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Example sentences for "phial"

Lexicographically close words:
phenomene; phenomenology; phenomenon; phenyl; phenylhydrazine; phiale; phials; philanderer; philandering; philanthropic
  1. To add to our troubles Mother remembered a phial of brandy up stairs saved for Father’s use.

  2. We were afraid to throw the phial out, when we got it.

  3. Meredith said that Miss Sloane was dying from morphine, I put them in a phial and slipped that into my pocket.

  4. He took a small phial from his pocket, a tiny tube containing less than five minims of a clear colorless liquid.

  5. Then with a quick movement he poured the contents of the phial into the liquid in the glass.

  6. Slowly the Doctor proceeded with his task, until at last he was able to reach the phial with his hands.

  7. However, he did accomplish his purpose, and Mr. Barnes was amazed to see him at last clutch the phial with his two feet.

  8. With the utmost care the Doctor drew his feet slowly up, dragging the phial nearer and nearer, meanwhile crying out in a sort of hysteria: "It is mine!

  9. That question supposes that the tablets missing from the phial were administered to the patient.

  10. Once, as he moved his feet, the phial slipped from them and rolled away again.

  11. He handed up a phial containing four pellets, which was admitted in evidence, and identified by Miss Conlin.

  12. His laugh of joy had scarcely died away, before he uttered a most terrific shriek, and threw the phial from him, crying: "Empty!

  13. Was that the same phial which you brought to me?

  14. So the Anglo-Indian may throw away his ammonia phial and, arming himself with another of anti-venene and a hypodermic syringe, feel that he is safe against an accident which will never happen.

  15. He nodded with impressive gloom and took three tabloids from the phial he held in his hand.

  16. The white-faced youth stood on the further side of the passage, paused beneath a window by whose light he seemed to be examining a small phial held in his hand.

  17. You shall have your three guilders and a half, and your phial to boot, Mr Poots," replied he, as he rose from off the bed.

  18. Keep the glue in a phial closely stopped, and when it is to be used set the phial in boiling water.

  19. The phial is then filled up with the bleaching liquor, well shaken, and placed beside that one of the 12 already prepared which it most resembles in colour.

  20. The number on that phial expresses the strength of the sample under examination, in twelfths of a degree of Twaddell's hydrometer.

  21. Draughts possess the advantages of extreme convenience, and, from only one phial being opened at a time, of preserving the preparation better than when it is exposed to the air by the frequent removal of the cork.

  22. The phial may have been smashed on the sidewalk or thrown into some refuse barrel.

  23. One morning he came upon a phial in Mr. Leighton's room whose very appearance strangely affected him.

  24. If a druggist in the whole range of this great city had lately sold a phial of this poison to anyone answering the description given of these brothers, we would have heard from him before now.

  25. Then not liking to put the phial back, he thrust it into his vest-pocket, mouth up (the cork having slipped from his hand and rolled away in the darkness).

  26. Even after I had explained to her how he came by the phial of poison, and how it was through his agency it came to be in his father's house, no doubt came to mar her restored confidence in this her most cherished relative.

  27. Like the phial and the cork, it was kept isolated in a perfectly clean glass till this box could be procured, and, with this fact in mind, may I ask you to open the box and hand the pencil round among the jury?

  28. It was not till an hour had passed that I remembered that the phial had not been returned to the cabinet.

  29. That the search for the missing phial was likely to be a long-continued one soon became apparent to everyone.

  30. The phial which had held the deadly dose was found.

  31. Was there an empty phial or a piece of paper lying about on the study-table or on the floor when you went in?

  32. Then he put the phial away in a tea-cup and waited his opportunity.

  33. For if the phial was not to be found anywhere in the house, the necessary conclusion must be that it had been carried out of it by the one person known to have left it during the critical half-hour preceding Mr. Gillespie's death.

  34. That is doubtless why you fail to find the phial from which the poison was poured.

  35. I removed the stopper, and having no idea of the amount necessary to produce the desired result, poured out several tablespoonfuls, filling up the phial from the faucet at the rough sink in one corner of the room.

