brandy bottle
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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For authors, after squirming in a seat at the rear of the house or wandering backstage with a brandy bottle, it means keeping a death watch until 4 a.m., when the papers come out.
From Time Magazine Archive
Young Mrs. Raeburn is itching to tell her husband about her past and he is itching for the brandy bottle.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is an inkwell next to the lamp, a brass statue of an Egyptian deity, a clock, and the empty brandy bottle.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
He never stopped invoking every fetish under the sun, and sprinkling the sea out of a brandy bottle, keeping his eye the while on the waves as they came rolling in.
From Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville by Loyd, Lady Mary Sophia (Hely-Hutchinson)
Knowledge must not smell of the brandy bottle.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 by Various
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