New Year's projectile, maybe

Usage examples of cork.

They are followed by the Right Honourable Joseph Hutchinson, lord mayor of Dublin, his lordship the lord mayor of Cork, their worships the mayors of Limerick, Galway, Sligo and Waterford, twentyeight Irish representative peers, sirdars, grandees and maharajahs bearing the cloth of estate, the Dublin Metropolitan Fire Brigade, the chapter of the saints of finance in their plutocratic order of precedence, the bishop of Down and Connor, His Eminence Michael cardinal Logue, archbishop of Armagh, primate of all Ireland, His Grace, the most reverend Dr William Alexander, archbishop of Armagh, primate of all Ireland, the chief rabbi, the presbyterian moderator, the heads of the baptist, anabaptist, methodist and Moravian chapels and the honorary secretary of the society of friends.

With a discreet pop, Luciano withdrew the cork from his hoarded Barolo, and poured a tiny mouthful for his wife and a glassful for himself.

Bill Brakey brought out a bottle of Scotch, drew the cork and poured out whiskey and ginger ale.

He seized the flask from Castile and pulled the cork allowing the rich aroma to fill the air.

I corked the chardonnay and put it in the fridge, but the damage was done.

He pushed its sleeves toward his elbows, and the corded muscles of his tanned forearms bulged as his long fingers coaxed the cork from a bottle of Chianti classico.

And from it he began to produce bottles--little fat bottles containing powders, small and slender bottles containing coloured and white fluids, fluted blue bottles labeled Poison, bottles with round bodies and slender necks, large green-glass bottles, large white-glass bottles, bottles with glass stoppers and frosted labels, bottles with fine corks, bottles with bungs, bottles with wooden caps, wine bottles, salad-oil bottles--putting them in rows on the chiffonnier, on the mantel, on the table under the window, round the floor, on the bookshelf--everywhere.

The wind carried away the routine warning, and up here the bang of the Coston gun was no louder than the popping of a cork.

Philpot Curran was born at Newmarket, a small village in the county of Cork, on the 24th of July, 1750.

Dublin or Cork or Limerick, or Dagenham like the fellow she met three years ago did.

King of Divs, might use his subjects to assist the Emir in obtaining the cork from thee.

Ramage watched the dogvanes, a string of corks on a stick, each cork with white feathers stuck into it.

She unloaded the rifle he had carried into the woods and pumped the shotgun he had used as a booby-trap to verify that it was empty, and placed them on the fire to burn off the wooden stocks and forepieces, then added the fishing pole to burn the cork handle and line and melt the fiberglass.

Gerard was looking for, the long light and airy hall, two storeys high, where the liquids were fed into the bottles and stoppered by corks, where the caps and the labels were applied and the bottles packed into cases.

He turned to watch Bella--as did Tyrone-and she was something to see in her green microskirt and halter top, walking high on her cork slope-plats.