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  • Our problem with the Vin Au Verre is not the price (which we can only guess is steep) but that the experience of uncorking, decanting and appreciating the bottle is lost. The Kegerator for Wine | Impact Lab
  • ‘Very well, thankee, uncle,’ returned Mr. Sempronius, who had just appeared, looking something like a ringdove, with a small circle round each eye: the result of his constant corking. Sketches by Boz
  • The bottling and corking machines are usually sterilized by steam, or by chemical sterilants.
  • a hollow stem, or beets or turnips that split and crack, or where we have so-called drouth spot or internal corking in apples, you can be sure that you can't grow a Persian walnut, because the boron requirement alone is many, many times that of an apple or of most vegetables. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950
  • No, it isn't exactly trouble," went on Joe, "and I suppose I ought to be corkingly glad of it; but I hadn't counted on leaving the Central Baseball Joe in the Big League or, A Young Pitcher's Hardest Struggles
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  • Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense. Helen Rowland 
  • Because you really would do them so corkingly, you know, if only you should do them. The Merryweathers
  • The issue of limited quantities of natural cork and the problem of corking, when the wine takes on a corked taste, are leading to the increasingly widespread use of silicon corks and screw tops.
  • Eyebrow-raising in print, they sound gripping here because of Andrews' glorious dagger-through-honey vocals, which combine with occasional strings and his band's raw passion to produce a corking debut.
  • After pouring himself a glass and corking the bottle, he slid back into the pillows beside her.
  • Two corking matches tomorrow and Tuesday, for starters.
  • She had discovered a few bottles hidden in a dusty rack wedged between two kitchen units and she'd wasted no time in uncorking a bottle of white and pouring out three large glasses, passing one each to Carl and Michael.
  • Restaurants across the country are now offering to repackage any unfinished wine bottles by recorking the wine using a special pump to extract air, ensuring it keeps for several days, and slipping the bottle into a bag.
  • The bottling stage of wine-making is apparently a fun endeavor, according to customers who were involved in the various stages of filling and corking and labeling their bottles while I interviewed Gloria.
  • Ballplayers will try to gain an edge whenever possible whether it's doctoring baseballs, corking bats, or taking an illegal position in the batter's box.
  • Once upon an era, batters cheated by corking their bats or taking uppers to keep themselves stimulated.
  • Uncorking it, she took out a small rag and saturated it with the liquid.
  • Good Heaven! how unfortunate!" said Lady Penelope, with a deep sigh, and sinking down on one of the little sofas in an attitude of shocking desolation, which called the instant attention of Mr. Pott and his good woman, the first uncorking a small phial of salts, for he was a pharmacopolist as well as vender of literature and transmitter of letters, and the other hastening for a glass of water. St. Ronan's Well
  • There was some confusion as to whether we should stop at lights and whether we should do something called "corking," as well as use of some other use of non-competitive smug group ride jargon with which I am mostly unfamiliar, and so I did what I do on most rides, which is simply hide in the back and leave the work or, in this case, decision-making to everybody else. BSNYC Road Dairy: Last Stop Portland
  • Once upon an era, batters cheated by corking their bats or taking uppers to keep themselves stimulated.
  • Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense. Helen Rowland 
  • Earth and Sky mentions the global cooling that can be caused by ash clouds, even a nutbadg theory about thick ice "corking" volcanoes (LMAO!!) yet leaves out any mention of the gaseous emissions of Volcanoes or how the ash works to offset any warming that might be caused by those emissions. The Jawa Report
  • Is putting a foreign substance on a ball or corking a bat as bad as using performance-enhancing drugs?
  • The embarrassment he's experienced, on the heels of a near suspension for corking another player, is penalty enough.
  • So we have to take the risk of uncorking it and hoping the more progressive side wins.
  • Labor-intensive riddling and disgorgement is in constantdemand as the queue of vintages advances toward corking. Jason Feulner
  • Corking the cannula is an excellent orthopedic treatment in certain cases where muscle atrophy and partial inflammatory fixation of the cricoarytenoid joints are etiological factors in the stenosis. Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
  • Who's for some more wine?" asked Polly, uncorking another bottle.
  • With party think tanks, big and small, uncorking their creative juices, seminal works take centre stage and artistic expressions reach for the stars.
  • To prevent oxidation after bottling and before corking, he uses a blanket of inert gas, as do some winemakers and, like many winemakers, synthetic stoppers.
