quart-bottle

He now proceeded to force open the locker, in the hope of finding them something that might be serviceable to us; but its entire contents consisted of a coil of fine rope, some pieces of rope-yarn, an empty quart-bottle, and an old and battered hatchet-head.

The Island Home Richard Archer

_Tokay_ is at two _livres_ for a small glass, of which a quart-bottle may contain about fifteen.

A Trip to Paris in July and August 1792 Richard Twiss

John opened a cupboard door, and producing a black quart-bottle, assured

The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 Various

He had brought with him a quart-bottle of delicious, fresh milk, and

The Rich Little Poor Boy Eleanor Gates 1913

In a postscript he blazes into amorous enthusiasm and exclaims, "Write your dear Olly!" and in the bottom left-hand corner, within a sort of fairy circle, about the size of the orifice of a quart-bottle neck, appeared the gushing invitation,

Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures. Abraham H. Hummel 1887

This document covers more than nine pages; and, after all, omits the only fact of the least consequence, viz., that several missiles were thrown by the rioters into the vice-regal box, and amongst them a quart-bottle, which barely missed his excellency's temples.

Note Book of an English Opium-Eater Thomas De Quincey 1822

What a pity it is, "he added, in a lower tone, to his neighbor --" what a pity a quart-bottle won't hold a quart; but I'll bring it before the House one of these days. "

Charles O'Malley — Volume 1 Charles James Lever 1839