The heat will cause the oil to run down between the stopple and mouth of the bottle. From Wordnik.com. [The American Housewife Containing the Most Valuable and Original Receipts in all the Various Branches of Cookery; and Written in a Minute and Methodical Manner] Reference
Then the witch-wife took up the flasket and pulled out the stopple and betook it to Birdalone, and said: Drink of this now, a little sip, no more. From Wordnik.com. [The Water of the Wondrous Isles] Reference
He figured she had found some calm just in telling to another person what a lonely thin edge of life she occupied, where one hog could act as stopple to a demijohn of woes. From Wordnik.com. [Cold Mountain]
If the stopple cannot be taken out with the hand at the end of this process, repeat it, and you will finally succeed by persevering in it, however firmly it may be wedged in. From Wordnik.com. [The American Housewife Containing the Most Valuable and Original Receipts in all the Various Branches of Cookery; and Written in a Minute and Methodical Manner] Reference
Dip the end of a feather in oil, and rub it round the stopple, close to the mouth of the bottle; then put the bottle about a couple of feet from the fire, having the mouth towards it. From Wordnik.com. [The American Housewife Containing the Most Valuable and Original Receipts in all the Various Branches of Cookery; and Written in a Minute and Methodical Manner] Reference
"Well, I don't carry water when I can make it run by turning a stopple -- not much I don't!" cried Mrs. Hemphill vigorously, meanwhile tilting back and forth on heels and toes with a jolting motion which was gradually producing drowsiness in the infant she held. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls] Reference
There stood the morphine bottle with the stopple out, just as Tom had left it. From Wordnik.com. [Sixes and Sevens] Reference
Up he rose once more, made a fresh stopple of hay, and corked the hole severely. From Wordnik.com. [At the Back of the North Wind] Reference
New irc callouss Role of chiropractors hither Minnesota's No-Fault - stopple Newswire. From Wordnik.com. [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference
He pounces upon the decanter, pulls out the stopple, and applies his nose to the mouth. From Wordnik.com. [manybooks.net] Reference
You may at first stop it so, that the strong working may throw out the stopple, and yet keep it close, till it work strongly. From Wordnik.com. [The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened] Reference
I raised the almost lifeless body very tenderly while Spratling, from the little cup that covered the stopple, administered the brandy. From Wordnik.com. [Fagots from the campfire,] Reference
Lastly, I set the wood and the roots of the mangrove thoroughly wetted, to act on a given volume of atmospheric air in a phial with a ground-glass stopple. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference
At last, unable to wait longer, just as the apothecary was tottering away in quest of a drinking-glass, the Colonel took out the stopple, and lifted the flask itself to his lips. From Wordnik.com. [The Dolliver Romance] Reference
Then charge the jar, as highly as it may be, by throwing into it vitreous electric ether; and in this state hermetically seal it, if practicable, otherwise close it with a glass stopple and wax. From Wordnik.com. [The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes] Reference
Cockles, or Cuckoos (Natica heros), and their remarkable nidus, called "sand-circle," looking like the top of a stone jug without the stopple, and broken on one side, or like a flaring dickey made of sand-paper. From Wordnik.com. [Cape Cod] Reference
It was, in fact, the stopple in the mouth of the bottle-neck passage leading into North Central France, the passage through which ran the main road and, later, the railway from the frontier nearest Paris to the capital. From Wordnik.com. [They Shall Not Pass] Reference
So I took the said flask and went my ways hastily to my own chamber, and there I looked at the said flask and took out the stopple; and there was a liquor therein, white like to water, but of a spicy smell, sweet, fresh, and enheartening. From Wordnik.com. [The Water of the Wondrous Isles] Reference
Bentley sez have a row of holes bored right through the sides of the house to let in the air, and when you didn't want to use 'em plug 'em up, when you want a little air take out one stopple, when you want a good deal take out a hull row of plugs. From Wordnik.com. [Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands] Reference
That which is evolved from the berries of the coffee-tree slightly moistened, and placed in a phial with a glass stopple filled with air, contains alcohol in suspension; like the foul air which is formed in our cellars during the fermentation of must. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference
He took the silver stopple from the bottle, and with a practised hand, tremulous as it was with age, so that one would have thought it must have shaken the liquor into a perfect shower of misapplied drops, he dropped -- I have heard it said -- only one single drop into the goblet of water. From Wordnik.com. [The Dolliver Romance] Reference
A powder horn from over the mantel piece, jerks out the stopple with her teeth, and holding it over the fire, cries, with desperation. From Wordnik.com. [Shadows of Shasta] Reference
A glass stopple filled with air, contains alcohol in suspension; like the foul air which is formed in our cellars during the fermentation of must. From Wordnik.com. [Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America] Reference
Liquor, and the bottom of the stopple) and then stop them up and tye them, or else it will drive out the Corks. From Wordnik.com. [The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened] Reference
Reverse a swallow, and give a stopple. From Wordnik.com. [St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, July 1878, No. 9] Reference
And the stopple in, all had been well. From Wordnik.com. [Old Ballads] Reference
Nicely tapered, and thin in the stopple. From Wordnik.com. [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference
Better, I sure am, ne'er blew out a stopple. From Wordnik.com. [Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete] Reference
I can make a watertight stopple for a bottle with. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Slade with the Boys Over There] Reference
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