The hours would alone have just slowly uncorked it all allowing the rage to disperse slowly and unnoticed.
"Corpus of a Siam Mosquito"
Steven Sills
I stood over her; the dim outline of her person was just visible, but my hand crept slowly through the darkness, grasping the bottle, which was already uncorked.
"Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life"
Ann S. Stephens
Trevanion meanwhile had engaged my adversary in conversation along with the stranger, who had been our guide, leaving O'Leary alone unoccupied, which, however, he did not long remain; for, although uninvited by the others, he seized a knife and fork, and commenced a vigorous attack upon a partridge pie near him; and, with equal absence of ceremony, uncorked the champaign and filled out a foaming goblet, nearly one-third of the whole bottle, adding- "I think, Mr. Lorrequer, there's nothing like showing them that we are just as cool and unconcerned as themselves."
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)