drinking-case

Updated: May 14, 2025

I was obliged to say, here, that my horse could not stand these sepulchral noises, and that my nerves, being shattered by the fever, were inadequate to bear the shock. So the man Dimpdin smiled, like a window-mummy, and contented himself with looking like Apollyon. We reached a rill directly, and he produced a wicker flask, with a Britannia drinking-case.

George Alfred Townsend - Campaigns of a Non-Combatant,: and His Romaunt Abroad During the War