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Thus, the sun being well and truly over the yardarm, and with myself in a state of cleanliness to match the house, I had taken a tumbler out of the cupboard and reached for the bottle of gin … two generous gins and tonic later, I felt less stressed, the alcohol casting a welcome numbness over my violin-strung emotions
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table and cleared away the Marchese’s spent tumbler
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As his wife surfaced from beneath the rolling waves of slumber she groaned and mumbled, feeling for a tumbler full of bathroom tap water that should have been on her bedside table
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The curtains are still open, the table lamp is still on, and half a tumbler of Irish sits on the occasional table beside the chair
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A bottle of brandy and a half full tumbler are on one of the yellow Royal Doulton place mats
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A one off, you know,” smiling broadly he refilled his guest's tumbler
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By the time he made it to the bathroom, he could already hear Ronnie fiddling with the lock of the apartment door, like a metallic mouse building a nest inside the tumbler
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heavy glass tumbler, savoring the calm that now suffused him, mildly amused by how removed he
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Tony chilled in his recliner nursing an Old Crow tumbler
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A small tumbler of clear liquid was placed before him, and Colling steeled himself, then tipped it up and drank it in one gulp
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I had a strange sort of “out of body experience” seeing my arm and hand holding the tumbler of straight whiskey on the rocks as not being attached to me
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1660 matches (one of which was this fantastic quote on tumbler: I
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water tumbler from the back counter, and returned to the
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his usual 12-oz tumbler of milk
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Gun Moll poured a three-finger slug into a chipped tumbler and handed it to me
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Where would she get a truck?” I lifted my tumbler and took a little sip
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’ He searched in a cupboard, produced a first-aid box, dispensed two tablets, filled a tumbler from the sink in the attached washroom and presented it to Robert, who downed pills and water gratefully
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reason to move or to overturn a tumbler standing upon the table, it is easy
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It is also possible to overturn that tumbler by mere force of will without physical contact; indeed one of the
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Pouring out her water into the clean tumbler he’d brought, she said, “You always taught me to be objective, right? Then being objective…look, there’s a lot of speculation in it, Gary, if this happens, if that happens
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The main attraction was a natural copy of the home of the average American worker with moquette, TV in the living-room, two bathrooms, a centralized heating plant and a kitchen with washing machine, dry tumbler and refrigerator
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Richard tossed back the last of his scotch and set his empty tumbler on the bar
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With nowhere to go and nowhere to be, I refilled my tumbler from the bar and took the bottle of 12-year old Jameson with me, down the stone steps to the infinity pool and across the lawn to the beach access path
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I stood, grabbed the heavy tumbler and sent in crashing into the back wall of the cabana, and walked off towards the sound of the crashing waves
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empty tumbler before she could object
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tautness that the tumbler shattered and daiquiri oozed all
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one of the cavemen looking back at the cave and a tumbler clicked in my head: it was about knowing
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Somewhere in my reading, another tumbler clicked
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I put my wrench into the keyhole, slid my needle inside, and felt the breaking of the first tumbler as far back as the needle could reach
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THE BUMBLEBEE: A bumblebee, if dropped into an open tumbler, will be there until it
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posited his cut glass tumbler of whisky
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tumbler of whiskey in front of him
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Fill the tumbler with marbles
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Now you see a tumbler full of
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For arguments sake, instead of putting water into the tumbler with marbles ,
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When WE filled our glass tumbler with marbles ,we just filled the tumbler, with
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He smiled and handed Adrian a tumbler filled with yellow liquid
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Mitch caught on quickly and, wielding a pick and a spring, he guided into place the tumbler pins of the most basic lock
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Maguire, who was nursing his drink close to his chest and had seemed interested in anything away from the table while his wife and I exchanged pleasantries, gently placed his tumbler on the glass topped table
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Shamir went to the table and poured bourbon into a tumbler
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The Confederate President gulped down the entire contents of the glass and held the empty tumbler out to Shamir
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She could hear the tumbler spin on a large steel safe, and then the creak of the safe door hinges
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"So I think," said Sancho; "but now tell me, who was the first tumbler in the world?"
