"Booze" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... had never been drunk but once; and that was the night before he married the widow of a local publican, who had a nice little block of stock in one of Ingolby's railways, which yielded her seven per cent., and who knew how to handle the citizens of the City of Booze. When she married Tom Straker, her first husband, he drank on an average twenty whiskies a day. She got him down to one; and then he died and had as fine a funeral as a judge. There were those who said that if Tom's whiskies hadn't been ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... the door, he stopped. "But I air not goin' to swig any more booze till we gets Andy Bishop an' I ...
— The Secret of the Storm Country • Grace Miller White
... wait—if Frank don't take all night," Brit grumbled. "I hope he ain't connected up with that Echo booze. ...
— Sawtooth Ranch • B. M. Bower
... on him for a long time—and it was the only da— scheme they wasn't too lazy to work. They'd git money to buy powder an' fuse an' caps, ma'am, an' blow it on booze, y'see. An' they'd hang in town, boardin' off Frenchy, jest as long as they c'ld think of ...
— Casey Ryan • B. M. Bower
... signifies that the hobos had better strike out and do some lively begging in order to get the wherewithal to celebrate my return to the fold after a year's separation. But I flashed my dough and Slim sent several of the younger men off to buy the booze. Take my word for it, Anak, it was a blow-out memorable in Trampdom to this day. It's amazing the quantity of booze thirty plunks will buy, and it is equally amazing the quantity of booze outside of which twenty stiffs will ...
— Moon-Face and Other Stories • Jack London
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