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glass-stoppered

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  • Miss Poole stepped to a small rolling side table — intended, Svenson knew, to hold a tray of medical implements — and took up a glass-stoppered flask.

    The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters Dahlquist, Gordon 2006

  • She felt faintly embarrassed by the sheer profusion of things she had for putting in baths, but she was for some reason incapable of passing any chemist or herb shop without going in to be seduced by some glass-stoppered bottle of something blue or green or orange and oily that was supposed to restore the natural balance of some vague substance she didn't even know she was supposed to have in her pores.

    The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul Adams, Douglas, 1952- 1988

  • He came out with a small labelled glass-stoppered chemist's jar in one hand and a teaspoon in the other.

    For Kicks Francis, Dick, 1920- 1965

  • After closing the door he looked round to see what he could find, and there by the sink was a row of glass-stoppered bottles, evidently filled with water for washing them.

    That Scholarship Boy Emma Leslie

  • The paraphernalia required are not numerous or expensive, for they consist merely of three or four wide-mouthed glass-stoppered bottles in which to store your chemicals, and a few photographer's developing dishes

    The Book-Hunter at Home P. B. M. Allan

  • The vapor attacks corks, so that the solid requires to be preserved in glass-stoppered bottles.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 Various

  • Then, fetching a small glass-stoppered bottle from his room, he emptied the contents -- pure morphia -- into the wine and recorked the bottle.

    Mud and Khaki Sketches from Flanders and France Vernon Bartlett 1938

  • A double line of glass-stoppered bottles was drawn up upon the wall opposite the door, and the table was littered over with Bunsen burners, test-tubes, and retorts.

    The Sign of Four 1915

  • 'I remember,' Percy Benson said, 'there used to be a little grocer's shop down in Hawkenbury Street, where they sold mixed biscuits, with lots of pink and white and yellow sugar, and glass-stoppered ginger-beer.

    Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales Arthur Shearly Cripps 1910

  • 'But I don't know whether they keep ginger-beer in glass-stoppered bottles, or if they keep that particular sort of biscuits.

    Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales Arthur Shearly Cripps 1910

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