That fellow had been careless; there were dregs at the bottom of the decanter and he had got down to them!
He filled his glass, and pushed the decanter to Donal.
He had brought some biscuits and a little wine in the bottom of a decanter from the housekeeper's room: there was literally nothing in the larder, he said.
As he said this, Donal, half mechanically, filled a glass from the decanter his host had pushed towards him.
They sat on his left-hand side, Phineas Duge pushed the decanter of Burgundy toward them, and the cigars.
Norris Vine staggered up to his feet, and groped his way toward the sideboard, where a decanter of brandy was standing.
Always be very particular about showing round the decanter or bottle, the most innocent portion of the whole apparatus.
At the word of command, the handkerchief vanishes suddenly from the second decanter, which is not covered, and, on the cloth being removed from the first decanter by a spectator, the handkerchief is found inside.
The case holding the cards can either be made to fit in the neck of a decanter by means of a cork on the under side, or can be permanently fixed to a tall stand.
I prefer the decanter myself, as an opaque stand always causes suspicions of mechanical assistance to arise in the minds of the audience.
A servant trailed after them bearing a crystal decanter of wine and two silver goblets on a tray.
He seated himself easily, as he might with an equal, and when no servant came forward, he poured himself a glass of wine from thedecanter that waited on the carpet beside his bolster.
The prince assumed his seat in the center of the platform and ordered the servant to place the decanteron a small table by his side.
Hawksworth took a decanter and poured more wine into Arangbar's glass before replenishing his own.
Then one of the turbaned servants poured a large portion of the liquor from the decanter into a palm-leaf cup and offered it to Hawksworth.
The liquor from the pot was strained through muslin into a crystaldecanter and the earthen receptacle discarded.
A small table stood within reach of his hand, on which was a decanter containing wine, and a silver goblet.
A cut-glass decanter of vodka, which diffused a smell of orange-peel all over the room when it was poured out, was put on the table also.
Near the books there always stood a decanter of vodka, and a salted cucumber or a pickled apple lay beside it, not on a plate, but on the baize table-cloth.
Kistunov, revolted, nervously cracking his fingers and continually going to thedecanter of water.
In the late dusk his wife found him asleep in a long chair with an empty decanter beside him and heavy rugs dragged up to his chin.
He stopped abruptly and stared at the thick-bellied decanter before him.
Davis bounded on his chair, and glowered with a fearful stare at the speaker, who meanwhile drained the decanter into his glass with an unmoved serenity.
He advanced to the table, respectfully refilled his master's glass from the decanter of port, and retreated again.
Quest fetched a decanterand a glass from the sideboard, poured out some wine and held it to his lips.
He pushed the decanter on the table nearer to Rimmon, who poured out a drink and took it slowly.
Wickersham had been thinking hard during Plume's statement of the case, and what with his argument and an occasional application to the decanter of whiskey, he was beginning to yield.
Plume, who had been consoling himself with the companionship of a decanter of rye whiskey, was in a more jovial mood, which further irritated the other.
This was the subject of his conversation, now, with his agent, and he was making up his mind what to do, aided by more or less frequent applications to the decanter which stood between them.
On each of the six tables was a large decanter of red wine.
A moment he stood so, irresolute or intentionally deliberate; without apology or comment he poured a second glass of liquor even full from the red decanter and drank it in silence.
As he did so Armstrong arose swiftly and, all but gropingly, his hand sought the red decanter on the mantel.
Sherry from the decanter used by Lamson was handed to me by Butcher on the 14th.
The tin box with the two pills was handed to the police inspector by Mr. Bedbrook, and a decanter of sherry from the sitting-room, and the remainder of the sugar from the matron.
There was a great laugh at this, and Barend Van Zyl aforesaid made believe to withhold the decanter on the ground that its contents might impair the speaker's patriotism.
And then to cover her confusion she turned away to a cupboard, and, unlocking it, brought out a decanter of Boer brandy, which she placed upon the table.
So just send along that decanter that's at the other side of Barend Van Zyl's elbow, will you?
And having dragged out of a drawer a complete refit for his guest, whom he had marched straight into his own room, the genial Dutchman went out and reappeared in a moment with a decanter of excellent "dop" and glasses.
His perambulations were interrupted by the entrance of Lambart, a butler with a genius for his service, who bore on a silver tray a siphon of seltzer water, a decanter of Scotch whiskey and a pint bottle of fine champagne.
Instead of replying to Betty's question he measured the decanter with his eye, decided that it was a special occasion, and filled himself another glass.
A decanterof port and a couple of glasses stood at his elbow.
He bore a decanter of port, a glass, a slice of cake.
Ovington pushed the decanter and a glass towards him.
I took it that the English blood in his veins kept his nerves steady without obliging him to imitate Don Lazarillo's quest after courage in the contents of a decanter of wine.
A decanter half-full of sherry stood in the swing-tray.
And away she went with a jug, commonly called a decanter in that part of the north, in her hand.
Then he set thedecanter down and drew up a chair on the side of the table opposite Mason.
Then he went into another room and presently returned with a bundle of papers and a decanter of brandy.
The feast was interrupted by the Kolo--a young man performing sundry evolutions with a decanter of wine upon his head, looking all the while as clumsy as Heine's famous bear, Atta Troll.
Thanks, no," said Saul; and he proceeded to cut off the end of the cigar, while his companion took up and replaced the decanter stopper.
Here's old Denton," cried Doctor Lawrence, seizing the decanter and a fresh glass.
Pyotr Leontyitch filled his glass from the decanter with a trembling hand and drank it off hurriedly, greedily, with repulsion, then poured out a second glass and then a third.
His sword struck the farther edge of the table, smashed a decanter of wine and dropped to the floor.
Britton immediately turned his attention to one decanter which, in a most miraculous and extraordinary manner, preserved its position of perpendicularity amidst the universal wreck of every other article.
Drink,” he said, as he pushed a decanteracross the table to Albert.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "decanter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bottle; canteen; cruet; flask; jar; jug
