An extension of the spirit level is the bull's eye level: a circular, flat-bottomed device with the liquid under a slightly convex glass face which indicates the center clearly.

* Büchner flask or Sidearm flask or Suction flask-they are a flat-bottomed flask, but made of very thick and resistant glass.

Washington summoned a council of war, and made a case for an all out amphibious assault on Boston, by sending troops across Back Bay in flat-bottomed boats which could hold 50 men each.

The flat-bottomed hull made these craft extremely versatile and economical.

In the short time available many of the ships were poorly made ; many were flat-bottomed river boats requisitioned by the Emperor.

It was quite a thing to see this strapping young six-footer with a long bamboo pole pushing his flat-bottomed boat up the Caroni River.

He was drinking another glass of water.

These early drinking records involved drinking beer from challenging vessels such as the yard glass, which, if not correctly mastered, resulted in the user receiving a blast of beer in his or her face.

The film ends with Elin and Agnes sitting in Elin's bedroom drinking chocolate milk and Elin explaining that she often adds too much chocolate until her milk is nearly black so then she must fill another glass with milk and mix it, and that her sister Jessica often gets mad that she finishes the chocolate.

The most familiar type of glass, used for centuries in windows and drinking vessels, is soda-lime glass, composed of about 75 % silica ( SiO < sub > 2 </ sub >) plus sodium oxide Na < sub > 2 </ sub > O from soda ash, lime CaO, and several minor additives.

For example, suppose that Sally is going to drink a glass of poison, because she wants to commit suicide and believes that she can do so by drinking the poison.

" or simply the act of raising a drinking glass.

* Plastic glass ( for drinking )

* Arnold Bennett, English novelist, died in 1932 of typhoid, two months after drinking a glass of water in a Paris hotel to prove it was safe.

In the show How Not to Live Your Life, Eddie is asked if he is drinking a White Russian, while he is drinking a glass of milk.

Although he has copied the same famous painting dozens of times, he has never quite captured the excluded look of the girl drinking a glass of water.

Strabo described the city as having " fancy tools made out of gold and silver, such as the family gold, right triangles, and their drinking glass, let alone their large homes which have their doors, walls, roofs filled with colors, gold, silver, and holy stones "

He loves smoking and drinking and is rarely seen without a cigar in his mouth or a glass of rum in his bony fingers.

In 1903 Hitler's father died when drinking a glass of wine in a bar in Leonding.

As she reaches for a drinking glass full of water the ticking sound becomes so loud that it drowns out all other sounds.

This time though she dreams that there is a pack of cigarettes beside the drinking glass.

As she reaches for the lighter, her other hand strikes the drinking glass, which falls to the floor and shatters.

On being encountered drinking a glass of wine in the street while watching the fire, Sheridan was famously reported to have said: " A man may surely be allowed to take a glass of wine by his own fireside.

While Joacim was drinking with his girlfriend in a rock club he had been frequenting for over a decade, he was attacked by an unidentified person who hit him in the head with a beer glass and hastily escaped.

Such lamps are usually made from clear glass ( they look similar to normal drinking glasses ) and are filled with oil, sometimes with water underneath.

The yard of ale drinking glass is associated by legend with stagecoach drivers, though was mainly used for drinking feats and special toasts.

The ancient Greeks and Romans wore amethyst and made drinking vessels of it in the belief that it would prevent intoxication.

129 ) indicate that the poet, his brothers and Pittacus made plans to overthrow him and that Pittacus subsequently betrayed them ; Alcaeus and his brothers fled into exile where the poet later wrote a drinking song in celebration of the news of the tyrant's death ( frag.

* Drinking songs: According to the grammarian Athenaeus, Alcaeus made every occasion an excuse for drinking and he has provided posterity several quotes in proof of it.

A central ritual of Ásatrú is the sumbel, a drinking-ritual in which a drinking horn full of mead or ale is passed around and a series of toasts are made, usually to gods, ancestors, and / or heroes of the religion.

