"Glassful" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... iron, add to a wine-glassful of the water a few drops of an infusion of nut-galls; or better, suffer a nut-gall to be suspended in it for twenty-four hours, which will cause the water to acquire a blueish black ...
— A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons • Fredrick Accum
... a little whirlwind, leaving the general with his back to the fire, looking blank and uncomfortable. And from his little silver tankard he poured out a glassful of his mulled claret, not thinking, and smelled to it deliberately, as he used to do when he was tasting a new wine, and looked through it, and set the glass down, forgetting he was to drink it, ...
— The House by the Church-Yard • J. Sheridan Le Fanu
... right now, Pauline. Take a bit of a drink first of all! [She pours out a small glassful of brandy.] An' then come an' eat a bite. It ...
— The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann - Volume II • Gerhart Hauptmann
... away. So now I am loafing about; as true as I believe in God, I have had nothing to eat for two days." He spoke modestly, with an effort at a smile. A sbiten{24b}-seller, an old soldier, stood near by. I called him up. He poured out his sbiten. The peasant took a boiling-hot glassful in his hands, and as he tried before drinking not to let any of the heat escape in vain, and warmed his hands over it, he related his adventures to me. These adventures, or the histories of them, are almost always identical: the man ...
— What To Do? - thoughts evoked by the census of Moscow • Count Lyof N. Tolstoi
... sugar. A villager quickly kindles a fire and cooks the tea, performing the services eagerly, in anticipation of coming in for a modest share of what to him is an unwonted luxury. Being rewarded with a tiny glassful of tea and a lump of sugar, he places the sweet morsel in his mouth and sucks the tea through it with noisy satisfaction, prolonging the presumably delightful sensation thereby produced to fully a couple of minutes. During this brief indulgence of his palate, a score of his ragged co- ...
— Around the World on a Bicycle V1 • Thomas Stevens
... a witty fellow, a merry guest, and brought a measure of brandy with him. Every one received a small glassful, or a cupful when there was a scarcity of glasses: even Juergen had as much as a large thimbleful, that he might digest the fat eel, the eel breeder said, who always told the same story over again, ...
— What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales • Hans Christian Andersen
... vodka in the cupboard in the right-hand corner," he thought. "If I drink one wine-glassful, she ...
— The Schoolmaster and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov
... in the presence of his neighbors, of whom I had the privilege of being one, he drank a glassful to "long life," and offered another to Rebekah, his ...
— In Those Days - The Story of an Old Man • Jehudah Steinberg
... cigarette when it is offered him, does not hanker after his tea, and scarcely ever drinks alone. He gets drunk now and then, not because he greatly wants to, but socially; because, when half-a-dozen of them are drinking in rounds, 'What can a fellow du?' Even then he often leaves untouched a glassful that has been ordered for him, though all the while after his third or fourth glass, he may be asking other men to 'drink up and hae another.' Drinking with him is an expression of jollity, not the ...
— A Poor Man's House • Stephen Sydney Reynolds
... gave that order. The servant soon returned. The decanter and the glass were completely empty. Noirtier made a sign that he wished to speak. "Why are the glass and decanter empty?" asked he; "Valentine said she only drank half the glassful." The translation of this new question occupied another five minutes. "I do not know," said the servant, "but the housemaid is in Mademoiselle Valentine's room: ...
— The Count of Monte Cristo • Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
