"Carafe" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... beautiful, firm-wristed wrench, extracted the pips with one deft circuit of the spoon, and poured rock candy into the acid. Over this he dropped in silence a measured amount from a squat foreign bottle at his elbow and filled the glass from a carafe of distilled water. ...
— The Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon • Josephine Daskam Bacon
... before they sailed; and as the jolly-boat came alongside again, it was seen that he had the precious packet in his hand. He sprang up the accommodation-ladder and disappeared aft without a word to where the captain was sitting by a small table with a carafe and glass before him, mopping his ...
— The Pilot and his Wife • Jonas Lie
... to sit down, tore her handkerchief into strips, soaked them in water from a carafe, and bandaged up the wounds in a ...
— The Hippodrome • Rachel Hayward
... table stood a carafe with water. He filled a large glass, and drank it at one draught; this made him feel better, and he went out. But, once outside, he was so overcome, that he lost his way in the long passages and interminable staircases, in spite of the directions ...
— The Clique of Gold • Emile Gaboriau
... replacing the water-carafe which in the excitement of the moment he had clasped to his bosom; "it's the waves which are rising to the occasion—that's all." ...
— The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary • Anne Warner
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