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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See tobacco.

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  • During the years of 1848 and 49, the Government were not in the habit of selling leaf-tobacco for export, but they have again resumed the practice of 1847, which, however, is likely to be stopped soon again; how soon, it is impossible to say -- probably just when the caprice of the director of tobacco inclines him, as he is an influential person, generally, in his own department.

    Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines During 1848, 1849 and 1850 Robert MacMicking

  • Export-houses continued to make large shipments of leaf-tobacco and cigars until the foreign markets were glutted with Philippine tobacco in 1883, and in the following years the export somewhat decreased.

    The Philippine Islands John Foreman

  • These two years he had taken turn beside his father with ax and scythe, driven the big wood-sleigh over the hard snow, sown and reaped on his own responsibility; and thus it was that no one disputed his right freely to express an opinion and to smoke incessantly the strong leaf-tobacco.

    Maria Chapdelaine; a Tale of the Lake St. John country 1913

  • "Do you chew?" asks Pelle, and hastens to offer him the leaf-tobacco.

    Pelle the Conqueror — Complete Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911

  • "Do you chew?" asks Pelle, and hastens to offer him the leaf-tobacco.

    Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 02 Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911

  • These two years he had taken turn beside his father with ax and scythe, driven the big wood-sleigh over the hard snow, sown and reaped on his own responsibility; and thus it was that no one disputed his right freely to express an opinion and to smoke incessantly the strong leaf-tobacco.

    Maria Chapdelaine Louis H��mon 1896

  • By-and-by my hosts began to understand that when the inspector visited us to see me in the flesh, there was money enclosed in the letters (previously carefully edited by the Government official), money which could be exchanged at Bulun Store for raw leaf-tobacco.

    Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 1887

  • The price paid to the native agents for a full grown male slave, is about one musket, twelve pieces of romauls, one cutlass, a demijohn of rum, a bar of iron, a keg of powder, and ten bars of leaf-tobacco, the whole amounting to the value of thirty to thirty-five dollars.

    Journal of an African Cruiser Horatio Bridge 1849

  • All the vessels bring New England rum, leaf-tobacco, powder, guns, large brass pans, and cotton cloth.

    Journal of an African Cruiser Horatio Bridge 1849

  • Morrisville, N.C., independent leaf-tobacco merchant Alliance One International

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