bottle up

• “Well, anyway, I mean M'rice has to give the bottle up the minute he stops swallering.”

  Penrod

• “If the Japanese should sink one ship in Pearl Harbor (the so-called Mouse Trap), they could bottle up the entire fleet.”

  Blood Brothers

• “Young Mr. Richard Pearson Hobson, who had tried-and failed-to bottle up the Spanish ships in Santiago Bay by sinking a collier across the mouth of the harbor, became, for his pains, "the most kissed man in America.”

  Manuscript Draft: Walter Reed: Doctor in Uniform, by Laura Wood, [19 -- ]

• “Shields can work both ways - bottle up fear and it will eat you alive, sweetling.”

  Fictionaut: Elephant in the City

• “Or, if the lady were to take it into her head to call and discovered that Mr. Templeton was not known to the porter, she might take alarm and bottle up her valuable information.”

  Unnatural Death

• “Milne had now been assigned four tasks: he was to support the French in protecting the troop convoys in the western Mediterranean; he was to observe and bottle up the Austrians in the Adriatic; he was to find and sink Goeben wherever she was; and he was to prevent the German battle cruiser from breaking out past Gibraltar.”

  Castles of Steel

• “He didn’t seem to notice how much she’d taken for herself and just turned the cold, freezer-stored bottle up to his mouth.”

  Simon & Schuster: Surrender the Dark

• “They bark out all this weird stuff every now and then, even if they don’t want to, even though they wanna bottle up all that stuff and just … be … normal and nice-y, nice….”

  Simon & Schuster: After Hours

• “Entering the shop from the rear (a familiar route for a Greek), Pan fetched the bottle up to the sitting room, where Kudra admired it at length.”

  Fictionaut: La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth

• “Reduce all these articles to fine powder, and sift them through a fine sieve; then bottle up for use; dose, a teaspoonful three or four times a day, in a tea of water-melon or pumpkin seeds.”

  The Cherokee Physician, or Indian Guide to Health, as Given by Richard Foreman, a Cherokee Doctor; Comprising a Brief View of Anatomy, With General Rules for Preserving Health without the Use of Medicines. The Diseases of the U. States, with Their Symptoms, Causes, and Means of Prevention, are Treated on in a Satisfactory Manner. It Also Contains a Description of a Variety of Herbs and Roots, Many of which are not Explained in Any Other Book, and their Medical Virtues have Hitherto been Unknown to the Whites; To which is Added a Short Dispensatory.

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