tobacco-stoppers

Consider Noah and his family, like idiotic tobacco-stoppers; and how the leopard stuck to warm little fingers; and how the tails of the larger animals used gradually to resolve themselves into frayed bits of string!

A Christmas Tree 2007

Consider Noah and his family, like idiotic tobacco-stoppers; and how the leopard stuck to warm little fingers; and how the tails of the larger animals used gradually to resolve themselves into frayed bits of string!

A Christmas Tree 2007

For, Gruff and Glum, though most events acted on him simply as tobacco-stoppers, pressing down and condensing the quids within him, might be imagined to trace a family resemblance between the cherubs in the church architecture, and the cherub in the white waistcoat.

Our Mutual Friend 2004

At present she is very black and very ugly, besides being cruelly mutilated in different parts of her body, which I suppose have been amputated, and converted into tobacco-stoppers; but once a year she is dressed in very rich attire, and carried in procession, with a silver boat, provided at the expence of the sailors.

Travels through France and Italy 2004

In James Boswell's "Shrubs of Parnassus" (1760) a description in verse of the various kinds of tobacco-stoppers is given:

Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings

Out of a collection of upwards of thirty tobacco-stoppers of different ages, from 1688 to the present time, the following are the most remarkable: a bear's tooth tipped with silver at the bottom, and inscribed with the name of Captain James

Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings

Pipes and tobacco-stoppers have often been favorite testimonials of friendship and reward.

Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings

There seems to be as great a variety of design in snuff-boxes as among pipes and tobacco-stoppers.

Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings

[Illustration: Tobacco stoppers.] "I saw the sayd branch, I did take a dead sprigge from it, wherewith I made two or three tobacco-stoppers, which I brought to London."

Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings

Their only employment was quarrelling among each other, playing at cribbage, and cutting tobacco-stoppers.

Goldsmith English Men of Letters Series William Black 1869