COCKTAIL in Classic Quotes

1  "He's a bootlegger," said the young ladies, moving somewhere between his cocktails and his flowers.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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2  The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun and now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music and the opera of voices pitches a key higher.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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3  A tray of cocktails floated at us through the twilight and we sat down at a table with the two girls in yellow and three men, each one introduced to us as Mr. Mumble.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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4  Suddenly one of these gypsies in trembling opal, seizes a cocktail out of the air, dumps it down for courage and moving her hands like Frisco dances out alone on the canvas platform.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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5  The bar is in full swing and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside until the air is alive with chatter and laughter and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other's names.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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6  As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way and denied so vehemently any knowledge of his movements that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table--the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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