snifters

• “They were built to teach wisdom to the clergy or poise to the sons of the aristocracy who needed to have something to discuss over their brandy snifters.”

  Forbes: The Folly Of Higher Education Subsidies

• “Labor Day may be the time to put away those umbrella-laden tiki drinks (although, hell, a Zombie is great year 'round), but autumn is the perfect season to break out the snifters and drink some dark sipping rums.”

  The Huffington Post: Tony Sachs: Yo-Ho-Ho And A Snifter Of Rum: Sipping Rums To Enjoy Without Paper Umbrellas

• “They sat up in their beloved library and drank brandy out of big snifters the way they used to at a quiet hotel bar after a raucous party in some artist's loft in SoHo.”

  The Painter's Wife, a short story

• “(These snifters, in fact, had been smuggled out of the Pierre by a "pregnant" Richard.)”

  The Painter's Wife, a short story

• “Knowles, not bothering to ask their preferences, fetched a bottle of cognac and four snifters from a well-stocked bar and poured out a decent measure for each of them, before seating himself next to the assistant, whom he called Maj or Maja, Regan not quite catching whether the name ended in a vowel.”

  Simon & Schuster: O: A Presidential Novel

• “We can plan our end, imagining snifters of brandy and a library, like author Terry Pratchett, or moments of music and memory spent with loving friends, like Dudley Clendinen.”

  The Huffington Post: Rev. Amy Ziettlow: To Kevork Or Not To Kevork, That Is The Question

• “The party was the typical L.A. affair—too much money and ego concentrated in one place, executives networking, industry gossip everywhere, rap stars holding court with their entourages, nursing snifters of cognac while typing on iPhones, Sidekicks and BlackBerrys or arranging booty calls on their cell phones, and music video models sprinkled throughout, working the scene like professionals, hoping to leave that night with somebody with clout.”

  Simon & Schuster: Larger Than Lyfe

• “The parents laughed and poured amber liqueur into their snifters.”

  Fictionaut: Snow

• “Chamber of Commerce in their lawsuit made me wonder whether I had inadvertently been transported back 100 years to a wood-paneled private club where portly industrialists railed against "commonists" between sips from their brandy snifters and puffs on their cigars.”

  The Huffington Post: Marty Robins: Conservatives: Do the Right Thing on Proxy Rules!

• “When it's hot, hot, hot outside, sometimes you need to refresh the parts straight-from-the-bottle snifters cannot reach”

  The Guardian: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's summer drinks recipes

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