He reaches for a flask of whiskey.
During competition, when the tension got tightest, he took hits from a flask of whiskey.
At the store, he purchased a small flask of whiskey, some mineral water, and some crackers to snack on.
Reading Tennessee Williams's diaries while he was writing Cat on a Hot Tin Roof reveals a man in crisis, so profoundly addicted to alcohol that he carried a flask of whiskey wherever he went.
It was a difficult labour, the pains lasting all day; and as soon as it began in the morning Bill absented himself, going for a tramp in the mountains with a packet of sandwiches and a flask of whiskey.
They had previously named themselves the founding members of the Antarctic Malt Whiskey Appreciation Society; per its bylaws, every Thursday evening the explorers would drink from a flask of whiskey, which Gow had brought with him, and the next morning they would sleep in an extra two hours.
To soothe the nerves, my playing partner and I merged a small flask of whiskey with a twenty-ounce bottle of Coca-Cola, a bit of impromptu mixology that required pilfering two small plastic cups from the dusty summit of the token machine.
I always associate them with the reference in "The Great Gatsby" to the dilapidated billboard with the all-seeing eyes of Dr. T. J. Eckleburg — an image that literature professors swoon over, but which I tend to ascribe to F. Scott Fitzgerald's probably sipping immoderately from a flask of whiskey while spotting an actual abandoned billboard on a drive to Long Island Sound.
"You have to stay awake somehow," said Tracie Masek, 29, her flask of whiskey tucked safely away as the crowd of caped wand-wielders began to swell outside the Regal Union Square movie theater around 9 p.m. for the opening of the final addition to the Harry Potter film canon, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows: Part 2".