  • The rules against corking bats, applying foreign substances to the ball, and so forth are cheats that either don’t work, or require a fair amount of skill to execute (a spitter is not an easy pitch to throw). Matthew Yglesias » PEDs
  • My conclusion was that no device worked better than simply recorking the bottle and standing it on the kitchen counter (my flat is seldom warmer than 65 degrees).
  • Those mitigating circumstances, however, That doesn't mean, however, that Microsoft hasn't produced some corkingly bad adverts in its history. Technology news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
  • Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense. Helen Rowland 
  • He caught me with a corking right upper cut - I didn't know whether I was in Manchester or Las Vegas for a split second.
  • 'corking' -- well, it means that a person is all right, don't you know? Fernley House
  • I try to imagine her uncorking a bottle of wine, picking a stone out of her shoe and downloading a PowerPoint presentation in one easy movement.
  • As the world's vintners move away from natural cork -- which some claim is responsible for "corking" spoilage of up to four percent of all wine -- to synthetic stoppers, animal conservationists are sounding alarm bells about the future of the endangered species that thrive in cork orchards. Boing Boing: December 29, 2002 - January 4, 2003 Archives
  • Whether it's pitchers doctoring baseballs, batters corking bats or electricians creating an eye in the sky cheating system, historically, individuals and teams sometimes do whatever is necessary to gain an edge.
  • Other vineyard applications include coating corks with liquid glass to prevent "corking" and contamination of wine. Boing Boing
  • WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is angry, environmental officials are worried and BP is trying to accomplish what's being described as corking a gushing soda bottle. KVUE - Home
  • When some swelling of the laryngeal structures still exists, this gradual corking has a therapeutic effect in lessening the stenosis by exercising the muscles of abduction of the cords and mobilizing the cricoarytenoid articulation during the inspiratory effort. Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
  • Has anything inspired the oft-dubbed king of the one-liner to create a corking new joke recently?
  • He evolved a technique of standing the bottles upside down so the sediment settled against the cork, and then freezing the neck so that a plug of frozen sediment could be fired out by a quick opening and then recorking the bottle.
  • Up until this morning, this was - as I am sure you will agree - a corking idea.
  • I saw a most corkingly pretty girl bicycling down to the village one morning, and they told me she was named Boyd and kept a bee-farm at Flack's. ' Uneasy Money
  • “Good Heaven! how unfortunate!” said Lady Penelope, with a deep sigh, and sinking down on one of the little sofas in an attitude of shocking desolation, which called the instant attention of Mr. Pott and his good woman, the first uncorking a small phial of salts, for he was a pharmacopolist as well as vender of literature and transmitter of letters, and the other hastening for a glass of water. Saint Ronan's Well
  • The designated driver will traditionally be having a mineral, but the other adults could consider uncorking a bottle of big chewy Shiraz.
  • Vineyards are testing it against a common grape fungus and wine makers are interested in using the product to prevent "corking". IOL Technology
  • Whether it's pitchers doctoring baseballs, batters corking bats or electricians creating an eye in the sky cheating system, historically, individuals and teams sometimes do whatever is necessary to gain an edge.
  • The chances of him opting to become a free agent seemed remote after he was suspended for corking his bat in June.
  • Hillbilly, 'corking' the act of placing one's self and one's bicycle in front of oncoming traffic at an intersection so that the group can continue to ooze through an intersection without having to stop. BSNYC Road Dairy: Last Stop Portland
  • He means you are not to go into the mountains alone," said Nefret, corking the bottle. LORD OF THE SILENT
  • Somehow these two elements were combined in a corking afternoon's football at Dens Park yesterday that demonstrated Scottish football still has a pulse.
  • In choosing duty to the party over loyalty to his conscience, he has only succeeded in corking and blunting his own pen.
  • This partial obstruction causes obstructive emphysema, which must be distinguished from compensatory emphysema, in which the ballooning is in the unobstructed lung, because its fellow is wholly out of function through complete "corking" of the main bronchus of the invaded side. Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
  • Deran asked, taking a long slug of wine, then corking the half-full flask and hanging it back around his neck.
  • Nixon, out of caution perhaps to prevent escape, had muffled the extreme folds of the riding-skirt with which he was accoutred, around his ankles and under his feet, and there secured it with large corking-pins. Redgauntlet

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