"Oh, Miss Meeke," said Elva, taking up the thread of the discourse, "when we finished playing the duet, she there on the sofa asked for a glass of wine, and Wynnette and I went ourselves to get it for her, and we went into the dining room, where the beautiful wedding table is set out and all the wines in cut-glass decanters on the sideboard.
"Her Mother's Secret"
Emma D. E. N. Southworth
My dears, you should never meddle with the decanters.
"Her Mother's Secret"
Emma D. E. N. Southworth
"Gentlemen, pray-pray, pass the decanters," he cried.
"The Master of the Ceremonies"
George Manville Fenn