brown bottle

Either way, the remedy was the same: The bartender handed the cowboy a brown bottle with a label covered in ornate promises of health and vigor restored, hair regrown, even tuberculosis arrested in its tracks, so it was guaranteed to cure whatever ailed him, or at least slake his thirst.

She held a dark brown bottle of beer in her hand.

Anastasia returns with a small brown bottle.

Mr. Rogers took a brown bottle of penicillin and a large syringe out of his saddle bag.

Think of “Kitchen Bouquet,” the stuff in the little brown bottle that midcentury homemakers used to add to dishes like onion soup and roast beef to make them brown.