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...Shall we take our rest again here, reader, and pull out our wine flask for the other? May I offer you my final confession? May I make you the last promise I am certain to keep?...

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...On the evening before his marriage, Sinclair loses a precious curiosity from his collection: an amethyst box, containing a tiny flask of deadly poison. He suspects that this poison is in the possession of either his betrothed or her cousin, the girl his best friend Worthington loves. Turning to Worthington for help, they try to recover the box before ...

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... leads to the dissecting room. There is a table with numerous test-tubes, flasks, burners, chemicals; a small thermostat and a microscope with a gl...

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... replied easily, reaching inside his tuxedo jacket and withdrawing a silver flask. “Share a drink with me.” Congressman Turner’s aide tipped the fl... ...to Cade’s ire with his smart-assed remarks. Micah sipped straight from the flask. “You’ve had more than thirty-six hours to think about our propo... ...an thirty-six hours to think about our proposal, Cade.” Micah replaced the flask and brought out a cigarette. “It’s time to make a decision.” Hone...

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...into a warm bed before she catches her death from the cold.’ The Scotsman soon reappeared with a flask and a pannikin, which he placed against her ...

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...up, plac- ing a hand on her forehead. “I just need some water.” Alaj reached down for the flask of water they had brought with them and gave it to h...

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... won't let him go without clothes. She tells her attendants not to be afraid, and to wash the stranger in the river. They give him clothes and an oil flask. He asks them to go away so he can bathe. Odysseus,washed and dressed, looks like a god. Nausicaa says she would like someone like him to be her husband. She tells her attendants to give him food and drink. Then Nausica...

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...nd. Angus slid from Jax, then reached into his tunic and pulled out a silver flask. Her eyebrows rose as he uncorked the flask. “Yes. Tis Fire and Ice... ...r scorched throat. Angus propped Delilah’s head up with his arm and held the flask to the girl’s lips. Delilah moaned, then 38 The Emerald Dagger gas... ...force of her coughing. “Water,” Kelsey ordered. The dwarf withdrew another flask, unscrewed the lid, and handed it to Kelsey. She grabbed it from hi... ...ad stopped coughing, but tears streamed down her face as she sipped from the flask. Then cough- ing ripped through her again, and the water erupted fr... ...est. Delilah’s gaze pleaded for forgiveness as she took another sip from the flask. This one she got down and the coughing subsided. With a heartfelt ... ...he coughing subsided. With a heartfelt sigh, she drank again. She pushed the flask away and wiped her mouth. “Dragons,” she said, with chattering teet... ...lier - give it to me. It will disinfect my hands.” The dwarf handed over the flask of Fire and Ice. “Oh, God,” Regan moaned. “I have to push.” “Get th... ... put her head back and screamed. “Pour this on my hands.” Delilah handed the flask to Kelsey. Shaking the liquid from her hands, the girl knelt in fro... ...n. “Perhaps it is because both you and Peter have the Power.” He spotted his flask where Delilah had set it aside and picked it up. With a salute, fir...

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...why we brought this bit of courage to fortify you.” Peter withdrew a silver flask from his inside coat pocket and patted it affectionately. “Just t... ... you. You’ll break her heart if you refuse.” There was no avoiding the flask Peter thrust at him. Daniel accepted it gingerly, grasping it with... ...t case, I capitulate. I’ve no energy to battle those odds.” Daniel put the flask to his lips, closed his eyes, and tilted his head back. The conte... ...ad not been since the fire. “All of it.” Peter tapped the bottom of the flask with his fingertip until Daniel tilted it to his mouth again. Cul... ...til they scream, even when a man’s life is at stake?” Plunkett slipped the flask from his back pocket as he always got around to doing on his visits... ... Plunkett took a swig, then swiped the rim with his sleeve and passed the flask to Daniel. “Do ye t’ink a wife would be after payin’ for it, even... ...racle they’re denyin’ us. It’s cured you right enough.” They passed the flask back and forth a few more times until Plunkett emptied it. With hi... ...zart’s Requiem, Plunkett listened, too stunned to remember to draw upon his flask. When Daniel finished, Tighe kissed and corked the poteen and pre...

