What is "phials"

Usage examples of "phials".

Kalika Tower glittered with phials, alembics, and tubes, a brittle edifice of glistening glass.

The tin of cough lozenges contained another piece of paper, much handled and wrinkled, and three very small glass phials in a bed of cotton wool.

The laboratory beyond was scrupulously neat, glass phials and jars arrayed in ranks on the shelves.

Architas arrived, with a basket of silver instruments and phials of the most unexpected scents.

In the two phials they showed you was fresh water, and whether Frederick drank the liquid from the phial belonging to your Jewish friend or from the one belonging to your friend called the Poet, the result would have been the same.

The leech went uneasily from his phials to his cages, and from his cages back to his flasks.

The little table where the glass and various phials were placed and which had borne the dangerous bouquet, was placed near the bed, a little back of it, and nearer the door.

The night-lamp on the mantelpiece caught queer yellow reflections from the corners of the furniture, from the gilded frame of a picture on the wall and from the phials and glasses on the table.

With picks and bars they broke the wall open, and when several stones had come out they found a large closet like a laboratory, containing furnaces, chemical instruments, phials hermetically sealed full of an unknown liquid, and four packets of powders of different colours.

You know, madame, how suddenly I snatched him from those phials which he so imprudently touched?