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Example sentences for "tobacco"

Lexicographically close words:
toaster; toasting; toastmaster; toasts; tobaccer; tobacconist; tobacconists; tobaccos; tobaccy; tobacker
  1. The Virginian Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) is an example of an inflated tube to the corolla (see fig.

  2. He had no doubt that Garratt Skinner had labored in those quarries himself, and perhaps had himself picked up in bygone days, as he stooped over his work, tobacco thrown over the walls by some more fortunate man.

  3. They will be glad to find the tobacco there to-morrow.

  4. As we continued up the hill," she resumed, "my father cut up the tobacco into small pieces with his pocket knife.

  5. The tobacco glowed and grew dull in the bowl of his pipe regularly; the darkness hid his face.

  6. And Michel, knocking the tobacco from his pipe, said: "You will do well to sleep.

  7. Then we walked slowly along the street, and whenever there was no one near, my father threw some tobacco over the wall.

  8. Kenyon put a whisky and soda by Chayne's elbow, and setting the tobacco jar on a little table between them, sat down and lighted his pipe.

  9. He smiled up at her, and drew out his pipe and tobacco pouch.

  10. Walnut tree leaves, hop leaves, sycamore leaves and such may not be made to imitate tobacco leaves for sale or forfeit 5s.

  11. No tobacco maybe grown in England because the colonies would be discouraged from growing it and the king would not receive customs from it.

  12. King James imposed a heavy duties on imported tobacco because it corrupted man's breath with a stinking smoke.

  13. Smoking tobacco from a clay pipe and taking snuff became popular with men.

  14. This was a result of the voluminous triangle trade of manufactured goods from England, slaves from West Africa, and sugar and tobacco from the West Indies.

  15. Reckon I didn't miss it," said the skipper, who was a chewer of tobacco and a dead shot with his juice.

  16. The passion for tobacco among our men continues quite absorbing, and I have piteous appeals for some arrangement by which they can buy it on credit, as we have yet no sutler.

  17. They sell newspapers and tobacco and so-called stationery, and the man is an enterprising sort of fellow, who would take up a new idea.

  18. The proprietor was evidently weighing out the tobacco while his customers studied the paper.

  19. Madge heard a request for tobacco and a sporting paper, but she was in the middle of some fine printing and did not lift her head from her sheet.

  20. Carabao drays are hauling fragrant cargoes of tobacco and Manila hemp, while over the gangplank runs a chain of men, gutting the warehouse of its merchandise.

  21. The girls at the tobacco booths offered a special cigarette tied with blue ribbon as a souvenir of the December holidays.

  22. Near by, and on an emerald plaza, stand the buildings of the Insular Tobacco Company and of the Oriente Hotel.

  23. Indian corn is good; tobacco is good, it gladdens the heart of the old men when they are in sorrow; tobacco is the present of chiefs to chiefs.

  24. Now if the Shoshones had corn and tobacco to give for furs, they would become rich.

  25. But corn and tobacco must be taken from the earth; they must be watched for many moons, and nursed like children.

  26. Footnote 5: When a chief wishes to go to war, he sends to his warriors some leaves of tobacco covered with vermilion.

  27. The Manitou made the tobacco expressly for man--it is good.

  28. They shall grow the corn and the tobacco while we hunt; while we go to fetch more slaves, even in the big mountains, or among the dogs of the south, the Wachinangoes.

  29. But very few objects on board were insured, and hundreds of hogsheads of Missouri tobacco and barrels of Kentucky flour were several days afterwards picked up by the Arkansas and Tennessee wreckers.

  30. Hanging on a nail alongside the tobacco drawer, or shelf, would usually be seen a pipe-tongs, or smoking-tongs.

  31. The handle is unlike any other I have seen, having one end elongated, knobbed, and ingeniously bent S-shaped into convenient form to press down the tobacco into the bowl of the pipe.

  32. The use of tobacco was forbidden near the meeting-house.

  33. So slavery never was as common in New England as in the South, where the tropical tobacco and rice fields needed negro labor.

  34. In some Dutch houses in New York these tobacco shelves are in the entry, over the front door, and a narrow flight of three or four steps leads up to them.

  35. Oxen were killed, and flour and tea and tobacco were provided in large quantities.

  36. This intimation of the exhaustion of the supply of tobacco abruptly closed the ceremony.

  37. Then word was passed round that the supply of tobacco devoted to the welcome ceremonies was exhausted, for through all of these scenes the pipes were only out of the mouths of the performers.

