caporal

• “So drawing another chair to the fire, and handing him my last bundle of "caporal," I propped my patent-leathers on the grate, more Americano, and waited for the stream of talk which was sure to come.”

  Concerning Cheapness

• “A été tué au combat le caporal Martin Dubé du 5e Régiment de génie de combat basé à la Base des Forces canadiennes Valcartier près de Québec.”

  God Bless Cpl. Martin Dube - Sunday, June 14th 2009

• “Sex reassignment surgery is akin to claiming to cure someone of a Napoleon complex by agreeing with them that they are indeed le petit caporal.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » The Man Who Would Be Queen:

• “_Petit-caporal_" smoking-tobacco, the delight of the middling classes of Paris, hardly suits an American's taste.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860

• “Wait a moment, till I fill a pipe with caporal, and have a smoke; for if I meet another man with that delicacy, I shall have to give up the Grotto -- unless I have a pipe under my nose, as counter-irritant. ”

  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy

• “The young fisherman was sitting on a thwart smoking a caporal.”

  Pied Piper

• “He got out his packet of caporal cigarettes and offered one to Nicole, but she refused.”

  Pied Piper

• “Nicole went out and came back presently with a packet of caporal cigarettes.”

  Pied Piper

• “Taitbout were the Concerts Rouge, where for seventy-five centimes they could hear excellent music and get into the bargain something which it was quite possible to drink: the seats were uncomfortable, the place was crowded, the air thick with caporal horrible to breathe, but in their young enthusiasm they were indifferent.”

  Of Human Bondage

• “Gaston whispered gloomily behind my chair: "Mon petit caporal" -- he called me that because of a fancied likeness to the young”

  Now It Can Be Told

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