Sentence:  His unsuccessful strivings to give up drink are represented as religious strivings ; he keeps a <WSD>bottle</WSD> in a wardrobe at home , and `` before this wardrobe Praisegod Piepsam had before now gone literally on his knees , and in his wrestlings had bitten his tongue - and still in the end capitulated '' . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a glass or plastic vessel used for storing drinks or other liquids; typically cylindrical without handles and with a narrow neck that can be plugged or capped