Lord Summerhays takes in the situation, and quickly takes the punchbowl from the sideboard and offers it to Johnny.
"Misalliance"
George Bernard Shaw
It was, in truth, Gawtrey's custom when Birnie retired for the night, to rub his hands, bring out the punchbowl, squeeze the lemons, and while Philip, stretched on the sofa, listened to him, between sleep and waking, to talk on for the hour together, often till daybreak, with that bizarre mixture of knavery and feeling, drollery and sentiment, which made the dangerous charm of his society.
"Night and Morning, Volume 3"
Edward Bulwer Lytton
In the castle, over the smoking punchbowl, by the fireside, I was the hero of the hour.
"Weird Tales. Vol. I"
E. T. A. Hoffmann