brandy bottle

British  

noun

1. another name for a yellow water lily

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Example Sentences

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)

Mr Squeers then nudged Mrs Squeers to bring away the brandy bottle, lest Nicholas should help himself in the night; and the lady having seized it with great precipitation, they retired together.

From Nicholas Nickleby by Dickens, Charles