wineskin

• When everything had been sampled, he picked the gourd up, aimed it like a wineskin at his mouth, and a thin stream of clear bluish liquid squirted straight down his throat. —  BEN BOVA Editor
• The youth had obviously taken his courage from a wineskin, a time- consuming task that accounted for the late hour Mishra gave another thin smile. —  JEFF GRUBB
• Once I seem to remember eating hard bis­cuits from his bag and washing them down with the last water from his wineskin, but even that fades into my dreams of that afternoon, for I remember others seated around us, chewing on similar fare and talking in low tones so that the words were indistinguishable but the southern dialect came through clearly. —  Prayers to Broken Stones
• He tipped back the wineskin, wetting his beard as he drank. —  F ;SF; - vol 091 issue 01 - July 1996
• None of King Thespius' fifty daughters had cause to complain -- unless it was the one I missed Tossing her into the chariot alongside his bows and armor, he took another swig from the wineskin, then went to dig up the bustard. —  F ;SF; - vol 091 issue 01 - July 1996

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