wine-bottles

The shiners are three feet underground behind some wine-bottles.

Scenes from a Courtesan's Life 2007

And then most men would have gone home, leaving the woman triumphant, and have repented bitterly as they sat moody over their own fires, with their wine-bottles before them.

Castle Richmond 2004

Instead, he assailed him roughly, and the next evening the boys set up a lot of empty wine-bottles, which they had found in a barrel in a closet, and, with stones for balls, played tenpins on the office floor.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

The glasses clinked, knives and forks clattered, and the wine-bottles glugged as we progressed through the meal.

My Family and Other Animals Durrell, Gerald, 1925- 1956

Besides, the wine-bottles might have been identified as belonging to me.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 Various

The decanters and wine-bottles on the move, and the beer and soda-founts pouring out continual streams, with a whiz.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 Various

On special occasions all the members of a club turn out, wearing little round caps of their club colours, and accompanied as likely as not by a band, and drive off in a procession to some neighbouring town, where they dine; in the night or next morning they return, all uproariously drunk, singing and shouting, waving flags and flinging empty wine-bottles about the road.

Dutch Life in Town and Country P. M. Hough

Sitting down, and taking in hand a glass of champagne, he began a lecture on economy, and how well it was that Uncle Sam had a broad back, being compelled to bear so many burdens as were laid on it, -- alluding to the table covered with wine-bottles.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 Various

He would look for the wine-bottles of the promises and drink rich draughts of vitalizing grace.

My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year John Henry Jowett

MILLER (_carries small table, all set, with wine-bottles, glasses and plates, to the foreground on the left; brings up five chairs while he speaks_).

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 Various