opium-pipe

The sudden flood of joy which this thought gave rise to came very near upsetting him again, and he had to resort to an opium-pipe to quiet his nerves.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859 Various

He took the opium-pipe from the fireman's limp fingers and returning to the box, refilled and lighted it.

The Golden Scorpion Sax Rohmer 1921

The common name for opium among the Chinese is yang yen -- foreign tobacco, and my wife says: ` ` When calling at the Chinese homes, I have frequently been offered the opium-pipe, and when I refused it the ladies expressed surprise, saying that they were under the impression that all foreigners used it. ''

Court Life In China 1909

Chinese cook fried great lumps of goat for them to eat, heedless of all things except his opium-pipe, to which he had recourse in the evening, the curious dreamy odour of the opium blending strangely with the aromatic scent of the bush.

Outback Marriage, an : a story of Australian life 1902

The common name for opium among the Chinese is yang yen -- foreign tobacco, and my wife says: "When calling at the Chinese homes, I have frequently been offered the opium-pipe, and when I refused it the ladies expressed surprise, saying that they were under the impression that all foreigners used it."

Court Life in China Isaac Taylor Headland 1900

It is a well-known fact that should a Chinese suffering from the extreme emaciation of disease be also in the habit of using the opium-pipe, it is the pipe and not the disease that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred will be wrongly blamed as the cause of the emaciation.

AN AUSTRALIAN IN CHINA Morrison, George Ernest, 1862-1920 1895

It was long after dark when we arrived; and an hour later stalked in the gaunt form of poor "Bones," who, instead of eating a good meal coiled up on the kang and smoked an opium-pipe that he borrowed from the chairen.

AN AUSTRALIAN IN CHINA Morrison, George Ernest, 1862-1920 1895

He was an opium-eater rather than an opium-smoker; and he ate the ash from the opium-pipe, instead of the opium itself — the most vicious of the methods of taking opium.

AN AUSTRALIAN IN CHINA Morrison, George Ernest, 1862-1920 1895

It is, on the other hand, a source of infinite amusement to the Chinese to see his Mohammedan brother unwittingly smoking the unclean beast in his opium-pipe.

AN AUSTRALIAN IN CHINA Morrison, George Ernest, 1862-1920 1895

Over his shoulder was slung a bag from which projected his opium-pipe; a tobacco pipe and tobacco box hung at his girdle; a green glass bottle of crude opium he carried round his neck.

AN AUSTRALIAN IN CHINA Morrison, George Ernest, 1862-1920 1895