meerschaum

• Uwe stood sucking his meerschaum, his gaze wandering over the tattered and soot-stained smelters. —  The Many-Coloured Land -- Julian May
• The pipe was a superb meerschaum, admirably colored, black as the teeth of its owner, but fragrant, curved, shining familiar to his hand, and the natural complement to his physiognomy. —  The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 (of 8) Boule de Suif and Other Stories
• I had not thrown my pipe away for it was a beautifully carved meerschaum--a present. —  A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872
• His nerves have never been corrugated with alcohol; his thinking-marrow is not brown with tobacco-fumes, like a meerschaum, as are the brains of so many unfortunate Americans; he is the same lusty, warm-blooded, strong-fibred, brave-hearted, bright-souled, clear-eyed creature that he was when the college boys at Amherst acknowledged him as the chiefest among their football-kickers. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864
• To colour a meerschaum was the ambition of smokers, swearing was considered neither low nor vulgar, and snuffing was fashionable. —  Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland

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