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...ing of Messiah in his first coming, says, “The bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench,” xlii. 3. expressions very ...

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...Dominique fired a last; shot, and they fell upon him while his gun was yet smoking. Four men held him. Others vociferated around him in a frightful la... ...ve men to break ranks. Francoise was stupefied. Pere Merlier, who had been smoking his pipe and looking at the platoon simply with an air of curiosity... ...red. Pere Merlier was there, seated upon the bench beside the well. He was smoking. The young girl again begged, wept, sank on her knees. She wished t...

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..., their shoulders kept on a level with their ears; the men in furred caps, smoking long-bowled pipes, the women with babies hidden in remarkably ugly ... ...orner in which she planted them for the day. Her brother was always in the smoking-room, where Vogelstein observed him, in very tight clothes, his nec... ...le part in the conversation, usu- ally much relaxed, that prevailed in the smoking-room, but from time to time he made, in his soft flat youthful voic... ...arily made with her, in spite of Mr. and Mrs. Day and the young man in the smoking-room, she had fixed his attention. It was in the course of the even... ...uch of it, her humorous brother with his tall hat and his influence in the smoking-room. He remem- bered Mrs. Dangerfield’s warnings—yet her perplexit...

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...s not that of an enchantress. With one hand she held in her lap a plate of smoking maccaroni; with the other she had lifted high in air one of the pen... ...s- tache. On the side of his head he wore jauntily a little crimson velvet smoking-cap, and I observed that his feet were encased in brilliant slipper... ...ious artist whose claims to public favour were thus distinctly signalised, smoking a pipe in the evening air, and giving the finishing polish with a b...

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...utive—a well-fed man in a correct brown soft hat and frameless spectacles, smoking a large cigar, driving a good motor along a semi-suburban parkway. ... ... him. One mo- ment of heroism he had, in discovering a new way of stopping smoking. He stopped smoking at least once a month. He went through with it ... ...irtuousness to ev- ery one he met. He did everything, in fact, except stop smoking. 37 Sinclair Lewis Two months before, by ruling out a schedule, no... ...urally he had to offer them cigars. His conscience protested, “Why, you’re smoking with them!” but he bullied it, “Oh, shut up! I’m busy now. Of cours... ...ng already seen about the apartment-house doors. He discovered that he was smoking another cigar. He threw it away, protesting, “Darn it, I thought yo... ...ar. He threw it away, protesting, “Darn it, I thought you’d quit this darn smoking!” He courageously returned the cigar- box to the correspondence-fil... ...“Wonder if I need some cigars—idiot—plumb forgot—going t’ cut down my fool smoking.” He looked at his bank, the Min- ers’ and Drovers’ National, and c... ...he one thing a smoker needs, too.” Then he remembered that he had given up smoking. “Darn it!” he mourned. “Oh well, I suppose I’ll hit a cigar once i... ...uilt up a nice little business, and I haven’t any vices ‘specially, except smoking—and I’m prac- tically cutting that out, by the way. And I belong to...

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...d if I smoke?” “Well, what’s that in your hand now?” “By Jove, I have been smoking! I—I beg your par- don. I’m a regular stable boy. I’ll throw it awa... ... I’ve got to work to-night,” asserted Condy. After dinner, while they were smoking their cigars in a window of the main room, one of the hall-boys cam... ...t on the steps outside met Condy dressed as if for bicycling, 56 Blix and smoking a cigarette. “I’ve got eleven dollars!” he announced cheerily. “But... ...pools on to the reels, and attaching the sinkers and flies to the leaders, smoking the while, and scowling fiercely. He got the lines fearfully and wo... ...put away the forks and spoons, and while Condy was stretched upon his back smoking a cigar, she said to him: “Now, Condy, what do you say to a little ... ...and polishing the brass of head-stalls and bridles, whistling the while or smoking corn-cob pipes. Here on the parade-ground a soldier, his coat and v... ...e bushes. Condy walked at her side in silence, yet no less happy than she, smoking his pipe and casting occasional glances at a great ship—a four-mast... ... Condy, the story-teller all alive and vibrant in him, stood at her elbow, smoking cigarette after cigarette, his fingers dancing with excitement and ... ... on the other side.” They left the road and struck across the links, Condy smoking his new-lighted pipe. But as they came around the edge of a long li...

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...sented that her strength was not equal to her aspirations. CHAPTER III The smoking-room at Summersoft was on the scale of the rest of the place; high ... ...s very good for me -very good for me. Let us take that sofa.” “Do you mean smoking’s good for you?” “No no—her not letting me. It’s a great thing to h... ...o altogether and sat there without return- ing fire. His companion stopped smoking, touched by his courtesy; and after all they were out of the fumes,... ...aid twenty words to him. ’ It occurred to me that you’d probably be in the smoking-room and that it wouldn’t be too late to repair my omission. I want...