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...esensitized to it. “We laugh that you search airline passengers for flasks of water but you allow unlimited guns, and overlook the 20,000 year...

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...mble from the hut before she whispered, "I am too used to seeing him with a flask in his hand and laughter on his lips." Ila nodded. "Several Masar... ...shed wood, sipping ale and watching. At one end a man sprawled, cradling a flask in his hand beside a half- empty bag of the brown powder. His breec... ...half- empty bag of the brown powder. His breeches were untied. He raised the flask dreamily to his lips and took a deep draught, moaning as his expos...

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...ings, matches, and maybe a carton of cigarettes, some cigars, or a whisky flask or two. A large horseshoe desk dominates the room. From its center...

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...ings, matches, and maybe a carton of cigarettes, some cigars, or a whisky flask or two. A large horseshoe desk dominates the room. From its center t...

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... turns by the monks while sprinkling some sacred water from a small wooden flask on the ground. In Ban Mae Kong Nya the ceremonies are now held indoor...

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...aped unhurt from the affray, found their spirits a cup too low, and kept the flask moving from noon till night. The peaceful brethren, unused to the t... ...eins. He that comes to take them shall first serve me as the friar serves my flasks of canary: he shall drain me dry as hay. Am I not disparaged? Am I... ...his hand to the friar, and said, “Sing on, in God’s name, and crack away the flasks till your voice swims in canary.” Then turning to Sir Ralph, he sa... ... had been a true pilgrim from Palestine. The husband produced some recondite flasks of wine, which were laid by in a binn consecrated to Robin, whose ... ... T. L. Peacock 74 band heaped logs upon the fire: Robin broached another flask; and Marian filled the baron’s cup, and sweetened Robin’s by touchi... ...y from being parted from his son, who had long been the bet ter half of his flask and pasty. The arrival of our visitors Maid Marian T. L. Peacock... ...s it you indeed, ye scapegraces? Ye are well disguised: I knew ye not, by my flask. Robin, jolly Robin, he buys a jest dearly that pays for it with a ... ... But here is balm for all bruises, outward and inward. (The friar produced a flask of canary.) Wash thy wound twice and thy throat thrice with this so... ...nd that this river is Styx.” “I will go with you, friar,” said Robin. “By my flask,” said the friar, “but you shall not.” “Then I will,” said Marian. ...

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...grope after the main body. Frequent and deep counsel he took with a trusty flask suspended at his belt. It was no pleasant reflection that the rain wo... ... watch, and think for thee as for a dog. Be thou as faithful!’ He handed a flask to the youth, and bade him drink. Fa- rina drank and felt richly invi... ...ingered on a fretting heel. She was quickly under his elbow again with two flasks leaning from her bo- som to her arms. ‘There! I seldom meet a man li... ...said!—Eh? Liebfrauenmilch? Ho, ho! a rare bleed!’ Striking the neck of the flask on a wheel, the trooper ap- plied it to his mouth, and ceased not dee... ... addressing himself to an inspection of the wain’s contents, when a second flask lifted in air, gave a sop to his curiosity. This flask suffered the f... ...n to visit Gottlieb and Margarita, each of whom he furnished with a flash,[flask ?] curiously shaped, and charged with a distillation. As the head of ... ... consent from man or maid without a seal.’ Farina tossed the contents of a flask in air, and saluted his beloved on the lips. This scene took place ne... ... the Foulest descended to his kingdom below. Men now pervaded Cologne with flasks, purifying the at- mosphere. It became possible to breathe freely. ‘... ...one morning and beheld warehouses the exact pattern of his own, displaying flasks shaped even as his own, and a Farina to right and left of him. In a ...

