Noun, : drinking soda by the bottleful. From Dictionary.com.
We will pour a bottleful down your throat at the same time. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods] Reference
If there is a stream near your school, go to it and get a bottleful of water. From Wordnik.com. [Highroads of Geography] Reference
I once saw a little bottleful of strange-looking herbs and water sold for P2. 50. From Wordnik.com. [The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir] Reference
They are to be taken carefully, drop by drop, not carelessly gulped down by the bottleful. From Wordnik.com. [The Guide to Reading — the Pocket University Volume XXIII] Reference
The crew are to look after the sheep and every day will have to give each one a bottleful of water. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference
Uhm...try that in smog filled Metro Manila and it lands you in Medical City, with a bottleful of antibiotics. From Wordnik.com. [What's New With Tarie] Reference
Anne Kearns has the lumbago for which she rubs on Lourdes water, given her by a lady who got a bottleful from a passionist father. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
He poured briquettes from the bag into the fire-box of the barbecue and then poured the whole bottleful of lighter fuel over the briquettes. From Wordnik.com. [They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff] Reference
Iridith located the dragon's tears the day after giving Valder the bottomless bag; a wizard in Sardiron had a bottleful and was willing to trade. From Wordnik.com. [The Misenchanted Sword]
They still had wine with dinner, which Rossetti downed by the bottleful, but he no longer had gin or scotch afterward, and he did seem better for it. From Wordnik.com. [The Wayward Muse] Reference
I bargained with the Laps subsequently for a large bottleful, and never shall I forget the treat I enjoyed in sipping the new, warm milk on the ground. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
Were a bottleful of concentrated miasma, such as we inhale herein, collected, what a deadly poison, instantaneous in its action, undiscoverable in its properties, would it be!. From Wordnik.com. [How I Found Livingstone] Reference
He gulped down brandy, a whole bottleful, and it seems to have saved his life. From Wordnik.com. [The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes]
"I shouldn't think you'd mind, with such a lot; we only have a bottleful at home.". From Wordnik.com. [Seven Little Australians] Reference
Drink bravely out of the spring of wisdom, and bring home a little bottleful for me. From Wordnik.com. [The Garden of Paradise] Reference
At 8.5 percent alcohol by volume, I envisioned a bottleful of Beethoven ... in a beater. From Wordnik.com. [TNT Diner] Reference
"Nothing is easier," he replied; "pour a bottleful of water into an earthen bowl and give it to me.". From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of China] Reference
They had a bottleful of alcohol, which they emptied out in the petrol tank, reports the China Daily. From Wordnik.com. [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference
If you got a sackful you could take them down to the cook-house and swap them for a water-bottleful of coffee. From Wordnik.com. [Homage to Catalonia] Reference
Getting no result, he emptied out a little heap -- nearly half the bottleful, in fact -- upon a slate and tried a match. From Wordnik.com. [The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories] Reference
That would have been silly and Victorian after the grapefruit and chocolates and novels, to say nothing of balm by the bottleful. From Wordnik.com. [Winnie Childs The Shop Girl] Reference
Well, one day he sent his daughter to fetch a bottleful of the muddy water of the source, which then scarcely bubbled up to the surface. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 1] Reference
Nettleship reluctantly served out a double allowance, leaving scarcely a quarter of a bottleful, -- the other had before been exhausted. From Wordnik.com. [Paddy Finn] Reference
I never said nothin 'to nobody 'bout it, but I poured the whole bottleful down the sink, and told Doctor Marsh that he needn't come again. From Wordnik.com. [The Wall Between] Reference
We'll have the bottleful -- then you needn't go twice. ". From Wordnik.com. [Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 02] Reference
What would be the effect if you poured the whole bottleful into the quarry and set it off? ". From Wordnik.com. [The Face and the Mask] Reference
Drink deeply from the fountain of wisdom while you are there, and bring home a bottleful for me. ". From Wordnik.com. [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen] Reference
"Well, gi 'me a bottleful; that won't hurt you.". From Wordnik.com. ["Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea] Reference
B. a bottleful of binary vitamins. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
A bottleful from a passionist father. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
A bottleful would have raised our spirits. From Wordnik.com. [Queen Sheba's Ring] Reference
"wine-bottleful" was probably about 700 cc. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
I will take a bottleful. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Crystal Hunters A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps] Reference
"No -- at least barely a bottleful. From Wordnik.com. [Afterwards] Reference
The bottleful is not going fast enough. ". From Wordnik.com. [David Lockwin—The People's Idol] Reference
I took care to bring a bottleful with me. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 1] Reference
You might feed it to a baby by the bottleful. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Descent of Man and Other Stories] Reference
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