiled so much that it works like putty, and sticks to the machine while being pressed through; the drops when finished look dull, dragged and stick together when bottled; tons of drops are weekly spoiled by small makers using such flavors, while a little trouble and less expense would put them out of their misery, besides giving to the goods that clear bright dry appearance to be found in the ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Candy Maker's Guide - A Collection of Choice Recipes for Sugar Boiling • Fletcher Manufacturing Company
... adjacent coasts were being blockaded, so no ships could pass in or out without running the risk of capture; and a large fleet of war-ships under Admiral Cervera, of the enemy's navy, had been "bottled up" ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — American Boy's Life of Theodore Roosevelt • Edward Stratemeyer
... told nobody," she went on wildly; "all these years I've kept it bottled up in my soul 'til it's eat it plumb out. I never done it to Chick! He wasn't Chick then. He was just somethin' that belonged to a devil. Then he growed to be Chick, and all my hate turned to love, and now God's gittin' even, I knowed He would! He wouldn't let him live now, ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill • Alice Hegan Rice
... grub they require in any hour of the twenty-four; our wagon lines moved forward behind the Ridge to a place of perfect security; several army corps were released for service in other parts of the lines, and the city of Lens, honeycombed with German soldiers, is practically bottled up, they not daring to retreat, and it being impossible for them to advance. But the over-weaning advantage of this movement and the reduction of this obstacle is the tremendous impetus that will be given our forces when the waves of the great drive that is in contemplation sweep the gray-clad ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — S.O.S. Stand to! • Reginald Grant
... pass for scorn,—and even the witty will not be enabled to point out the difference, without running the risk of being considered invidious. It will cover every defect with a defect still greater; for who can call small beer tasteless when it is sour, or dull when it is bottled and has a froth ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Olla Podrida • Frederick Marryat (AKA Captain Marryat)
... rejoined Bob, "lunch is the very thing. Hallo, you sir! Lunch for three, directly, and keep the horses back for a quarter of an hour. Tell them to put everything they have cold, on the table, and some bottled ale, and let us taste your very best Madeira." Issuing these orders with monstrous importance and bustle, Mr. Bob Sawyer at once hurried into the house to superintend the arrangements; in less than five minutes he returned and declared ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Inns and Taverns of "Pickwick" - With Some Observations on their Other Associations • B.W. Matz
... any more, nor did she understand half of what she had heard. The two friends walked on, and thus she escaped the fate of being bottled up in spirits. ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen • Hans Christian Andersen
... particular and peculiar reputation. By luck of birth possessed of a genial but soft disposition and a splendid constitution, his reputation was that for twenty years he had never missed his day's work nor his six daily quarts of bottled beer, even, as he bragged, when in the German islands, where each bottle of beer carried ten grains of quinine in solution as ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Michael, Brother of Jerry • Jack London
... process, carried on in a small way on the farm or more extensively in the commercial "quick process." From apple cider many different products are obtained, chief of these being vinegar and others being bottled cider, boiled cider, apple butter and, more recently, concentrated cider and cider syrup. This discussion will consider only the manufacture ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 • Various
... many places, and I've heard tell of a many ghostes," she said; "but never yet did I set eyes on one, which my opinion is that, if people will eat cold pork for supper underdone, not to mention crackling or seasoning, and bottled stout, which is worse, and lies still heavier on the stomach—unless you take about as much ground ginger as would lie on a sixpence, and as much carbonate of soda as would lie on a fourpenny-bit—and go to bed upon it all directly ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Run to Earth - A Novel • M. E. Braddon
... Numb with long sitting we dropped cumbrously to earth from the high footboard, and found ourselves face to face with the problem of how to spend the next three hours. It was eleven o'clock in the morning, too early for lunch, though, apparently, quite the fashionable hour in Letterbeg for bottled porter, judging by the squeak of the corkscrew and the clash of glasses that issued from the dark interior of the house in front of which we had been shed by the mail-car. This was a long cottage with a prosperous slate roof, and a board over its narrow door announcing that one ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — All on the Irish Shore - Irish Sketches • E. Somerville and Martin Ross
... waiting to beg a sovereign, having been just discharged from the Insolvent Court, for the second time. Among the women, a pretty actress, who, a few years since, looked forward to a supper of steak and onions, with bottled stout, on a Saturday night, as a great treat, now finds one hundred pounds a month insufficient to pay her wine merchant and her confectioner. I am obliged to deal with each case according to its peculiarities. Genuine undeserved Ruin seldom knocks at my ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Experiences of a Barrister, and Confessions of an Attorney • Samuel Warren
... genie, so transformed and then, ever so swiftly, run into a bottle;—it was surely the graceful seal firmly affixed thereto when she heard these words of conformity to the traditions of dignified betrothal. And for once in her life, so bottled and so sealed, she looked, as if through the magic crystal of her mother's words, absolutely, helplessly foolish. It is difficult for a genie in a bottle to look contrite or stricken with anything deeper than astonishment; nor is it practicable in such ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — A Fountain Sealed • Anne Douglas Sedgwick
... lungs for a great blast, and put the trumpet to his lips—but in vain; Andy had bottled his music for him. O'Grady, seeing the inflated cheeks and protruding eyes of the musician, whose visage was crimson with exertion, and yet no sound produced, thought the fellow was practising one of his jokes upon him, and became ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Handy Andy, Volume One - A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes • Samuel Lover
... would "do" for her. And on the days when she came home boozed she stammered that it was all through grief. But honest folks shrugged their shoulders. They knew what that meant: ascribing the effects of the peppery fire of l'Assommoir to grief, indeed! At all events, she ought to have called it bottled grief. No doubt at the beginning she couldn't digest Nana's flight. All the honest feelings remaining in her revolted at the thought, and besides, as a rule a mother doesn't like to have to think that her daughter, at that very moment, perhaps, is being familiarly ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — L'Assommoir • Emile Zola
... admitted that William J. Burns is Some Sleuth, but when it comes to apprehending and running to Earth a prattling American Ingenue with a few Millions stuffed in her Reticule, the Boy with the mildewed Title who sits on the Boulevard all day and dallies with the green and pink Bottled Goods has got it all over Burns like ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Knocking the Neighbors • George Ade
... can not comprehend a joke that is not accompanied by grimace and gesticulation; and so M. Taine chases Thackeray through sixty solid pages, berating him for what he is pleased to term "bottled hate." ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. 1 of 14 - Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great • Elbert Hubbard
... never have thought of it. There are lots of Shigalovs, but only one man, one man in Russia has hit on the first step and knows how to take it. And I am that man! Why do you look at me? I need you, you; without you I am nothing. Without you I am a fly, a bottled ...![](http://www.dictionaryone.com/rquot.gif) — The Possessed - or, The Devils • Fyodor Dostoyevsky |