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We were quartered at Cork, where I found the Irish doodheen and tobacco the pleasantest smoking possible; and was found by his lordship, one day upon stable duty, smoking the shortest, dearest little dumpy clay-pipe in the world.
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The sofi beads are like pieces of thick clay-pipe stem about half an inch long, and are in great demand here.
How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004
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The man at the end of the row took a plug of tobacco, cut off enough to fill a clay-pipe, lit it, took a few puffs and passed it to his neighbour.
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When the bottle of whiskey and the clay-pipe had gone around they were ready for their yarns.
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The Cockney, leaving behind him the regalias and meerschaums of the Strand, finds the wax-tipped clay-pipe in the parlors of Yorkshire: finds dhudeen and cutty in the wilds of Galway and on the rugged shores of
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings
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Dutch are famous clay-pipe smokers, not countenancing the cigar so much as their neighbors the Belgians, nor the meerschaum so largely as their German neighbors on the Rhine frontier.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings
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In one of his agitated hands, he held a half-filled glass, in the other, a short, blackened clay-pipe.
The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story John Roussel
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Clay's greatest enjoyments was to smoke his short clay-pipe and the rankest of rank tobacco, though he only did so in private.
Sarah's School Friend May Baldwin
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It seems to me that I must look like my clay-pipe there.
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He looked at me for a moment as if he couldn't believe 'is eyesight, and then' e puts his 'and into' is trowsis-pocket and pulls out one shilling and fourpence, 'arf a clay-pipe, and a bit o' lead-pencil.
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