In one way it was a fortunate thing for Diggory that he did not discover the note sooner, for hardly had Thurston set the lighted candle in the empty bottle than Noaks picked it up, and peered carefully into each of the four corners, and behind the heaps of benches and other lumber.

My father looked at me almost admiringly, and his hand, that had been fingering the lace, groped toward an empty bottle.

He choked, swallowed, and presently heard the empty bottle splash in the river.

The first empty bottle broke to one side, the second squarely between the front wheels.

He got up, lit the candle and explained to me with great wealth of Arabic theosophy that the snakes I saw were mere delusions because Allah never made them; and I tried to look utterly drunk, staring at him with dropped jaw and droopy eyelids, knocking an empty bottle over with my elbow by way of calling attention to it.

A half-empty bottle of champagne stood on the floor.

"I wonder if that was liquor he was taking, and if he threw away the empty bottle," thought Joe quickly.

Everything was in its place; the glass and the empty bottle of spirits were on the table; only the chair in which Uncle Macquart must have been sitting bore traces of fire, the front legs were blackened and the straw was partially consumed.

Producing the empty bottle he asked the bar-keeper how much he would charge for filling it, and on hearing the amount told him to go ahead.

A few sous, the empty bottle, and the cork.

He plays his last sou on the famous game, and in the evening, when he returns home, he carries to his familywhat?the empty bottle!

The nearly empty bottle stood on the table, and an over-turned tumbler accounted for a large, dark patch on the table-cloth.

" "Has the engagement been formally announced?" said he, holding the now empty bottle upside down, and squeezing it vigorously.

Why?" "Because," replied the lawyer, setting his glass upside down, and rolling the empty bottle along the floor, with a dejected air, "because it may affect this marriage of yours.

She nodded and he poured them each a glass of Sauvignon Blanc from a half empty bottle.

I'll have her put in the" But whatever the evil was which threatened Hagar Warren it was not defined by words, for at that moment the indignant lady caught sight of an empty bottle, which she instantly recognized as having held her very oldest, choicest wine.

She is as stupid tonight as an empty bottle.

For some minutes he remained silent, except in the gustatory sense, then he turned upon me and, handing back an empty bottle, said triumphantly, "You must now produce, under Clause 5005 Gerrard, framed this morning at 11-30 o'clock, one pint of old ale and six ounces of bread and cheese for the sustentation of the sub-inspector.

A simple illustration of this is the pressure which will blow a cork from an empty bottle when that bottle has been placed near the fire.

Now that there empty bottle, a hundred and thirty miles from a whiskey town, kind of set me thinkin'.

Maka could not help thinking that Inkspot had a wonderful nose for an empty bottle, and could scarcely restrain from a shudder at the thought of what might have happened had the bottle been full.

Thence she returned suddenly with a half empty bottle in her hand and a look of extreme annoyance on her face.

The long hand of Pale Annie curled affectionately around the neck of an empty bottle.

As he swung it around his head there was a yell from men ducking out of the way, and Pale Annie curled his hand again around his favorite empty bottle.

Say, an empty bottle; but, a vacant house.