sample-bottles

Updated: May 22, 2025

Any books, of course, will do, as you will have them handsomely bound, and keep them under plate-glass. On a side-table will be little sample-bottles of wine, a few truffles on a white porcelain saucer, a prodigious strawberry or two, perhaps, at the time when such fruit costs much money.

William Makepeace Thackeray - The Fitz-Boodle Papers