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  • Then I'd sit there in the flickering darkness with a milk-bottle in one hand and my son in the crook of my arm, trying to draw out the feed for as long as possible, so I could keep watching.

    Michael Jordan by Benjamin Markovitz 2011

  • I found it very hard not to be very ill, but my gulliver was aching shocking and my rot was so dry that I had to take a skorry swig from the milk-bottle on the table, so that this Joe said: "Filthy piggish manners."

    Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010

  • What was ittying on was that this starry ptitsa, very grey in the voloss and with a very liny like litso, was pouring the old moloko from a milk-bottle into saucers and then setting these saucers down on the floor, so you could tell there were plenty of mewing kots and koshkas writhing about down there.

    Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010

  • The cheap hydroelectricity provided by the Columbia River, which once split apart aluminium oxide in order to supply the world with soft-drinks cans and milk-bottle tops, is now being used to shuffle and store masses of information.

    Cool it! « Isegoria 2008

  • Hundreds of birds had learned the milk-bottle trick.

    INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009

  • Hundreds of birds had learned the milk-bottle trick.

    INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009

  • Fill one tin with plastic milk-bottle caps, another with metal baby-food jar lids, a third with small wooden blocks, and so on.

    The Toddler's Busy Book Trish Kuffner 2008

  • Variety of objects: plastic magnetic letters, baby-food jar lids, plastic milk-bottle caps, small blocks, and so on

    The Toddler's Busy Book Trish Kuffner 2008

  • Below a film of algae, underwater cameras revealed metal receptacles -- they looked like milk-bottle baskets -- at the bottom of the pool containing spent nuclear fuel rods that could be reprocessed to produce weapons-grade plutonium.

    'We Are A Nuclear Power' 2007

  • Magnified by his milk-bottle glasses, his blue irises stared right into my soul.

    Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007

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