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Examples

  • Half-way down is the moor-gate, where the old gentleman left his cigar-ash.

    The Seriously Deranged Writer and the Model Cars 2010

  • You think old crude-ass Harold Ross is rolling over in his cigar-ash and bourbon-bottle trashed grave?

    My Little Red Top, You've Got Me Spinning...Spinning A-round The Daily Growler 2006

  • Only when he looked at the cigar-ash, which the priest had preserved, he touched it with one finger; then he seemed to stand even stiller than before; but in the shadow of his face his eyes for an instant seemed to shoot out telescopically like one of his own microscopes.

    The Complete Father Brown 2003

  • Only when he looked at the cigar-ash, which the priest had preserved, he touched it with one finger; then he seemed to stand even stiller than before; but in the shadow of his face his eyes for an instant seemed to shoot out telescopically like one of his own microscopes.

    The Complete Father Brown 2003

  • But his fatigue had fallen on him once more, and he only started once, when Flambeau abruptly told him he had dropped cigar-ash on his trousers.

    The Complete Father Brown 2003

  • But his fatigue had fallen on him once more, and he only started once, when Flambeau abruptly told him he had dropped cigar-ash on his trousers.

    The Complete Father Brown 2003

  • I exclaimed, blowing the cigar-ash off my pyjamas, and wondering to myself how I could have been so absorbed in his reading aloud as to have let my half-smoked havannah tumble on to the floor.

    Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 101, July 11, 1891 Various

  • He did not notice the well-worn carpets burned here and there by the hot cigar-ash; the strong smell of tobacco, impregnated in the curtains, did not make him feel qualmish.

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

  • Half-way down is the moor-gate, where the old gentleman left his cigar-ash.

    The Hound of the Baskervilles Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1926

  • Halfway down is the moor - gate, where the old gentleman left his cigar-ash.

    The Hound of the Baskervilles Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1926

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