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bottle

drinking alcohol. His friends thought he was a bit too fond of the bottle. She tried to stay away from the bottle, but she never could manage it for long.

bottle

1. n. a drunkard. The bar was empty save an old bottle propped against the side of a booth.

2. and the bottle n. liquor. (Always with the in this sense.) Her only true love is the bottle.

3. in. to drink liquor to excess. Let’s go out and bottle into oblivion.

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that I will drink a whole bottle of rum without taking it from my mouth, sitting outside the window on this spot" (he stooped and pointed to the sloping ledge outside the window) "and without holding on to anything.

cried Dolokhov, hammering with the bottle on the window sill to attract attention.

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He finished his bottle, caught Michael suddenly by both jowls, and, leaning forward, rubbed noses with him.

Kwaque, you black blood-drinker, run n' fetch 'm one fella bottle stop 'm along icey-chestis.

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Thinking it both unfair and unkind to deprive her of any good qualities that were handy, the boy took down every bottle on the shelf and poured some of the contents in Margolotte's dish.

Taking down the bottle of "Cleverness" she added some of the powder to the heap on the dish.

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My head grovelled in the ashes of an extinguished fire, while my feet reposed upon the wreck of a small table, overthrown, and amid the fragments of a miscellaneous dessert, intermingled with a newspaper, some broken glass and shattered bottles, and an empty jug of the Schiedam Kirschenwasser.

With these words he let fall a heavy bottle of Kirschenwasser which, dropping precisely upon the crown of my head, caused me to imagine that my brains were entirely knocked out.

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That and the bottle are enough for you to carry,' he says, giving it to Durdles; 'hand your bundle to me; I am younger and longer- winded than you.

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Luckily for Alice, the little magic bottle had now had its full effect, and she grew no larger: still it was very uncomfortable, and, as there seemed to be no sort of chance of her ever getting out of the room again, no wonder she felt unhappy.

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To set the mind of his mistress at rest, he took a sip (amounting in quantity to a pint or thereabouts) from the stone bottle, and then smacked his lips, winked his eye, and nodded his head.

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marry--If you don't leave off fidgeting with the bottle, Mr.

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That Dutch bottle was found by my noble benefactor and yours, after he entered on possession of the estate.

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I snatched in the darkness, and my fingers caught a bottle of burgundy.

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It happened that the eldest wanted to go into the forest to hew wood, and before he went his mother gave him a beautiful sweet cake and a bottle of wine in order that he might not suffer from hunger or thirst.