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The first tumbler in the world, you must know, was Lucifer, when they cast or pitched him out of heaven; for he came tumbling into the bottomless pit
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Often, when wiping the dishes, she would stand in bewilderment and chagrin because she had pulled in two halves a cup or a tumbler
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While saying this he took a pint bottle of brandy from the dresser, and poured some into a tumbler
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Cathy began searching for some water; she lighted on a pitcher in the dresser, filled a tumbler, and brought it
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Pinocchio looked at the tumbler, made a wry face, and then asked
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Pinocchio took the tumbler unwillingly in his hand and put the point of his nose to it: he then approached it to his lips: he then again put his nose to it, and at last said:
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The Fairy then, with all the patience of a good mamma, put another lump of sugar in his mouth, and again presented the tumbler to him
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And, taking the tumbler in both hands, he emptied it at a gulp
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The puppet, who felt much mortified at these words, did not answer; but, taking his tumbler of milk, still quite warm, he returned to the hut
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And from that day for more than five months he continued to get up at daybreak every morning to go and turn the pumping machine, to earn the tumbler of milk that was of such benefit to his father in his bad state of health
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Now, I come to the cruel part of the story,—merely breaking off, my dear Handel, to remark that a dinner-napkin will not go into a tumbler
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Why I was trying to pack mine into my tumbler, I am wholly unable to say
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A pallid suetfaced young man polished his tumbler knife fork and spoon with his napkin
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Gob, he had his mouth half way down the tumbler already
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Florry follows, spilling water from her tilted tumbler
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I sucked on the ice in my tumbler of soda one cube at a time, pondering this information
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“I can’t even picture it,” I said as I shook the ice in my tumbler
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In each of the head bedposts, just above where the bedsteads are inserted into them, there was a small drawer, so artfully adapted to the mouldings of the timber-work, that it might have escaped even the most curious search: which drawers were easily opened or shut by the touch of a spring, and were fitted each with a shallow glass tumbler, full of a prepared fluid blood, in which lay soaked, for
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A waiter walked into Olsen’s view, replaced his empty glass with a new tumbler of Woodford Reserve
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But although it behoved me to sink down with the rest, I was but little hurt: on the contary, I had a good laugh in my sleeve at the time; and afterwards, many a merry tumbler of toddy with my brethren, when they had recovered from their discomfiture
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He rubbed his chest with the hand that wasn’t holding the tumbler of alcohol
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“Of course,” he said, jumping to his feet, straightening his tie, and placing his tumbler on a shelf
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The colonel returned to the table, went out again onto the steps with a tumbler in his hand, and proposed the toast, ‘To the health of our former comrade, the gallant general, Prince Serpuhovskoy
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' When the tray arrived he slopped gin and vermouth into a tumbler and carried it out of the room with him
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Or maybe it was just the faceted perfection of his speech, which he must have turned over in his head for days, like a rock tumbler with a particularly obdurate chunk of rock
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She was gone, to the end of the bar, and she was nosing into the bartender’s line of vision with a big help me smile, a girl used to making her presence known, and then she was back with a Scotch in an actual big-boy tumbler
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He picked up his tumbler and grimaced before taking a swig
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The turning music tumbler was still exposed because the base of the box hadn’t been put in yet
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’ he concluded, drinking a tumbler of wine with dignity and
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He brought in a opened his eyes, moved to the table, filled a tumbler with tea for himself and one for the beardless old man to whom he passed it
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There were only three tumblers, the water was so muddy that one could not make out whether the tea was strong or weak, and the samovar held only six tumblers of water, but this made it all the pleasanter to take turns in order of seniority to receive one’s tumbler from Mary Hendrikhovna’s plump little hands with their short and not overclean nails
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Rostov received his tumbler, and adding some rum to it asked Mary Hendrikhovna to stir it
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When her husband took his place she concluded, from the rapid manner in which after taking up his table napkin he pushed back the tumbler and wineglass standing before him, that he was out of humor, as was sometimes the case when he came in to dinner straight from the farm- especially before the soup
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He came back with a full tumbler of vodka and found me sitting in the garden taking deep breaths of good salt air, trying to see the stars, but there was too much fog moving in over the land
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A waitress instantly placed before him a small plate of salmon with no sauce and a tumbler of red wine
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Water rushed into a tumbler
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I reached out the whisky bottle without getting up, poured half a tumbler, smelled it, and poured it back in the bottle
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"The sea was calm—calm as the water in a tumbler
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It is one of these cases—but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are cigars in the box
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Even in the same sub-breed, as in that of the short-faced tumbler, it is notoriously difficult to breed nearly perfect birds, many departing widely from the standard
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In the long run selection gains the day, and we do not expect to fail so completely as to breed a bird as coarse as a common tumbler pigeon from a good short-faced strain
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In tumbler pigeons, though some of the subvarieties differ in the important character of the length of the beak, yet all are kept together from having the common habit of tumbling; but the short-faced breed has nearly or quite lost this habit; nevertheless, without any thought on the subject, these tumblers are kept in the same group, because allied in blood and alike in some other respects
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But there was one remarkable exception to this rule, for the young of the short-faced tumbler differed from the young of the wild rock-pigeon, and of the other breeds, in almost exactly the same proportions as in the adult stage
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But the case of the short-faced tumbler, which when twelve hours old possessed its proper characters, proves that this is not the universal rule; for here the characteristic differences must either have appeared at an earlier period than usual, or, if not so, the differences must have been inherited, not at a corresponding, but at an earlier age