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...llars or warehouses, for the most part, in which white-jacketed clerks sat smoking easy cigars. The streets were plastered with placards of a bull-fig... ...m the sea, and skirted by gloomy purple lines of African shore, with fires smoking in the mountains, and lonely settlements here and there. On the 5th... ...heir little shops, quiet and solemn, but with friendly looks. There was no smoking, it was the Ramazan; no eating, the fish and meat fizzing in the en... ...eat beds and cushions for reposing on, where lay a dozen of true believers smoking, or sleeping, or in the happy half-dozing state. I was led up to o... ...nally, and the trap-door is shut, and the dancing and the singing, and the smoking and the laugh- ing go on as before. They say it is death to pick up... ... the way; and most people gave a salutation. Presently we saw Ramleh, in a smoking mist, on the plain before us, flanked to the right by a tall lonely... ...g in grease; then with brown ragouts belaboured with on- ions; then with a smoking pilaff of rice:several of which dishes I can pronounce to be of exc... ... sunny wall; two or three of their masters lounged about the court, or lay smoking upon carpets. There was one of these fellows, a straight-nosed ebon... ...cer of State. We and the Turkified Euro- pean, who found us at dinner, sat smoking in solemn divan. His dinners were excellent; they were cooked by a ...

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... purposes of study, delightful as soon as they were used for gossiping and smoking in. Put a cloth on the table, and the impromptu dinner sent in from... ...worn out the edge of our intelli- gence. We had analyzed social life while smoking, laughing, and loafing. But, though elaborated by such means as the...

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...no cigarettes! Perhaps if he were to slip downstairs…. Why had he given up smoking? He groaned aloud. He and his reflection eyed one another in mutual... ...ay. He went into the dining-room. He went in as carelessly as possible and smoking a cigarette. He had an honourable dread of being portentous in his ... ...n came the aggravation of all these distresses by an abrupt abandonment of smoking and alcohol. Alcoholic re- laxation, a necessary mitigation of the ... ...ot re- main to smoke, but came in to find the Mariposa and Lady Sunderbund smoking cigarettes, which these ladies contin- ued to do a little defiantly... ...him over his coffee in a charitable and understanding mood, and perhaps be smoking a cigarette publicly and honourably and altogether satisfyingly bef... ...s coat. “Y ou don’t of course want to break your vows about drink- ing and smoking,” said the young man with the very faintest suggestion of derision ... ...tellectual men would really tolerate the world as it is if it were not for smoking and drinking. Even novelists have their moments of lucidity. Certai... ...went to look at the news, seemed in doubt whether he would not go into the smoking-room, and then went very slowly upstairs, past the golden angel up ... ...f that. “They must go on and get educated,” he said, “if I have to give up smoking to do it. Perhaps I may manage even without that.” Eleanor, it seem...

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... that jolly miller! rasher after rasher, how they pass away frizzling and, smoking from the gridiron down that immense grinning gulf of a mouth. Poor ... ...t the wall, and has his hand upon his liver: the fellow hurts himself with smoking, that is clear, and is as sick as sick 32 George Cruikshank can be...

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...way with it at times—in spite of my better judgment.” Jadwin, who had been smoking a cigar in the vestibule during the entr’acte, rubbed his chin refl... ... blue silk. Curtis Jadwin and Cressler himself stood by the open fireplace smoking. Landry Court fidgeted on the sofa, pretending to listen to the Gre... ...r cigar. That’s one bargain I made with Laura before we moved in here—that smoking was allowable every- where.” “Room enough, I guess,” observed the b... ...ay. Fact. I was having a look around, and I came out into a little kind of smoking-room or other that, I swear, I’d never seen before. I had to get La... ...ngine room, the engineer—the grey MacKenny, his back discreetly turned—sat smoking a pipe and taking the air. From time to time he would swing him- se... ...bre brasses—and there, while Jadwin lay stretched out upon the broad sofa, smoking cigars, one hand behind his head, Laura read aloud to him. His tast... ... But he came back to the house in a little while, and she found him in his smoking-room with a novel in his hand. “Oh, I read that last week,” she sai... ...ing now with a mightier rush than for years past. Thun- dering, its vortex smoking, it sent its whirling far out over 203 Frank Norris the country, f... ...r was in the public room, in the southeast corner of the build- ing, where smoking was allowed, finishing his morning’s cigar. But as he heard the dis...

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...ating chair at the bay win- dow, reading the paper, drinking his beer, and smoking his huge porcelain pipe while his food digested; crop-full, stupid,... ...n always tell a good cigar,” ob- served the agent to Marcus as the two sat smoking at the end of the table. “The light end should be rolled to a point... ...to Frenna’s one or two nights in the week. He spent a pleasant hour there, smoking his huge porcelain pipe and drinking his beer. He never joined any ... ...Germans sat opposite them, gulping their beer from time to time. Heise was smoking a cigar, but Marcus had before him his fourth whiskey cocktail. At ... ...e. Trina was going over the inventory; McTeague, in his shirt sleeves, was smoking his pipe, looking stupidly out of the window. All at once there was... ...lying full length upon 197 Frank Norris the bed, crop-full, stupid, warm, smoking his huge pipe, drinking his steam beer, and playing his six mournfu... ...e, occasionally to the Park (where he would sit on the sun-warmed benches, smoking his pipe and reading ragged ends of old newspapers), but more often... ...Mister McTeague, how do? how do?” The fellow was actually wearing a velvet smoking jacket. A cigarette was between his lips; his patent leather boots ... ... and shoes off, reading the paper, drinking steam beer from a pitcher, and smoking his pipe. But he could no longer play his six lugubrious airs upon ...

