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champagne-glass

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  • Like the downward gurgle of a champagne-glass pyramid, this is a tide that flows from the top.

    Sozzled - how English cricket got lost in drink | Barney Ronay 2011

  • Like the downward gurgle of a champagne-glass pyramid, this is a tide that flows from the top.

    Sozzled - how English cricket got lost in drink | Barney Ronay 2011

  • Poconos offers newlyweds free room with champagne-glass Jacuzzi.

    Katie Holmes David Letterman Interview; Katie Holmes “Late Show With David Letterman” 2009

  • However: the simple act of inspecting the bumpers shaved a minute off travel time, which meant we missed a light, which meant we got behind a city bus trundling down snow-narrowed streets like an elephant going down the aisle of a champagne-glass store.

    Tuesday, Feb. 16 – The Bleat. 2010

  • She ran with the heart of a locomotive, on champagne-glass ankles for the pleasure of the crowd, the sheiks, oilmen, entrepreneurs, old money from the thousand-acre farms, the handicappers, men in bad sport coats with crumpled sheets full of betting hieroglyphics, the julep-swillers and the ladies in hats the size of boats, and the rest of the people who make up thoroughbred racing.

    Miscellany 2009

  • She ran with the heart of a locomotive, on champagne-glass ankles for the pleasure of the crowd, the sheiks, oilmen, entrepreneurs, old money from the thousand-acre farms, the handicappers, men in bad sport coats with crumpled sheets full of betting hieroglyphics, the julep-swillers and the ladies in hats the size of boats, and the rest of the people who make up thoroughbred racing.

    May 2008 2008

  • She ran with the heart of a locomotive, on champagne-glass ankles for the pleasure of the crowd, the sheiks, oilmen, entrepreneurs, old money from the thousand-acre farms, the handicappers, men in bad sport coats with crumpled sheets full of betting hieroglyphics, the julep-swillers and the ladies in hats the size of boats, and the rest of the people who make up thoroughbred racing.

    Blood Sport 2008

  • She ran with the heart of a locomotive, on champagne-glass ankles for the pleasure of the crowd, the sheiks, oilmen, entrepreneurs, old money from the thousand-acre farms, the handicappers, men in bad sport coats with crumpled sheets full of betting hieroglyphics, the julep-swillers and the ladies in hats the size of boats, and the rest of the people who make up thoroughbred racing.

    Blood Sport 2008

  • He leaned back in his chair, and laughed; then, he emptied the champagne-glass he had been playing with.

    The Last Woman Ross Beeckman

  • Darco's health was toasted, and the company went to rehearsal again, each with a champagne-glass in one hand and a sandwich in the other, and worked banqueting.

    Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray

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