Apparently harmless whisky bottles exploded when attempts were made to draw the corks, and several small mines went up.

Cork well, and seal the corks.

I pulled the cork and filled all the glasses, then poured a lot into the wash-bowl, when I handed the bottle to the Kernal.

Gather your berries when they are full grown, pick and bottle them, tie a paper over them, prick it with a pin, and set it in the oven; after you have drawn, and when they are coddled, take them out and when they are cold cork them up; rosin the cork over, and keep them for use.

There were popping corks and sounds of convivial revelry that made the scene anything but warlike.

Bottle it up, and tie the corks down.

"So the ice, that I think will freeze inside the bottle, will not push out the cork," explained Daddy Blake.

For perhaps a second Tommy remained motionless; then sitting up he removed the cork, and poured himself out about a quarter of a tumbler of neat spirit.

Mac picked up a billet of wood, and drove the cork in flush with the neck.

" "And that's what saved the bottle from breaking," said Daddy Blake, "If I had not wired down the cork of our bottle the water would have pushed itself up, after it was frozen, and would have stuck out of the bottle neck, like a round icicle.

She's got temperament enough to blow the cork out of any bottle you tried to hold it down in.

She was in Mrs. Linceford's room on Monday morning, putting high velvet-covered corks to the heels of her slippers, when Sin Saxon came over hurriedly, and tapped at the door.

Robert E. Pinkerton (A); 3Nov58; R224597. Winning his corks.

"The Garrison of Cape Ann" would have been a fine poem, but it has too much of the author in it, and to put a moral at the end of a ballad is like sticking a cork on the point of a sword.

Many the time have I held a champagne cork to my nose, closed my eyes and dreamed that I was having a time.

The fisherman, too, dreams of fish, sees a bobbing cork in his dreams, till he can almost catch them in his sink-spout.

He took out the cork and tipped up the demijohn, balancing it skilfully upon his right forearm.

" He helped himself from the flask, coughed heavily, and then pounded home the cork.

Having thoroughly washed and dried the bottles, supposing they have been before used for the same kind of wine, provide corks, which will be improved by being slightly boiled, or at least steeped in hot water,a wooden hammer or mallet, a bottling-boot, and a squeezer for the corks.

Then, picking his way down to the water's edge, he filled it to the neck and replaced the cork.

"That bottle leaks all round the cork.

come, come, my little Dido, set your corks on a creaking, my knaves are unthrifty; dance not your Canaries heere up & down, looke about to my Guests I say. Hostis.

At the next trial, so exactly had they been aimed that the point of the one hit upon the haft of the other and stripped the cork almost to the blade.

" "One day I noticed that the natter-list had stuffed small corks into the muzzles of all the six barrels of his revolver.

He seized it adroitly in his paws, twisted out the cork, and held the bottle up to his mouth with a comical dexterity that told of previous experience.