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  • Early as it was, crowds of American, English, and Continental tourists were abroad, their gleaming white drill attire and tobies and helmets, conspicuous among the grander colour of the natives.

    The Mark of the Beast Sidney Watson

  • Men who usually bought tobies bought the best cigars, and when Mr. Jennings came up, scowling, and I handed him the brand he'd smoked for years, she took one, clipped the end of it as neat as a finger nail and gave it to him, holding up the lighter.

    Where there's a Will 1912

  • William reveled in one-cent Wheeling tobies) “and then he goes and contems my iron.

    Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 1920

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