punch bowl

Historical Examples

• The punch-bowl was empty, and the two bottles, empty also, stood beside it.

  The Northern Iron

  George A. Birmingham

• Giddings was at the punch-bowl as on their arrival she swept past with the General.

  Aladdin & Co.

  Herbert Quick

• He has got to the lee-side of some smuggler's punch-bowl, and he wunna budge the night, I doubt.'

  Red Gauntlet

  Sir Walter Scott

• In fact no one observed which fellows visited which punch-bowl.

  Princeton Stories

  Jesse Lynch Williams

• I hope he has not broken dear papa's punch-bowl that he used to be so fond of.

  Miss Marjoribanks

  Mrs (Margaret) Oliphant