A Persian despises a wine-glass; a tumbler is his measure. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia] Reference
Seriously, when you need help getting the idea tumbler turning, what do you do?. From Wordnik.com. [Shaister Miester Do Da] Reference
I might break a tumbler to be sure, but I should have the full enjoyment of it while it lasted. From Wordnik.com. [Girls and Women] Reference
Whiskey or rum taken unmixed from a tumbler is a knock-down blow to temperance, but the little thimbleful of brandy, or Chartreuse, or. From Wordnik.com. [Over the Teacups] Reference
That tumbler is worth a page of dialog. From Wordnik.com. [Lance Mannion:] Reference
A tumbler is something you put whiskey in …. From Wordnik.com. [New ABP Now Open, Still Giving Away Tumblers | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan] Reference
With the exception of the "tumbler," commercially made compost bins are derived from one of these two systems. From Wordnik.com. [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference
An ordinary tumbler holds the same as a coffee cup. From Wordnik.com. [Things Mother Used to Make] Reference
He orders a second tumbler but knows he shouldn't. From Wordnik.com. [Green Animals] Reference
The gardener brought a tumbler on a tray, and a syphon. From Wordnik.com. [Love at Paddington] Reference
"Vile brandy!" said Hardwicke as he set his tumbler down. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
One man's pin tumbler, it seems, is another's Rubik's Cube. From Wordnik.com. [Beware the 'Bump' Key] Reference
A tumbler of copper liquid appears on the table before her. From Wordnik.com. [The The Three Sisters] Reference
Join the ends of the wire to the two metals in the tumbler. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
Decomposition in an untumbled tumbler slows down to a crawl. From Wordnik.com. [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference
Sipping a small glass tumbler of pink wine, he speaks temperately. From Wordnik.com. [Homophobia] Reference
Isabel swirled the contents of her tumbler with the aluminum tube. From Wordnik.com. [Prom Date] Reference
"I wanted to see if the tumbler was heavy enough to break the window.". From Wordnik.com. [Polar Bear] Reference
Filling a tumbler with brandy, I forced it between his quivering fingers. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
Delia saw her hand tremble as she raised her tumbler of water to her lips. From Wordnik.com. [The Governess] Reference
“No, I think you'll find, Holmes, it was the tumbler, Ollie Mantar …”. From Wordnik.com. [The Case Of The Limehouse Golem] Reference
Myice teacrashes, flooding her lemonade tumbler and dripping onto the grass. From Wordnik.com. [The Kisses of a Satyr] Reference
He had taken up the tumbler and was holding it out of the window toward Little-Boy. From Wordnik.com. [Good Blood] Reference
She lifted the tumbler, cheeks dimpling as her lips tightened on the aluminum tube. From Wordnik.com. [Prom Date] Reference
He drank from the tumbler and pointed with the remote, jabbing his thumb at the button. From Wordnik.com. [Crane Man] Reference
I fire up the FreeCell game, put the phone on speaker, and pour a tumbler of chardonnay. From Wordnik.com. [This Old Man] Reference
Drink a tumbler or more of hot or cold water an hour before meals -- preferably hot water. From Wordnik.com. [Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis] Reference
It relied on the same pin tumbler principle that is used by many of today's most popular locks. From Wordnik.com. [Locksport: Competitive Lockpicking Growing In U.S. Popularity] Reference
Place a few limestone pebbles in a tumbler with this soft water and after a day or two test again. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
Make the gas and burn it at the end of a tube, holding a dry, cold tumbler inverted over the flame. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
At the Mexico City airport, vendors are prepared to satisfy everyone's official plastic-tumbler and gimme-cap needs. From Wordnik.com. [Cashing In On Eclipsemania] Reference
In one hand he held a remote controller and in the other a tall tumbler with ice and an amber liquid that looked like whiskey. From Wordnik.com. [Crane Man] Reference
From within his wealth of apparatus Joe grinned at Mickey, and poured him the usual three fingers of whiskey in an old-fashioned tumbler. From Wordnik.com. [Lips that Touch Liquor: The Gin Buck] Reference
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