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  • Armitage did not share their distinction of a seat at the captain's table, and Dick found him late at night in the smoking-saloon with pipe and book.

    The Port of Missing Men Meredith Nicholson 1906

  • The general walked out of the smoking-saloon, and the first sight that greeted his eyes was Luke FitzHenry, quick, keen, and supernaturally calm, standing over a group of Malay sailors who were hard at work getting in awnings.

    The Grey Lady Henry Seton Merriman 1882

  • And last, but not least, a commodious smoking-saloon was fitted up amidships, contrasting most favourably with the scanty accommodation provided in other vessels.

    Men of Invention and Industry Samuel Smiles 1858

  • The smoking-saloon, the bar with its contents, the front awning, and part of the starboard wheel-house, were completely carried away -- blown up as if a mine had been sprung beneath them -- and the huge sheet-iron funnels had fallen forward upon the deck!

    The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West Mayne Reid 1850

  • In one corner of the "smoking-saloon" was the "bar," with its elegant adornments -- its rows of decanters and bottles, with silver stoppers and labels its glasses, and lemons, and sugar-crushers -- its bouquet of aromatic mint and fragrant pines -- its bunches of straw tubes for

    The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West Mayne Reid 1850

  • In the centre of the smoking-saloon, there was a table, and around it some half-dozen men were seated.

    The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West Mayne Reid 1850

  • They had already fathered around a table in the "smoking-saloon," and were fingering a span new pack of cards -- the implements of their peculiar industry.

    The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West Mayne Reid 1850

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