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Usage examples of decanters.

Then, glancing at the table and empty decanters, goes up to the couch.

October sun brought out the colours of wall and fabric and set the glasses and decanters shimmering on the polished table.

Then the butler removed the table-cloth, placed two massive decanters, one of claret and one of brown sherry, a dish of nuts and a platter of biscuits on the shining mahogany, put coals on the fire, drew the curtains, lit two more candles on the mantelpiece, and left the room.

The attorney had to leave half-way through the meal, and the lean man, who had ambitions to represent the county, talked politics when the decanters had been thrice round, till he was silenced by his host, after which he sang a song.