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...h it. Within are shabby shelves, ranged round with old decanters, bottles, flasks; and in those jaws of swift destruction, like another cursed Jonah (... ...—say your last. Luck to ye, Starbuck—luck to ye, Mr. Stubb—luck to ye, Mr. Flask—good-bye and good luck to ye all—and this day three years I’ll have a... .... Stubb; it was a little leaky, I thought. If ye touch at the islands, Mr. Flask, beware of fornication. Good-bye, good-bye! Don’t keep that cheese to... ...ke might have operated as a sort of disinfecting agent. The third mate was Flask, a native of Tisbury, in Martha’s Vineyard. A short, stout, ruddy you... ...wrought nails and cut nails; so mankind may be similarly di- vided. Little Flask was one of the wrought ones; made to clinch tight and last long. They... ...ssions of those battering seas. Now these three mates—Starbuck, Stubb, and Flask, were momentous men. They it was who by universal prescription comman... ...s to tell, this imperial negro, Ahasuerus Daggoo, was the Squire of little Flask, who looked like a chess-man beside him. As for the residue of the Pe... ...ks. 131 Herman Melville CHAPTER 31 Queen Mab N EXT MORNING Stubb accosted Flask. “Such a queer dream, King-Post, I never had. You know the old man’s ... ... like a blazing fool, kept kicking at it. But what was still more curious, Flask—you know how curious all dreams are—through all this rage that I was ...

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...ing. The passage was encumbered with rope ladders, knotted cords, torches, flasks, grappling irons, alpenstocks, pickaxes, iron shod sticks, enough to... ...ption. Spirits were the only liquid, and of water we took none; but we had flasks, and my uncle depended on springs from which to fill them. Whatever ... ...ed to our luggage a leathern bottle full of water, which, with that in our flasks, would ensure us a supply of water for eight days. It was nine in th... ...y ate, and I swallowed down the few drops of water rationed out to me. One flask half full was all we had left to slake the thirst of three men. After... ...ld them and looked at me. His eyes were moistened. Then I saw him take the flask that was hanging at his side. To my amazement he placed it on my lips... ... as if I could not understand him. “Drink!” he said again. And raising his flask he emptied it every drop between my lips. 101 Jules Verne Oh! infini... ...u hear!—the last. I had kept it as a precious treasure at the bottom of my flask. Twenty times, nay, a hundred times, have I fought against a frightfu... ...ail.” “Never mind, we cannot be sure; let us fill the water bottle and our flasks, and then stop up the opening.” My advice was followed so far as get... ...oming out at all?” “Because—” Well, I could not assign a reason. “When our flasks are empty, where shall we fill them again? Can we tell that?” No; th...

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...k a revolver, a little spirit- lamp and pan, a lantern and some halfpenny candles, a jack- knife and a large leather flask. The main cargo consisted o... ... myself with the pack for Modestine, and take the following items for my own share of the por- tage: a cane, a quart-flask, a pilot-jacket heavily wei... ...help attributing my senti- ments to the husband, and sought to conciliate his tolerance with a cup of brandy from my flask. He told me that he was a c... ...he insurgents. And in the morning, although not a shot had been fired, there would not be a round of powder in their flasks. Where was it gone? All ha...

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...r, just as Don Juan himself glanced again and again from his father to the flask. The lamplight flickered. There was a deep silence; the viol was mute... ...n mechanism within him that we call a heart. Don Juan the sceptic shut the flask again in the secret drawer in the Gothic table—he meant to run no mor... ... as he was in his scepticism, felt a tremor as he opened the magic crystal flask. When he stood over that face, he was trembling so violently, that he... ...id of the corpse. The eye unclosed …. “Aha!” said Don Juan. He gripped the flask tightly, as we clutch in dreams the branch from which we hang suspend... ...ment of my death and the time of my anointing with the holy oil, gave me a flask that contains a little of the holy water that once issued from the ro... ...ed to reveal the mys- tery in articulo mortis to my son. You will find the flask in a drawer in that Gothic table that always stands by the head of th... ...e that always stands by the head of the bed …. The precious little crystal flask may be of use yet again for you, dearest Felipe. Will you swear to me... ...ed in a terrible 22 The Elixir of Life voice, “Be careful not to drop the flask.” Then he breathed his last gently in the arms of his son, and his so... ... held him in a tight grip—it was his father’s hand! He shrieked aloud; the flask dropped from his hand and broke in pieces. The liquid evaporated; the...