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Example sentences for "empty bottle"

  • An empty bottle; an university joke, gentlemen commoners not being deemed over full of learning.

  • An empty bottle: so called at the university of Cambridge, where fellow commoners are not in general considered as over full of learning.

  • An empty bottle: marine officers being held useless by the seamen.

  • At Oxford an empty bottle is called a gentleman commoner for the same reason.

  • But," said the other, dazed, "I meant an empty bottle.

  • Who ever heard of a man looking for an empty bottle?

  • An empty bottle is also termed a “marine, or marine recruit.

  • The King himself, too drunk to stand, squatted upon the ground with an empty bottle by his side.

  • Trent looked at the half-empty bottle by his side and turned savagely to Da Souza.

  • By his side stood a man with a native knife dancing around and singing--all through the place were sounds of wailing and lamentation, and in front of his hut the King was lying, with an empty bottle by his side, drunk and motionless.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    absolutely speaking; both chief; cure them; dead language; empty bottle; empty chair; empty house; empty space; empty stomach; fared forth; free citizens; free fall; geographical miles; hearken unto; here because; hold upon; mile walk; nine days; shed abroad; son oeuvre; strong line; these little; trade winds; two large octavo volumes; vascular bundle; well qualified