"Julep" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... said, "my primitive man, I have rooms for you in a hotel close here. A bath and a mint julep, then I'll take you to a tailor's. What about the big country? It's better than your salt marshes, eh? Better than your little fishing village? Better than ...
— The Tempting of Tavernake • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... a repetatur of the julep, and mixed the ingredients, secundum artem; Tom Clarke hemmed thrice, to clear his pipes; while the rest of the company, including Dolly and her mother, who had by this time administered to the knight, composed themselves into earnest and hushed ...
— The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves • Tobias Smollett
... and gulped it down without a word. The little man stood tiptoe, and putting his head first to one side and then the other, and snuffing considerately in the directions of the various bottles, ordered at last a mint julep, in a thin and quivering voice, and with an air of great circumspection. When poured out, he took it and looked at it with a sharp, complacent air, like a man who thinks he has done about the right thing, ...
— Uncle Tom's Cabin • Harriet Beecher Stowe
... read it again, in spite of its affectations, and its good nature, at first charming, but which ends by making you sick, by making the soul sticky with sweets with liqueurs in them, and lollypops; in a word, that work so much praised by Catholics was a julep scented with bergamot and ambergris. It was like a fine handkerchief shaken in a church in which a ...
— En Route • J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans
... made her appearance, bought, as before, a bottle of camphor julep—sent Timothy home with it, and asking my advice, paid me ...
— Japhet, In Search Of A Father • Frederick Marryat
... lighted another cigarette, rang for a mint julep, then addressed himself to some writing, the materials for which were scattered about on a table by the window. He wrote several letters, made out some orders and accounts, smoking the while and sipping his julep through a long rye ...
— Ralph Granger's Fortunes • William Perry Brown |
