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  • In sheer inability to express the profundity of his emotion, Dag Daughtry broke off the sentence and drowned it in his beer-glass.

    CHAPTER XVIII 2010

  • He meditated into his beer-glass a moment, then laughed with reassurance.

    CHAPTER XVIII 2010

  • The Republican-controlled Students Union was a sectarian cesspit, where, for example, a party was held to celebrate the death of British sailors killed during the Argentinian attack on the HMS Sheffield; a place where exercising your right to free speech or even to wear a Northern Ireland shirt could be met, at the very least, with a beer-glass in your face.

    (We should be) Keeping alive the light.... O'Neill 2008

  • Photos: Andrew Scrivani for The Wall Street Journal Some restaurants make no apology for reducing their beer-glass size.

    A Pint-Size Problem 2008

  • And, starting up, he filled a beer-glass to the brim with claret, and waving his hand, commanded all to follow his example, and to rise up from their seats.

    The Black Dwarf 2004

  • Artemus climbed astride the barrel, and somebody brought a beer-glass and put it in his hand.

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • The people in the Insanity Group had paid hard dues—in jails, detox units, car wrecks, and the kind of beer-glass brawls that quickly turn homicidal.

    Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set James Lee Burke 2002

  • He was a hothead, an idealist, and a ferocious fistfighter in a beer-glass brawl, but often vulnerable and badly used by those who knew how to take advantage of his basic goodness.

    Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set James Lee Burke 2002

  • The people in the Insanity Group had paid hard dues—in jails, detox units, car wrecks, and the kind of beer-glass brawls that quickly turn homicidal.

    Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set James Lee Burke 2002

  • He was a hothead, an idealist, and a ferocious fistfighter in a beer-glass brawl, but often vulnerable and badly used by those who knew how to take advantage of his basic goodness.

    Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set James Lee Burke 2002

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