  38. A faint odour of tobacco still clung to it.

  39. Worse than that, Smith's pipe lay on an embedded log, and a rubber tobacco pouch beside it.

  40. Kloon squirted a stream of tobacco at a pitcher plant and filled the cup.

  41. Kloon, tearing a mouthful from a gnawed tobacco plug and shoving the remainder deep into his trousers pocket.

  42. Nor have I seen any Caledonian snuffing his nostrils with tobacco from the discarded horn of some ram.

  43. I got my engines in trim; then I bribed a native with a sack of Bull Durham tobacco to take me ashore in his one-man canoe.

  44. It was our custom to buy knives and sticks of tobacco of the Company at white man's prices and trade them to the natives at brown man's prices.

  45. They very much wanted to take back some of these heads as relics, and offered fifteen sticks of plug tobacco for each.

  46. We gave the dancers tobacco and each a handful of cheap candy; and then Peter took us to see his wives--two of them, and fine looking ladies they were.

  47. They knew nothing of tobacco or gin, which are so dear to other South Sea Islanders.

  48. At times, Helene would bring certain of her friends to the house, for they were always sure of finding tobacco there.

  49. Jack and Mrs. London sat on their couch on deck with a few hundred sticks of tobacco and a satchelful of beads and red handkerchiefs, coloured calico and cheap jewellery, and started buying.

  50. The whole thing cost fifty sticks of tobacco and one handkerchief.

  51. Then Deal passed into the house to get some tobacco for his pipe.

  52. Carl Brenner, like a child, could not appreciate poverty unless his dinner was curtailed, his tobacco gone.

  53. In the matter of durability, their power to resist wear and tear was obviously much greater than that of the hides and tobacco and other commodities then fulfilling the functions of currency in primitive communities.

  54. Mr. Moorman says that when a boy he did small jobs around the plantation such as tobacco planting and going to the mill.

  55. A large tobacco barn became her refuge where she waited for her child.

  56. On one occasion they were told their tobacco was so eaten up that the worms were sitting on the fence waiting for the leaves to grow but nevertheless in some manner his master hid the defects and received the best price paid in the community.

  57. After one plowing the tobacco was hand tended.

  58. Mr. George Parish in the tobacco fields at $25.

  59. As soon as the children were old enough they were placed in the fields to prepare the ground for setting tobacco plants.

  60. We were never allowed to go to town and it was not until after I ran away that I knew that they sold anything but slaves, tobacco and wiskey.

  61. Help yourself to the tobacco if you get tired of waiting tout seul.

  62. And though he rarely had visitors of his own asking at the chambers, all cost of wine and tobacco was equally borne by him.

  63. Watts blew a whiff of tobacco from his mouth.

  64. That evening, Peter was ushered into a large hot room, pretty well packed with men, and the interstices already filled in with dense tobacco smoke.

  65. Natives sometimes bring small quantities of the gold dust into Punta Arenas, with which to purchase tobacco and other articles.

  66. There is said to be considerable smuggling successfully carried on between this island and the Florida shore, in the article of cigars as well as in tobacco in the unmanufactured state.

  67. Avoid getting one jaw fuller than the other; it is only boys and men who chew tobacco who have cheeks that are not bilaterally symmetrical.

  68. The finest pulp for papier-mache is that made by the ton in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington, from mutilated paper currency, but not from tobacco stamps, which is coarse and not fit for fine work.

  69. There was the man, whose tobacco smoke he had smelt, leaning on the gate, with his pipe in his mouth.

  70. At that same moment, he became conscious of the odour of tobacco wafted towards him on the calm night air.

  71. No smell of tobacco smoke came from the room; and he had let the day pass without going to the laboratory.

  72. The yearly salary in the best Virginia parishes was tobacco of about 100 pounds value.

  73. Tobacco was the main production, too nearly the only one, the planters sometimes actually suffering for food, so that the raising of cereals needed to be enforced by law.

  74. From 1619 tobacco was so common as to be the currency.

  75. The colonists ate much flesh, and nearly all used tobacco and liquor freely.

  76. He holds a sort of tobacco parliament every day.

  77. At his side is his porcelain tobacco jar, two feet tall, and on the stand are innumerable pipes, which in turn are filled and smoked, all day long.

  78. As he expected, the innkeeper turned to the left and entered a large room filled with tobacco smoke and the local habitues of the posada.


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    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    tobacco pipe; tobacco smoke