"High life" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... it would make you feel like. With two fingers of it inside you you would bury your face in your hands and cry because there wasn't anything more worth while around for you to lick than little Jim Jeffries. Yes, sir, the stuff in that second barrel was distilled elixir of battle, money and high life. It was the color of gold and as clear as glass, and it shone after dark like the sunshine was still in it. A thousand years from now you'll get a drink like that across ...
— The Trimmed Lamp • O. Henry
... marriage that we are about to witness, is a "marriage in high life" among the Dahcotahs, and the bride is regularly bought, ...
— Dahcotah - Life and Legends of the Sioux Around Fort Snelling • Mary Eastman
... Sewell,—later on Chief Justice, by persuasion, succeeded in pouring oil on the troubled waters. Nesbitt confessed, and Quebec was minus of a very handsome but beardless youngster, and the English Court journals soon made mention of a fashionable marriage in high life. ...
— Picturesque Quebec • James MacPherson Le Moine
... here the other day,' said Mrs. Smirk to Mrs. Smooth, in the well-known 'great-deal-more-meant-than-said' style. 'Oh such a charming man! Such ease! such manners! such knowledge of high life!' Puff had been at his old tricks. He had resuscitated Lord Legbail, now Earl of Loosefish; imported Sir Harry Blueun from somewhere near Geneva, whither he had retired on marrying his mistress; and resuscitated ...
— Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour • R. S. Surtees
... lookin' for a place like that," said Brevoort, suddenly loquacious. "We sure aim to see this town. We just been paid off—we was workin' for the Bar-Cross—and we figured on seein' a little high life a-fore we went to punchin' again. Is that hotel you was speakin' about ...
— The Ridin' Kid from Powder River • Henry Herbert Knibbs
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