One of the major contributions to fighting cholera was made by the physician and pioneer medical scientist John Snow ( 1813 – 1858 ), who in 1854 found a link between cholera and contaminated drinking water.

A selection of three common dairy products made by a South African dairy company: a box of full cream, long life milk, a bottle of strawberry drinking yogurt, and a carton of passion fruit yogurt

Another cites smoking and drinking, combined with poor academic performance and possibly some inappropriate comments made to the staff.

These included: Rheinterrasse, Löwenbräu ( Bavarian beer restaurant ), Grinzing ( Viennese café and wine bar ), Bodega ( Spanish winery ), Csarda ( Hungarian ), Wild West Bar ( aka the Arizona Bar ) ( American ), Osteria ( Italian ), Kombüse ( Bremen drinking den-literally " galley "), Rübchen ( Teltow, named after the well-known turnip dish Teltower Rübchen, made with turnips grown locally in the small town of Teltow just outside Berlin ), plus a Turkish cafe and Japanese tearoom ; additionally there was a large ballroom.

In some cases, a deal is reached with the authorities and connections for sewage, drinking water, cable television and electricity are made.

However, perhaps inevitably, there were also rumours surrounding his death ; that finding that he could not keep the promises that he had made to the king, he committed suicide by taking poison, or drinking bull's blood.

President Lincoln again sent Charles Dana to keep a watchful eye on Grant's alleged intemperance ; Dana eventually became Grant's devoted ally, and made light of the drinking.

As he had never actually visited the UK, he made several mistakes, including claiming that his alleged contact in Glasgow " would do anything for a litre of wine ", unaware of Scottish drinking habits.

* Myod — Traditional Russian mead, historically available in three major varieties: aged mead (" мёд ставленный ") — a mixture of honey and water and / or berry juices, subject to a very slow ( 12 – 50 years ) anaerobic fermentation in airtight vessels in a process similar to the traditional balsamic vinegar, creating a rich, complex and high-priced product ; drinking mead (" мёд питный ") — a kind of honey wine made from diluted honey by traditional fermentation ; and boiled mead (" мёд варёный ") — a drink closer to beer, brewed from boiled wort of diluted honey and herbs, very similar to modern medovukha.

The guitarist struggled with drinking problems and, in a rejection of the group's Britpop aesthetic, made a point of listening to noisy American alternative rock bands such as Pavement.

Once Hicks gained some underground success in night clubs and universities, he quit drinking, realizing that it wasn't alcohol that made a great comic, but his ability to express a truth, even if it was an unpopular one.

He later moved into the production of a variety of cocoa and drinking chocolates, made in a factory in Bridge Street and sold mainly to the wealthy because of the high cost of production.

Since Montmartre was outside the city limits, free of Paris taxes and no doubt also due to the fact that the local nuns made wine, the hill quickly became a popular drinking area.

This ship model is made of clay and features a distinctive prow shaped like a boar ’ s head that is described by Herodotus in History, and depicted on pottery, coins seals and drinking cups.

The heart was passed round from one to another, and a drinking cup was made from his skull.

* In the stronghold of the giant Útgarda-Loki, Thor drank three mighty draughts from a horn during a drinking contest but gave up when he was unable to empty the horn of its contents ; this was also one of three tasks he did-and failed-during his stay, the other two being to lift a cat ( he made it lift a paw, leaving three on ground ) and to defeat an old woman ; it's later revealed that the horn was connected to the sea ( which he leveled down by three fingers ), the cat was the World Sepent and the old woman, the Old Age itself.

His poor health, made worse by excessive smoking and drinking, laid him low.

They are a non-alcoholic concentrated syrup that is usually fruit-flavoured and usually made from fruit juice, water, and sugar, which needs to be " diluted to taste " before drinking.

It was built in the 1850s after the 1852 Metropolis Water Act made it illegal to take drinking water from the tidal Thames below Teddington Lock because of the amount of sewage in the river.

Grant spent a night there in spite of the fact that Bowen ( a teetotaler ) forbade drinking and smoking in his home ( Grant was made to smoke his cigars out on the porch, and he drank covertly ).