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...of a council of war; his chief generals and viziers seated round him, each smoking his hookah, as is the common way with these black fellows, before, ... ...ambled as well as he could up the steps of the maidaun (on which, in rows, smoking, as I have said, the musnuds or general officers were seated), and ... ...pe without subjecting myself to the examination of her curious eyes. After smoking for a while, an attendant came to tell me that my supper was prepar...

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...ered at least a match for any evasive boy in my house. Of course they were smoking and drinking some- where. That type of boy always does. They think ... ...ion that impelled the steel.’ Naturally he does not approve. Come into the smoking-room for a minute. It isn’t fair to listen to boys; but they should... ...ave a cup of cocoa, Padre?” said McT urk with the kettle. “No, thanks; I’m smoking. Always the wrong ‘uns? Pro- ceed, my Stalky.” “ And then”—Stalky w... ...rth over when two or three of the old school had foregathered. “Don’t stop smoking for a minute,” said the Head. “The more you’re out of training the ... ...know,” said Crandall, as the Head slipped off his gown with a grunt in his smoking-room. “I found out just now from our substitute. He was gettin’ my ... ...any pleasure to me” (his in- troduction never varied). “I’d much sooner be smoking a quiet pipe in my own quarters—but I see we ‘ave the Old Brigade o...

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...y repair- ing of all three. He also did some of the repairing himself and, smoking a bull-dog pipe the while, which my mother would not allow him to d... ...s becoming a big and independent-spirited boy—and I began my experience of smoking during these twilight prowls with the threepenny packets of America... ...ves, I fancy, as to the facts that he was suffer- ing for continuous cigar smoking, and being taken in hand by his adolescent daughters who had just r... ...gs… . 7 7 7 7 7 What a preposterous shindy that was! I sat with him in the smoking-room, propounding what I considered to be the most indisputable and... ...out into the night and prowled for a long time through the narrow streets, smoking and think- ing. I returned and went and sat on the edge of her bed ... ...ing in. A big green-baize screen had been fixed up at one end of the large smoking-room with the names 197 H G Wells of the constituencies that were ... ...vivid memories from this pe- riod, the sudden outbreak of silk hats in the smoking-room of the National Liberal Club. At first I thought there must ha... ...and was envied and discussed, praised and depreciated, in the House and in smoking-room gossip, you really have as much of a man as usually figures in... ...the Club to doubt about Liberalism. About two o’clock in the day the great smoking-room is crowded with countless little groups. They sit about small ...

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...m mouth to mouth; Saint Paul’s Cathedral, and every book shop, ordinary, and smoking house in the churchyard poured out its stream of cavaliers and th... ...ep pretending to drink out of it, and fetching a long breath artervards, and smoking a bit of firevood, and sayin’, “Now I’m grandfa ther,”—to see hi... ...nce to her own little room, the rather as it afforded greater facilities for smoking, and was immediately adjoining the ale cellar. The preparations w... ...d he was roused by the voice of his son. ‘I don’t think, ’ said Sam, who was smoking with great composure and enjoyment, ‘that if the lady wos agree ...

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...ul. One would have thought hundreds of paraffin-lamps had been flaring and smoking in that hole for days. I was glad to get out. The man with me cough...

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...d I,” said Joe. “It’s just nothing.” “Why, many a time I’ve looked at people smoking, and thought well I wish I could do that; but I never thought I c... ...ther without first making peace, and this was a simple impossibility without smoking a pipe of peace. There was no other process that ever they had he... ...ed by the showy character of their “regalia.” He prom ised to abstain from smoking, chewing, and profanity as long as he remained a member. Now he f... ...e, with something under their arm, and I reckoned they’d stole it. One was a smoking, and t’other one wanted a light; so they stopped right before me ... ...shes, looked warily out, found the coast clear, and were soon lunch ing and smoking in the skiff. As the sun dipped toward the horizon they pushed ou...

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...me thirty customers were drink- ing English beer, porter, gin, and brandy; smoking, the while, long red clay pipes stuffed with little balls of opium ... ...enty of these stupefied sots. Fix and Passepartout saw that they were in a smoking-house haunted by those wretched, cadaverous, idiotic creatures to w... ...aki, a liquor concocted from the fermentation of rice, and the comfortable smoking- houses, where they were puffing, not opium, which is al- most unkn... ...ce, he simply excused himself for having been overtaken by drunkenness, in smoking opium at a tavern in Hong Kong. Mr. Fogg heard this narrative coldl... ...he other. It was supplied with saloon cars, balcony cars, restaurants, and smoking-cars; theatre cars alone were wanting, and they will have these som...