Phial

To suppose the eggs of the former microscopic animals to float in the atmosphere, and pass through the sealed glass phial, is so contrary to apparent nature, as to be totally incredible! and as the latter are viviparous, it is equally absurd to suppose, that their parents float universally in the atmosphere to lay their young in paste or vinegar! ❋ Unknown (1803)

Round the neck of the phial was a label, and thereon was written this one word, ❋ Unknown (1906)

And why, on 5 February, Colin Powell held up a phial in the UN security council, while he gave the "UK ricin plot" as a reason to go to war with Iraq. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Martin Hall, genial, white-coated head of research at the Natural History Museum's Department of Entomology, holds a miniature glass phial up to the harsh fluorescent light of his gleaming laboratory. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The other phial held a blackened grain of nickel-iron, barely big enough to see. ❋ Jack Swenson (2010)

As enchantingly shown in a sequence at a parfumerie in Grasse, Coco gets around to choosing the test phial bearing the number five. ❋ Unknown (2010)

One glass phial with cork stopper, filled with thumbnail sized fish scales, grey-blue, each bearing an inked number in Roman numerals. ❋ Cavalaxis (2007)

I wrote a post for MwP that began with me thinking about a technique my friend uses for his workouts through to the phial of Billy Bob Thornton blood Angelina Jolie probably still has in a memory chest somewhere on to pink elephants and finally winding up in jewelry. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But I.m reminded of what a better Churchill -- Winston -- wrote about the German decision in 1917 to put V.I. Lenin on a sealed train to Petersburg, "in the same way you might send a phial containing a culture of typhoid or cholera to be poured into the water supply of a great city." ❋ Unknown (2009)

It smells sweet and thick, and although the fragrance is alcohol-based and has a regular sort of consistence, one can't help but expect it to be gooey and oozing suggestively out of some ancient-looking phial. ❋ Marina Geigert (2009)

He scooped a few of them into a phial, promising himself he would catalog these strange artefacts, if only to satisfy his own curiosity. ❋ Cavalaxis (2007)

Another variety of witchcraft container is the glass phial which turns up in 18th-century contexts as a charm against evil creatures. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In the laboratory the encased hand holding the uranium phial quivers as an owl is lit by a police cars headlights on the perimeter. ❋ Unknown (2009)

~ One glass phial with cork stopper, filled with thumbnail sized fish scales, grey-blue, each bearing an inked number in Roman numerals. ❋ Cavalaxis (2007)

Dwining ventured to say no more, but poured some drops from a phial which he took from his pocket into a small cup of wine allayed with water. ❋ Unknown (2008)