negrohead

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When that was over, Lady B brought out a cigar box, and gave me a cigar, made of negrohead she said, which would quell an elephant in six whiffs.

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  • A Virginia tobacco-factory checkmates that innocent tipple with "negrohead" and "navy twist." —  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876
  • And then, he thought, it would be simply delightful to sit in a room in a quiet farmhouse and hear the gentle moaning of calves and the cheerful cackle of exultant hens, as he wrote items in a book about eggs and things, and drink buttermilk, instead of toiling in the ill-smelling trade-room on board the _Palestine_, bottling off Queensland rum and opening tierces of negrohead tobacco, while the brig was either standing on her head or rolling her soul out, and Packenham the skipper was using shocking language to everyone on deck. —  Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899
  • When that was over, Lady B brought out a cigar box, and gave me a cigar, made of negrohead she said, which would quell an elephant in six whiffs. —  The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete
  • When that was over, the younger of our entertainers brought out a cigar-box, and gave me a cigar, made of negrohead she said, which would quell an elephant in six whiffs. —  The Social History of Smoking
 

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