At midnight the supper-rooms were thrown open and we formed into little parties of six, each having a table, nobly served with plate, a lackey in attendance, and a gratifying ice-pail or two of champagne to egayer the supper. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Faraday's well-known ice-pail experiment proved this. ❋ William George Hooper (N/A)
So there came oysters, with a cobwebbed bottle of old hock in a cradle, and an unknown delicate fish with burnt butter, and then the Navarin with champagne in an ice-pail, and fruit, and delicate foreign cheeses, and coffee which is a dream to the man whose unjaded palate first tries it in perfection. ❋ David Christie Murray (N/A)
I listened to the ticking of the clock upon the mantelpiece and stared dully at the wine resting in the ice-pail which now contained nothing but dirty water. ❋ Sax Rohmer (1921)
A bottle of wine stood in an ice-pail, in which the ice had long since melted, and a tempting cold repast was spread. ❋ Sax Rohmer (1921)
"And I understand" -- again she made a little grimace -- "that it is quite an exceptional thing for the crew to be consoled, as I was to-day, by an ice-pail!" ❋ Marie Belloc Lowndes (1907)
Laverick took the bottle from the ice-pail by his side, but the sommelier darted forward and served them. ❋ Unknown (1906)
An attentive waiter was already arranging an ice-pail in a convenient spot. ❋ Unknown (1906)
Another waiter brought a tray and laid two covers on the table: a cold lunch, some fruit and a bottle of champagne in an ice-pail. ❋ Maurice Leblanc (1902)
I don't know what we had to eat, except that there were trout from the river, and luscious strawberries and cream; but I know that the dinner seemed perfect, and that the head waiter, a delightful person, brought us champagne, with a long-handled saucepan wrapped in an immaculate napkin, to do duty as an ice-pail. ❋ Unknown (1901)
A waiter was bringing the girl a small bottle of champagne, in an ice-pail. ❋ M. Leone Bracker (1901)
Later he would dine, eating majestically, and savouring his food, behind a bottle of champagne set in an ice-pail -- his waistcoat defended by a napkin, his eyes rolling a little or glued in a stare on the waiter. ❋ John Galsworthy (1900)
But perhaps his daughters were "just women" of the same type; and the family circle as warm as the interior of an ice-pail. ❋ Huxley, Leonard (1900)
Not a few pleasant evenings did I spend at the table of the long dining-room, with the close-cropped red head of silent and genial Hauptmann von Krehl looming large over the great ice-pail, with its ❋ Archibald Forbes (1869)
'Some more ice, Clem,' said Wilmet; but Clement looked up from the ice-pail in despair, for all was melted; and she could only steep handkerchiefs in the water and in eau-de-cologne, and lay them on the head, while Clement wondered if he could find a shop; but where was the use at three in the morning? and poor Lance rolled round wearily, sighing, 'Oh, I did not know one's head could ache so!' ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)
Before them stood a small table, covered with a spotless napkin, upon which a breakfast equipage was spread -- a most inviting melon and a long, slender-necked bottle, reposing in a little ice-pail, forming part of the "materiel." ❋ Charles James Lever (1839)