  36. My phial is at my rooms, on my dressing table in the boudoir.

  37. But the maid returned with the blue phial with the opal stopper and handed it to the young man, saying: "Why didn't monsieur stay in the salon?

  38. I said, "they have dropped the phial on the floor.

  39. He removed the cork from the phial as he spoke, and, rising, passed quickly to the bedside of the child.

  40. The Page 126 phial and lid were lying separate, and there was no sign of a relic.

  41. But in the sleep which the phial procured she sank far below such half-waking visitations, sank into depths of dreamless annihilation from which she woke each morning with an obliterated past.

  42. Her craving for the keen stimulant was forever conflicting with that other craving for sleep--the midnight craving which only the little phial in her hand could still.

  43. I was shamed to the conclusion that the phial with its blue liquid was something I had read of in the curious old books which my father had hidden away from me, and which, strange to say, I had never been able to find since his death.

  44. The phial was of singular shape, having a long slender neck rising from a round globe.

  45. Opening the chest, I found the old books which had been abstracted, and a small medicine-box, in which was the phial seen in my dream.

  46. I could scarcely close and bolt the door after the man had departed; as he brought in the chest, I had seen through the lid the phial with the blue liquid.

  47. In my dream there appeared to me my father, bearing in his left hand a plate of glass, and in his right a phial of bright blue liquid which he seemed to be pouring on the polished surface.

  48. He drew a phial from his doublet, and fixed his eyes upon it.

  49. He thrust his hand into his doublet, and drew from it slowly a small phial half filled with a yellow liquid, and held it before him with a shudder of disgust and horror.

  50. Now I will put the phial in his doublet--no, in the pocket of his girdle; it will be as easily found.

  51. He replaced the phial in his doublet, and said, calmly: "Why am I so terrified?

  52. The contents of the phial were poured into the gourd.

  53. The phial in his hand, however, gave token that he had not been dreaming.

  54. There, ever since that night of the Osiris performance, she had kept a small phial of poison.

  55. But even in her slumbers her hand still clutched the little phial of poison.

  56. The next instant something bright sparkled in her trembling fingers; it was the phial she had received from the old woman.

  57. She paid the price and hid the tiny phial in her wide belt.

  58. Phial of cachous, kissing comfits, in her satchel.

  59. He had a portfolio full of Celtic literature in one hand, in the other a phial marked Poison.

  60. Phial containing arsenic retrieved from body of Miss Barron which sent Seddon to the gallows.

  61. He has become painfully tiresome, has this man," thought Madame de Grangeville, as she put a phial of salts to her nose.

  62. He saw on the mantelpiece a phial filled with a liquid; he took it and offered it to Roncherolle.

  63. So whoso is minded to have the volume, let him address himself to achieve the treasure of Al-Shamardal[FN#270] and bring me the celestial planisphere and the Kohl phial and the seal ring and the sword.

  64. And she nodded towards the phial on the board.

  65. I poured from the phial into a little golden goblet.

  66. But now for something else; how did this little phial come into the hands of the dealer Hiram?

  67. To whom shall I give the phial when I have used the stuff in it?

  68. Go quickly into my room and bring me the blue phial out of my medicine-case and a cup of water.

  69. Then, at any rate, take the phial to use for a lotion when you return.

  70. She noticed that the cork of the phial was well worn.

  71. He opened the pocket-case and took out a phial of laudanum.

  72. He put the phial and the document in his father's writing into his breast pocket, and tucking the gray-haired notary under his arm, he left the room.

  73. I have filled the phial with water and a drop of aromatic myrrh.

  74. So presently he ceased work for a while and insisted that Frau Vorkel should take the phial in her own hand and inhale its contents once more, because it pleased him to try the power of the elixir.

  75. He inhaled the contents of the phial himself, in long breaths, staring for some time thoughtfully at the floor and then at the arches of the ceiling.

  76. At that moment there was an ominous crash on the floor, and a powerful odour filled the laboratory; the phial had slipped from the hands of the frightened woman.


  77. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "phial" 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