brandy bottle
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Young Mrs. Raeburn is itching to tell her husband about her past and he is itching for the brandy bottle.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
Madge claimed the most remarkable bit of flotsam—nothing less than the brandy bottle, unbroken, but nearly full of salt water, half buried in sand.
From His Unknown Wife by Tracy, Louis
The labors of his waking hours and the brandy bottle only tell him of an unfaithful woman's vagaries; a greedy lover's plots, or the curiosity of the dark-eyed maid, whose avarice is above her fidelity.
From The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance by Savage, Richard
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