She should ascertain that her plate is in order, glasses free from smears, water-bottles and decanters the same, and everything ready on her tray, that she may be able to lay her cloth properly.
Decanters and water-jugs require still more tender treatment in cleaning, inasmuch as they are more costly to replace.
As it was, we felt very genteel with our two glasses apiece, and a dish of gooseberries at the top, of currants and biscuits at the sides, and two decanters at the bottom.
Crood, as Brent seated himself, waved a hand towards thedecanters on the table.
Behind their chairs a table was set out with decanters and glasses, a tobacco-jar and cigar-boxes: clearly he had interrupted a symposium of a friendly and social sort.
I carried two decanters of the port into the dining-room for Mr. Mallett, and got out port glasses from the sideboard, and after that I never went into the room again.
There were several kinds of wines in decanters upon the table; but two glasses of sherry sufficed me, though two such glasses of sherry I had never before drank.
The several dyes of wines in decantersblended with the brilliance of silver--or of what resembled silver--and other decorative details of flowers and fruit, and the square of the skylight framed a picturesquely festal scene.
It consisted of a large dish of meat, uncouth-looking pastry, and wine in decanters and bottles, accompanied by glasses and silver mugs, such as indicated other habits and tastes than those of modern Paris.
Glorious old convert, and firm old preacher of principle in the very den of the fierce lion, for decanters were at his elbow, and a friendly hand proffered the contents to his lips!
There was another little table kivered over with decanters and with a lot of them cider bottles that I've told you about, standing on it; but I kept purty clear of that, I can tell you.
We followed arter, and the two niggers arter us with the cider and wine decanters in their hands.
With that she went to a table that had some decantersand wine-glasses on it, besides a loaf of cake as white as drifted snow.
The wine decanters blazed out redder and redder, and the cider-bottles popped and foamed like ginger-beer in the summer time.
Two or three little stun tables stood out in the middle of the room; one on 'em was kivered with decanters and wine glasses, and some of the books lay all kivered with gold, a glittering and shining on the carpet.
At this juncture Marigold came in with thedecanters and syphons.
He threw his half-smoked cigarette into the fire-place and walked over to the sideboard, where stood decanters and syphon.
Meanwhile Marigold had brought indecanters and syphons.
When the evening was pretty far spent, and a tray of glasses and decanters came in, Steerforth promised, over the fire, that he would seriously think of going down into the country with me.
Agnes set the glasses and decanters in the same corner, and Mr. Wickfield sat down to drink, and drank a good deal.
There on the immense mahogany sideboard stood bottles and decanters galore, and now up came the middle of salmon with a piquant sauce accompanying it!
The water was soon heated, the table was covered with bottles, decanters and glasses of the costliest manufacture.
The person here so coarsely alluded to, now made her appearance again, bearing a basket containing a number of bottles, decanters and drinking glasses.
Ah, your old decanters and those coasters could tell some queer tales.
This final survey appeared to be entirely to his liking, for with a smile of satisfaction he turned to inspect a row of decanters on the mantel.
During the chat the servant had placed before the host a half-dozen quart decanters filled with wine of various hues and depths of color.
A table was then brought out into the court before the house, on which decanters and glasses, with a burning liquor obtained from the Portuguese, were placed.
Before leaving the library for the night I placed in a conspicuous position in the room a small table, on which was a tray holding two decanters partially filled with wine, in the one red and in the other white.
When George William is old enough to go about the house by himself," she said, "those decanters must not be left exposed upon the table.
A portion of my narcotic preparation was thoroughly mixed with the contents of each of the decanters in such proportions that a glass of the wine would be sufficient to produce the desired effect.
It was one of the most surprising feats of nature's alchemy that a liquid so brown as that contained in the decanters on Patrick's sideboard should be able to produce and maintain anything so supernaturally red as Patrick's nose.
At last the cloth was off the well-waxed mahogany table, a fresh pair of decanters set before the hostess, and each guest in turn toasted.
Overhead, in swinging racks, were glasses and decantersof whiskey and some kind of white wine.
Kitchell, far gone in whiskey, stood on the house issuing his orders, drinking from one of the decanters he had brought up with him.
Brandy and whiskey were placed on the tables in decanters to be drunk by the guests without additional charge therefor.
They broke hundreds of pipes and all the decanters in the house, and wound up by burning all their funeral scarfs in a heap in the fireplace.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "decanters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
