phial

Example Sentences

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Take human blood, put it in a glass phial and keep it covered in dung for forty days.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 7, 2019

Suddenly, a phial of manna fell to the pavement and broke.

From Salon • Dec. 25, 2018

The experience was certainly straightforward - a welcoming staffer put a soothing warm wrapper on my finger, a pin prick which I hardly felt, and then a small phial of blood filled in a second.

From BBC • Aug. 14, 2014

A small phial of this life from the fertile bosom of Mother Earth will furnish men with substance for days.

From Slate • Jun. 1, 2012

In his great need he drew out once more the phial of Galadriel, but it was pale and cold in his trembling hand and threw no light into that stifling dark.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien