She had had a season in Dublin, and who knows how many in
Cork, Killarney, and Mallow?
Here the
cork is evidently taken out again, and replaced again.
The visitor first held the bottle against the light of the candle, and next examined the top of the
cork.
Dissatisfied with the pacific aspect of a face which had no more than the faintest hint of flaxen eyebrow, together with a pair of amiable blue-gray eyes and round pink cheeks that refused to look formidable, let him frown as he would before the looking-glass (Philip had once told him of a man who had a horseshoe frown, and Tom had tried with all his frowning might to make a horseshoe on his forehead), he had had recourse to that unfailing source of the terrible, burnt
cork, and had made himself a pair of black eyebrows that met in a satisfactory manner over his nose, and were matched by a less carefully adjusted blackness about the chin.
And besides, there were no champagne
corks among the shells.
at sight of which Ilya Rostov blushed with self-conscious pleasure), the footmen began popping
corks and filling the champagne glasses.
A second later they were rolling, splashing and bobbing about in the water, the horse struggling frantically to find a rest for its feet and its riders being first plunged beneath the rapid current and then floating upon the surface like
corks.
We will suppose," I read, "that a small bundle of connected corks was launched in a sluggish current upon a voyage across the Atlantic.
Your readers will possibly comprehend that the Atlantic, in this parable, stands for the mighty ocean of ether through which we drift and that the bunch of corks represents the little and obscure planetary system to which we belong.
Raffles, however, had seen the place by daylight, and had come prepared for the special obstacles; already he was reaching up and putting champagne
corks on the spikes, and in another moment he had his folded covert-coat across the
corks.
Godfrey to say, between the
corks and the carving) meant love.
Then, stepping into his extended hand, and condescending to be held out at arm's length, he gave vent to a succession of sounds, not unlike the drawing of some eight or ten dozen of long
corks, and again asserted his brimstone birth and parentage with great distinctness.
