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  • Iza spent hours with her eyes wide open, leaning into the pipe-tobacco warmth of her father and listening to him explain how to tell a nurse shark from a hammerhead and a grouper from a jack.

    Zombies vs. Unicorns Justine Larbalestier 2010

  • New Hampshire's Mr. Rienzo said that after the tax increase took effect, "numerous manufacturers that sold roll-your-own [tobacco] s aid, 'Why not just put a pipe-tobacco label on it, and you won't have to pay the increased federal excise tax?'"

    Roll-Your-Own Cigarette Machines Help Evade Steep Tax 2010

  • The sweet pipe-tobacco heart of VV sounds delicious, I must admit that I am "very American" only in my total loathing of cigarette smoke, although I do have the tiniest bit of nostalgia for the memory of a somewhat stale smoke I think it was from my grandfather's occasional cigars that permeated the upholstery in the home of my grandparents back when.

    Other People’s Perfume Part I: Smoke Marina Geigert 2008

  • To take out the filter paper from a Black & Mild pipe-tobacco cigar.

    Boing Boing: January 9, 2005 - January 15, 2005 Archives 2005

  • Tax on cigarette-tobacco and cigars would rise by nearly five percent, and on pipe-tobacco 8.3 percent, the minister said in his budget speech.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2006

  • It was American pipe-tobacco that he wanted, but my relatives had stopped sending it or it was being held up.

    A Farewell To Arms Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 1929

  • For a long while they waited, and then there was a smell of pipe-tobacco, and there was Nuth standing quite close to them.

    The Book of Wonder Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany 1917

  • It was the artisans 'boat and the air was heavy with the smoke of pipe-tobacco.

    The Blood Red Dawn Charles Caldwell Dobie 1912

  • I stepped in through the kitchen door, ignoring the quite unconscious humor of "_my_ son" under the circumstances, and found that Dinkie had provided a novel flavor for his dad by emptying the bottle of ink into his brand-new tin of pipe-tobacco.

    The Prairie Mother Arthur Stringer 1912

  • He was not an habitual smoker, consuming perhaps half an ounce a week of pipe-tobacco: and assuredly he would never of his own accord have tried a cigarette.

    Clayhanger Arnold Bennett 1899

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