beer-bottles

Beer Goggles: handmade glasses from old beer-bottles

Boing Boing: November 19, 2006 - November 25, 2006 Archives 2006

If the Shire is a suburban garden, Sauron and his henchmen are that old bourgeois bugaboo, the Mob - mindless football supporters throwing their beer-bottles over the fence the worst aspects of modern urban society represented as the whole by a fearful, backward-yearning class for whom "good taste" is synonymous with "restraint" (pastel colours, murmured protest) and "civilized" behaviour means "conventional behaviour in all circumstances".

Boing Boing: December 22, 2002 - December 28, 2002 Archives 2002

Such was my haste that I could pay only a flying visit to the broken beer-bottles, the burst provision-tins, the ice-plants, and the hospitable society of

The Land of Midian 2003

Even looking at the old candy-wrappers and beer-bottles was like looking at the greatest paintings you ever saw.

The Waste Lands King, Stephen, 1947- 1991

Nay, even in the dire exigencies of war we do not think better of the Germans for having stabled their horses in one of the French churches and left their broken beer-bottles on the high altar and the refuse of a stable strewn up and down the nave.

The Power of Womanhood, or Mothers and Sons A Book For Parents, And Those In Loco Parentis Ellice Hopkins

Myra turned slowly back into the room, noting with jaded eyes the empty beer-bottles, crusts of sandwiches, ashes on the rugs, chairs pulled crazily about.

O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 Various

= Carbolic Acid, Phenic Acid, or Phenol =, is largely employed as a disinfectant, and is often supplied in ordinary beer-bottles without labels.

Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology

President Hale of Hobart "was kept at bay by a shower of beer-bottles" and at another time was forced to climb through a window and down a ladder to escape trouble from students in his classroom.

Undergraduate Work and the University of North Carolina 1934

There were not enough bedsteads; the sheets were of canvas, and so coarse that the wounded men recoiled from them, begging to be left in their blankets; there was no bedroom furniture of any kind, and empty beer-bottles were used for candlesticks.

Florence Nightingale: Part II 1918

"That's for throwing beer-bottles!" he called after the man.

Kindred of the Dust 1918