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Small bottle-glass portholes add points of light, and undulating walls bear the imprints of 112 spruce trees, chopped down from Zumthor’s clients’ farm, then slowly burned, leaving blackened traces in the thick concrete.

From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2011

Faces peered at them through the bottle-glass windows of the inn.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman

Here, in truth, was real ice at last—green as bottle-glass at the edges, and melting into unfathomable deeps of glowing blue.

From At a Winter's Fire by Capes, Bernard Edward Joseph

Around, the floor was composed of solid dark green obsidian, as hard and transparent and sharp as bottle-glass.

From The White Man's Foot by Allen, Grant

A fierce gust came howling up the little river between its leaning houses and broke in rain upon the bottle-glass quarrels of the window.

From Nicky-Nan, Reservist by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir