pocket-flasks

From time to time a lull in the storm would occur, and then peals of laughter would come across the intervening waters; and looking up, the irritated sportsmen generally beheld a tableau of inverted pocket-flasks, and feats of strength with a rapidly lightening ale-keg.

Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall

Four or five privates lay here fast asleep, and the bar-room was occupied by a bevy of young officers, who were emptying the contents of sundry pocket-flasks.

Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War George Alfred Townsend 1877

Six fine dressing-cases arrived, and were hung upon the walls; four smelling-bottles -- one for each nostril; bed-socks, rigolettes, afghans, lunch-baskets, pocket-flasks, guide-books, needle-cases, bouquets in stacks, and a great cake with their names on top in red and blue letters three inches long.

Shawl-Straps A Second Series of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag Louisa May Alcott 1860

Master Thief set off to a shop, and bought brandy enough to fill two pocket-flasks, and into one of them he put a sleepy drink, but into the other only brandy.

Popular Tales from the Norse George Webbe Dasent 1856

They transgressed, without fear or scruple, the rules of behavior that were binding on all others; smoking tobacco under the beadle's very nose, although each whiff would have cost a townsman a shilling; and quaffing, at their pleasure, draughts of wine or aqua-vitæ from pocket-flasks, which they freely tendered to the gaping crowd around them.

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834