whiskey-bottle

As the lancer came up, I dropped my sword from my right hand, and hurled the portmanteau at his head, with aim so true, that he fell back on his saddle like a sack, and thus when the horse galloped up to me, I had no difficulty in dismounting the rider: the whiskey-bottle struck him over his right eye, and he was completely stunned.

Burlesques 2006

Indians -- the Pine Rat ensconces himself with his whiskey-bottle at night, crouching in dread of the darkness, or of Leeds's devil, aforesaid.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 Various

I wished I had a temperance tract to give him, for his face was redder than the sun last night, when it went down in a cloud, and his eyes looked like stoppers to a whiskey-bottle, which had got soaked through.

Hurrah for New England! The Virginia Boy's Vacation Louisa C. Tuthill

A whiskey-bottle that shaved within an inch of my head, followed by an angry oath, at once recalled me to myself and showed me my rôle.

My Dog is avenged 1901

A whiskey-bottle that shaved within an inch of my head, followed by an angry oath, at once recalled me to myself and showed me my role.

The Making of an American Riis, Jacob A 1901

The moral of his life came in just as he was leaving it, for he rose from his death-bed to hide a whiskey-bottle from his wife.

Auld Licht Idyls 1898

Gleason's orderly entering the room a minute after was told to hand him a tumbler and the whiskey-bottle, and with shaking hand the big subaltern tossed off a bumper, while the man went on strapping and roping his trunks and field-kit.

Marion's Faith. Charles King 1888

His eyes met those of P. Gibbs on the other side, and the latter reached for a whiskey-bottle.

Tales from Bohemia Robert Neilson Stephens 1886

A whiskey-bottle that shaved within an inch of my head, followed by an angry oath, at once recalled me to myself and showed me my role.

The Making of an American 1881

To depart without the ceremony of saying good-bye takes its name from the most elaborately civil of people -- French leave; while the least perturbable of nations has been made to contribute an epithet, Dutch, to the courage derived from the whiskey-bottle.

From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life 1877