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  • I keep my glasses—the perfect martini receptacles, heavy and thin-stemmed, with exquisite rims—in the freezer, and sip them very slowly while still managing to make the last swallow cold.

    Hollywood Savage Kristin McCloy 2010

  • I keep my glasses—the perfect martini receptacles, heavy and thin-stemmed, with exquisite rims—in the freezer, and sip them very slowly while still managing to make the last swallow cold.

    Hollywood Savage Kristin McCloy 2010

  • They were thin-stemmed but flourishing, their leaves delicate with slightly brownish tips.

    Dark Dude Oscar Hijuelos 2008

  • They were thin-stemmed but flourishing, their leaves delicate with slightly brownish tips.

    Dark Dude Oscar Hijuelos 2008

  • They were thin-stemmed but flourishing, their leaves delicate with slightly brownish tips.

    Dark Dude Oscar Hijuelos 2008

  • I like the understated elegance of the restaurant: Its van Gogh palette of yellow and blue, the thin-stemmed wineglasses and the polished new mirrors along one wall that make the room feel larger.

    Battered Manhattan Sinks into Pillows of Gnocchi 2008

  • The thin-stemmed glasses were all set up, full to the brim, there for the taking.

    Waiting for Snow in Havana Carlos Eire 2003

  • An eight-year-old can be trusted to carry eight things to or from the table, including fragile, thin-stemmed wineglasses.

    THE BLESSING OF A SKINNED KNEE Ph.D. Wendy Mogel 2001

  • An eight-year-old can be trusted to carry eight things to or from the table, including fragile, thin-stemmed wineglasses.

    THE BLESSING OF A SKINNED KNEE Ph.D. Wendy Mogel 2001

  • One man pulled a thin-stemmed pipe and a long splinter from a pocket.

    Stone of Tears Goodkind, Terry 1995

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