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Robespierre, Marat, and the like; a great bust of Mirabeau, mutilated, with the word Traître underneath; lists and republican proclamations, tobacco-pipes and fire-arms.
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Little Polly (to whom, at her christening, I had the honour of presenting a silver mug EX OFFICIO) followed with a couple of tobacco-pipes, and the queerest roguish look in her round little chubby face.
The Book of Snobs 2006
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Scarce had the myrmidons of Michael Paw attained the front of battle, when the Swedes, instructed by the cunning Risingh, leveled a shower of blows full at their tobacco-pipes.
Washington Irving 2004
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I had never seen this done before, though acquainted with tobacco-pipes; and it made me laugh, until I thought of the peril that must follow it.
Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004
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You would find, if you were to look up the history of tobacco-pipes, that in early specimens this protuberance was of a different shape to what it is now.
Erewhon 2003
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The boats had to be drawn down, and the boatmen fetched from their cans and tobacco-pipes.
Can You Forgive Her? 1993
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Dumfriesshire, on the farm of Gilrig, a number of pipes of burnt clay were dug up, with heads smaller than the modern tobacco-pipes, swelled at the middle and straighter at the top.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings
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You could almost see them (and that, too, without very keen optics) put care into their tobacco-pipes, anxiety curled in fume over their heads.
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I was astonished at the enormous quantity of stone idols, delicately worked trinkets in various hard stones and even in obsidian, terra-cotta tobacco-pipes, figures, and astronomical calendars, &c., displayed there.
Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor
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Actual smoking from tobacco-pipes was introduced on the stage afterwards; and instances from the early dramas have been given by the writers on tobacco history.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings
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