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They fished with minnows, which they kept in battered tin buckets that they did not allow you even to touch, or hardly to look at; my boy scarcely breathed in their presence; when one of them got up to cast his line in a new place, the boys all ran, and then came slowly back. These men often carried a flask of liquid that had the property, when taken inwardly, of keeping the damp out.
Tarboe handed over a brandy flask, after taking a pull himself, and then sitting down on one of the kegs, he said: "It is as you see, and now Angel Point very quick. To get it there safe, that's the thing!" Then, scanning the sky closely: "It's for a handsome day, and the wind goes to bear us up fine. Good!
On the morning they left, he took Jo Gordineer's cup from the shelf, and from a hidden place brought out a flask half filled with liquor. He poured out a little in the cup gravely, and handed it to Lawless, but Lawless gave it back to him. "You must drink from it," he said, "not me." He held out the cup of his own flask.
The strength of the sound is said to be proportional to the tempest that follows. Brewster's Jour. To preserve Wine in draught. M. Imery, of Toulouse, gives the following simple means of preserving wine in draught for a considerable time; it is sufficient to pour into the cask a flask of fine olive oil. The wine may thus continue in draught for more than a year.
"Thou didst bear away the tincture? thou hast it now?" impetuously interrogated the Persian. "Behold it!" replied the Greek, exhibiting a small flask filled with the most gorgeous purple liquid. "What seest thou here?" demanded he triumphantly, holding it up to the light.
He stopped in the midst of the furious battle, and suddenly remembering his flask of balsam, drew it out, put it to his mouth, and was about to swallow a quantity of it when there came a stone that took the flask out of his hand, and another one that smashed out three or four of his teeth.
You Englishmen say we Swiss are mercenary. Truly, it does look like it." They had divided between the two knapsacks such refreshments as they had been able to obtain that morning, and as they deemed it prudent to take. Obenreizer carried the wine as his share of the burden; Vendale, the bread and meat and cheese, and the flask of brandy.
I had procured it while still a boy, at that droll age when the stories of duels and highwaymen begin to delight one, and when one imagines oneself nobly standing fire at some future day, in a duel. "There were a couple of old bullets in the bag which contained the pistol, and powder enough in an old flask for two or three charges.
I heard Stubb tell Flask, one morning watch, that there was something of that sort in the wind." "Tish! the bucket!" The Chart
Barry was still sitting behind the steering wheel. He bent forward, as Peter approached. "You go," he said, with a bluntness that masked an infinite understanding. "There's the brandy flask" bringing it out of a side pocket. "If you want help, blow this hooter." He had detached one of the horns from the car. "If not well, I shall just wait here till you come back."
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