On the porch was a cut-glass vase holding ten red roses. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
Capital cities would be marked by jewel-like cut-glass lights. From Wordnik.com. [Icon of a Fair, a Borough, the World] Reference
He began pouring huge measures of Vat 69 into cut-glass tumblers. From Wordnik.com. [A Guilty Thing Surprised]
But by the time all this had happened the cut-glass age was over, anyway. From Wordnik.com. [Flappers and Philosophers] Reference
There are also two cut-glass cruets, said to be of the fifteenth century. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire] Reference
Sir George turned a cold, cut-glass blue gaze on Detective Sergeant Lasko. From Wordnik.com. [the dirty duck]
After a bit of hard bargaining she bought a small cut-glass decanter for £20. From Wordnik.com. [Rumpole and the Reign of Terror]
She met her daughter at the foot of the stairs with the tiny cut-glass bottle. From Wordnik.com. [Hubert's Wife A Story for You] Reference
Walking over to a small table near a fireplace, she picked up a cut-glass carafe. From Wordnik.com. [Dragons of Spring Dawning]
Lemon Juice for Cut Glass -- Lemon juice is fine for polishing cut-glass tumblers. From Wordnik.com. [Fowler's Household Helps Over 300 Useful and Valuable Helps About the Home, Carefully Compiled and Arranged in Convenient Form for Frequent Use] Reference
From a silver tray, she picked a cut-glass bottle and poured herself a glass of rum. From Wordnik.com. [Soul of the Fire]
I prefer that homely light to the cut-glass chandelier which illuminates the parlors here. From Wordnik.com. [Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 42, January, 1851] Reference
I do like rich carpets and elegant carved furniture, and fine china and cut-glass and silver. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864] Reference
His cut-glass diction makes each and every consonant stand out in the highest possible relief. From Wordnik.com. [And They Could Sing, Too] Reference
Be that as it might, he stretched it out for the cut-glass decanter and poured himself a drink. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Apparition]
Now he saw that there were ice plants, too, ranging from cut-glass blades of grass to snow trees. From Wordnik.com. [Phaze Doubt]
I brought whiskey in miniature cut-glass tumblers, we raised them in salute, then tasted the liquor. From Wordnik.com. [Time and Again]
She held a bottle of Saint-Emilion, six years old, in one hand, and a cut-glass tumbler in the other. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret Hesitates]
As he sat facing her old pump organ, the young minister noticed a cut-glass bowl sitting on top of it. From Wordnik.com. [kemo666 Diary Entry] Reference
He sang as he poured bay nirn from a cut-glass bottle into his cupped hands and rubbed it into his hair. From Wordnik.com. [When the Lion Feeds]
They looked like dried flowers that had curled up, collecting dust in an old cut-glass vase without water. From Wordnik.com. [The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 9] Reference
“I love the dining-room MOST,” she said, “all that MARVELLOUS china, and that HUGE cut-glass bowl.”. From Wordnik.com. [Flappers and Philosophers] Reference
There was a rough stone age and a smooth stone age and a bronze age, and many years afterward a cut-glass age. From Wordnik.com. [Flappers and Philosophers] Reference
The perfect replacement came into the room bearing a flowered tray with a cut-glass decanter and glasses on it. From Wordnik.com. [To Say Nothing of the Dog]
They will drink out of cut-glass and silver at their feasts, and they leave the feast of Christ's dying love, the. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Duty, v. 2 A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles] Reference
She went to the side-board, and brought out a cut-glass decanter, and three cracked tumblers, which she placed on the table. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time] Reference
Arak in a cut-glass decanter and a copper bowl of leaf-wrapped betelnut and lime sat on the bartered rosewood table between us. From Wordnik.com. [The Gates of Noon]
The main saloon with its ornate Victorian carving, formal plastered ceiling and gleaming cut-glass panels was beginning to fill. From Wordnik.com. [Cargo of Eagles]
He poured amber liquid from one of the decanters into a cut-glass tumbler and sipped it, still standing, without offering me any. From Wordnik.com. [Sagittarius Whorl]
She poured from a cut-glass decanter into two glasses that matched those on the table, these with a twist of pale orange in the stem. From Wordnik.com. [A Monstrous Regiment of Women]
In the middle of the table would be celery in tall cut-glass stands, on the sides cranberries in moulds and various kinds of pickles. From Wordnik.com. [Plantation Sketches] Reference
But she did not fasten them on her gown; instead she filled a cut-glass bowl with water and set them at the open casement in the shade. From Wordnik.com. [The Rim of the Desert] Reference
Furthermore she arranged them in the best cut-glass dish in symmetrical rows with the scarlet tomatoes tucked invitingly in the centre. From Wordnik.com. [At Home with the Jardines] Reference
Buried in his hair, it was fancy gold filigree around a big red enamel heart, flashes of red glass, cut-glass jewels twinkled in the gold. From Wordnik.com. [Diary]
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