Whiskey to right of them, Cocktails to left of them, Popping corks after them, Volleyed and thundered, Yet, 'twere but truth to tell, Many a hero fell.

I looked around the tables and saw other girls drinking cocktails, so I took one.

" At a sign from Philip, the maître d'hôtel handed round the tray of cocktails.

And two cocktails," he added, as an afterthought.

"I'll wait for the cocktails," she decided.

The waiter entered with the cocktails and began to lay the cloth for dinner.

"Here come the cocktails.

" The cocktails and Wingate's choice of a table were alike approved.

It was, perhaps, unfortunate that at his club he met friends who drew him in a corner and offered him too many cocktails.

While they drank their cocktails Bobby watched Graham's disapproval grow.

Immediately the waiter brought cocktails.

Rye cocktails.

" Van Degen was helping himself from the tray of iced cocktails which stood near the tea-table, and Popple, turning to Undine, took up the thread of his discourse.

"Jerry," said the general, "step across to Brown's and tell him to send me three Calhoun cocktails.

But I wonder where that nigger is with them cocktails?

He gave up the morning nip, docked the number of cocktails, went to bed before two, took a little gentle exercise, met Mrs. Pat Dearmanand (like Mr. Robin Ross-Ellison, General Miltiades Murger and many another) succumbed at once.

Could it behorrible thoughtthat he was falling into the hands of some nasty woman who would flirt with him, let him smoke too many cigarettes, drink cocktails, and sit up late?

He hired the bridal suite in the leading hotel, got hold of a fleet of motor cars and a host of boon companions, lived on a diet of champagne cocktails and splashed himself about with the carefree abandon of a dancing dervish.

James Thurber (A); 26May60; R257606. Couple having cocktails.

Schenley Swallows sing: Highballs, cocktails, take your bow.

Schenley Industries, Inc. (PWH); 11Dec67; R424021. Schenley Swallows sing: Highballs hum and cocktails click, Schenley melding does the trick.

Burgess, you and I are neglecting our duty as heroes; there's much shouting to be done yet, much yelling in the streets, much arguing to be done, many, many cocktails to be firmly and uncompromisingly swallowed.

In the Tool'ries front-parlor, discussin' affairs With our heels on the backs o' Napoleon's new chairs, An' princes a-mixin' our cocktails an' slings, Excep', wal, excep' jest a very few things, Sech ez navies an' armies an' wherewith to pay, An' gittin' our sogers to run t' other way, An' not be too over-pertickler in tryin' To hunt up the very las' ditches to die in.

But I remember once in New York going to a theatre and seeing Booth act William Shakespeare's Macbeth; and not twenty minutes later, after all the ghosts and murderings, I happened into a restaurant, and saw the same man drinking cocktails and eating Blue Point oysterswith twice my appetite too.

Apricot and cherry cocktails may be made in the same way.