Sassburger telephoned for ice, and the bell-boy who brought it said, prosaically and unprompted, "Highball glasses or cocktail?
I think we could more or less stand a highballif it wasn't too long a one--not over a foot tall!
I just love those trips on the night boat up the Hudson with the searchlight: shining on the trees and the ice tinkling in the highball glass as the steward comes down the deck.
Then he opened his eyes and blinked at the tall highball glass in his hand.
It was at this point that Martin felt the last stiles readjust in his brain, and entirely on impulse he reached out and took the frosted highball glass from the tray.
BIZZY IZZY HIGH BALL Drop 1 piece of Ice into a Highball glass.
I pushed another highball at him, but he guessed he hadn't a thirst any more, and one cigar was all he ever smoked in an afternoon.
That talk of mine seemed to open up the road for things, and I handed him a good cigar and pushed a highball his way.
I held out a hand but she put her empty highball glass in it instead of her own little paw.
I went to my little bar and refilled my highball glass because swinging through the jungle makes one thirsty, and while I was pouring I took a sly peek into Tomboy Taylor's mind.
Most of the men he knew paid such visits, dropping in somewhere for tea or a highball on the way uptown.
He took a highball himself, not because he wanted it, but because she refused to drink, at first.
I believe you had reached the highball incident in your recital.
She indicated a very pale blonde who sat slumped in a deep chair beside a low cocktail-table, a highball in her hand.
Having completed her quorum, and distributed her tickets, Mrs. Neff made ready to depart by attacking her highball again.
Forbes took a gulp of a highball and sat staring at Persis.
Fernand spoke with indulgent pity: "Mr. Enslee takes usually only a highball of the Scotch.
Ten Eyck went exploring, and found him in retirement clutching a bighighball glass with his little raccoon-like fingers, and blinking his little raccoon-like eyes.
Then the symbolic mood faded and as he sipped his third highball his imagination yielded to the warm glow and he lapsed into a state similar to floating on his back in pleasant water.
Peter gave them each a highball and offered them a cigarette from his case.
Sitting in a semicircle of lounges and great chairs, they had a highball all around.
You are Yale men, I presume," said Peter, finishing his highball and preparing another.
And here's a highballfor you, John," said Neville, concocting a huge one on the sideboard.
She let him go with a last disdainful tweak, gracefully escaping his charge and taking refuge behind Neville who was mixing another highball for Annan.
Always she had avoided such consideration, but the tiny highball had given her daring.
Later, when he mixed a highball for himself and Graham, she again surprised him by asking him to mix her a "wee" one.
He must have heard something we said," said Rolfe, setting his highball glass down with a thump.
Joe finished his highball and came to his feet to get another one.
Makes a topnotch highball with ginger ale and a twist of lemon.
He put them into the bag and sat sipping the highball and thinking pleasant thoughts until the bell on the stove warned him that dinner was ready.
After getting dinner assembled and in the oven, he went out and called for a while, then mixed a highball and took it into the living room, sitting down with it to go over his day's findings.
The Inspector lighted a new cigar, sipped his highballand came back to his speech.
Drink," exclaimed Mr. Clarke, suddenly roused from meditation of a day now dead when a highball could be purchased for fifteen cents.
I don't remember ever seeing him without a tall brandy highball at his elbow.
He wouldn't qualify for putting the shot, but for putting the highball I'll back him against all comers.
Babe spoke with a gentleman friend long since passed on, and Kitty with a deceased husband, and began to cry quite sobbily and took little sips of highball quite gulpily.
I'm plumb sick of Scotch--wouldn't take it in a highball right now if you was to shove one under my nose!
The sandy-haired man beside me, who had been using his highball for a crystal ball, must have glimpsed in it what he was looking for.
He drank about a third of his highball and sat gazing into the rest of it, in an almost yogic trance.
Next to him was a man of about my own age, with sandy hair and a bony, Scottish looking face, who sat staring silently into a highball which he held in both hands.
He blinked stupidly at the bottle and then he put it down very carefully and took another breath and looked at a highball glass in front of the leaning man.
The highball glass was empty and clean, but the leaning man's fingers were curled lightly and gracefully around it.
