"You would better not let Uncle Horace know you are 'a votary of the deadly five o'clock' or he will empty his vials of denunciation upon your unlucky head.

I have heard the cat coming down stairs into the surgery, once or twice after I was in bed; so I set my door ajar a little, and saw her come up again: but whether she had a vial in her paws" "Oh, sir!" says Mrs. Heale, bursting into tears.

You cannot count those endless vials on the mantlepiece with any hope of making a variation in their numbers.

" With a hasty movement, Dr. Jarvis took a little vial from his pocket, and raised it toward his lips.

I'll watch it patiently, as chemists do Their golden birth; and, when 'tis changed, receive it With greater care than they their rich elixir, Just passing from one vial to another.

The prelate then proceeded with the religious part of the ceremony of consecration, and taking a drop of the miraculous oil out of the holy vial by means of a gold needle, he mixed it with the holy oil from his own church.

But later, after the child was several days old, she filled a small vial with water in which the infant had been washed, and took it to a certain wise old black woman, who lived on the farther edge of the town and was well known to be versed in witchcraft and conjuration.

"Doctor, is our friend in shape to walk along with us now?" "He will be, in two or three minutes, after he drinks something I'm going to give him," replied the medical man, shaking a few drops from each of three vials into a glass of water.

" "Then how explain the finding of the vial near the porter's seat?" "May it not have been dropped there on purpose?" put in the Commissary, with another flash of intelligence.

" "And the odor of tobacco?" He got a little vial out of his pocket, uncorked it, and again I caught the sweet and heavy odor of Peter Magnus' cigar.