This warmed us a little, though I do not think that a bottleful would have raised our spirits.
"Queen Sheba's Ring"
H. Rider Haggard
Were a bottleful of concentrated miasma, such as we inhale herein, collected, what a deadly poison, instantaneous in its action, undiscoverable in its properties, would it be!
"How I Found Livingstone"
Sir Henry M. Stanley
Nettleship reluctantly served out a double allowance, leaving scarcely a quarter of a bottleful,-the other had before been exhausted.
"Paddy Finn"
W. H. G. Kingston