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Bottle in sentence

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The Constitution they drafted was meant not only to manage national economic policy and defense, but also to put the democratic genie back into its bottle.
This translates as “The bottle peddler is here!
To address it, we should create the right incentives, as the bottle peddlers in my part of the city did two decades ago.
The genie of meritocracy cannot be put back in the bottle.
At best, one can purchase a bottle of kosher wine or a mug with the iconic photo of Albert Einstein sticking out his tongue.
By the time the bill was formally withdrawn, months had passed, and it was too late to return the genie to the bottle.
'There is a little bottle in my handbag,' she went on, turning to her husband.
When Levin returned with the bottle he found the invalid arranged in bed and everything around him quite altered.
There was no trace of dust left about; there was a mat beside the bed; on the table medicine bottles and a bottle of water were neatly placed, also a pile of folded linen which would be required later, and Kitty's embroidery.
Not referring to what he had believed half an hour previously, as though he were ashamed to remember it, Nicholas told them to give him a bottle of iodine covered with perforated paper for inhaling.
Now, in this I do believe,' he said, clutching the bottle with his bony hand and beginning to inhale from it.
Never mind!' shouted a merry, bearded, red-faced peasant; showing a row of white teeth and holding aloft a greenish vodka bottle that glittered in the sunshine.
While they were still at their soup Gagin ordered a bottle of champagne and had four glasses filled.
Levin did not refuse the proffered wine, and ordered another bottle.
Bring another bottle!...' he called to the waiter, and immediately began telling the story.
He drank a glass of champagne they offered him, and ordered another bottle.
Bring a bottle of champagne,' said Oblonsky.
The dispenser asked in German whether he might sell it and receiving permission from some one behind a screen took out a bottle and a funnel, slowly poured it from a large bottle into a small one, stuck on a label, and in spite of Levin's request that he should not do so sealed up the bottle, and was about to wrap it up.
This was more than Levin could stand; he resolutely snatched the bottle out of the man's hands and rushed out at the big glass door.
The little girl, sitting at the table, persistently and firmly hammered on it with the stopper of a bottle, gazing blankly at her mother with her two black-currants of eyes.
When she had taken from her bodice a breast as heavy as a leather bottle, to the neck of which the brawler hung, suddenly silent, they were at last able to talk.
Catherine succeeded in boxing her brother's ears; the little girl had already run away with a bottle.
She had drunk her share of the stolen bottle and was tipsy.
There were crumbs strewed over the table, and in the very midst she saw a forgotten bottle of wine.
But her voice choked; she had followed her neighbour's glance, and her eyes also fell on the bottle.
Yes, it was wine; the Piolaine people had brought her that bottle for her man, who had been ordered by the doctor to take claret.
One day, even, he had forced Lydie to steal from her mother, and made her bring him two dozen sticks of barley-sugar, which Pierronne kept in a bottle on one of the boards in her window; and the little girl, who was well beaten, had not betrayed him because she trembled so before his authority.
Jeanne carefully placed the stopper in the rum bottle, while Lucie locked up the biscuits.
Before setting out he refused his share of a loaf that had been given him the evening before, together with a bottle of gin; but he drank three little glasses, one after the other, saying that he wanted to keep out the cold; he even carried away a tinful.
He at once recognized a scent-bottle belonging to Madame Hennebeau, the little ether bottle which was always with her.
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