wine-glass-full

Updated: May 25, 2025

And a pot of tea. The waiter stared; Francis stared. Careless whether she surprised them or not, she instructed the waiter, when her directions had been complied with, to pour a large wine-glass-full of the liqueur into a tumbler, and to fill it up from the teapot. 'I can't do it for myself, she remarked, 'my hand trembles so. She drank the strange mixture eagerly, hot as it was.

Wilkie Collins - The Haunted Hotel