Rienaecker laid down the letter and walked up and down the room, while he half mechanically exchanged the meerschaum for a cigarette.
Meanwhile, that fine morning in early June slipped along its sunny way; a heavy treacle-pudding luncheon was treated properly; Uncle Felix lit his great meerschaum pipe, and they all went out on the lawn beneath the lime trees.
Tim, unsatisfied, moved over to the wicker chair where Uncle Felix sat drowsily smoking his big meerschaum pipe.
Non-meerschaum smokers may not know what a delicate task this is, but once well begun the rest is comparatively easy.
Whoever has been the votary of a meerschaum will understand the pride with which I frequently displayed my pipe and its deepening colour to Bailey, often to his great amusement I must admit.
To colour a meerschaum was the ambition of smokers, swearing was considered neither low nor vulgar, and snuffing was fashionable.
One Saturday night our fine policeman was airing himself on this platform, colouring a handsome new meerschaum for Mr. Swarbrick.
A German receiver can be washed out like a teacup, and the oil collected is of value, but a meerschaum should never be wetted.
Some of these are amateurs, who smoke Tobacco only with the view of gratifying that taste for color which is satisfied when a bowl of clay or meerschaum is sufficiently yellowed, browned, or blacked.
Meerschaum is one of the lightest of minerals and it is said that in Italy bricks have been made of it so light that they would float on the top of the water.
To properly color a meerschaum is now considered as one of the fine arts and when completed is considered quite a triumph.
For, your meerschaum is a fragile thing, and eminently frangible.
The chief places are the celebrated meerschaum mines from six to eight miles southeast of Eskis chehr, on the river Pursak chief tributary to the river Sagarius.
Many a fine meerschaum keeps up its cheerful fire on a shilling a-week.
The Dutch are famous clay-pipe smokers, not countenancing the cigar so much as their neighbors the Belgians, nor the meerschaum so largely as their German neighbors on the Rhine frontier.
It's looking pretty ugly for Blade," remarked Freynes, recognising by the substitution of the briar for the meerschaum that Malcolm Sage was ready for conversation.
Placing his meerschaum on the mantelpiece, Malcolm Sage produced a well-worn briar from his pocket, which, having got into commission, he proceeded once more with the game.
I had luxuriated in a few brilliants and the old Polish rose-diamonds, and had descended to mounting a monstrous meerschaumpipe in silver.
The king did not partake, but sat sighing and smoking a meerschaum pipe.
He blinked twice, and put the meerschaum back between his lips.
The farmer's sheep may scale the crumbling walls, and browse the weedy enclosure at will; give Lewin Murdock his meerschaum pipe, with enough brandy and water, and he but laughs.
Taking the meerschaum from his mouth, he returns her look--almost shuddering as his eyes meet hers, and he reads in them a glance such as might have been given by Messalina, or the murderess of Duncan.
He is smoking a meerschaum pipe, which at short intervals he removes from his mouth to give place to the drinking glass.
How Witte the baker was drawn into the conspiracy through his meerschaum pipe; why Mamsell Westphalen regarded the Herr Amtshauptmann as a white dove and Hanchen Besserdich as an angel; and what she thought of the French Judge.
These are concentrated for the time on the noble task of bringing a meerschaum to a fine coffee-colour.
No one cares about the flavour of the tobacco; the only important point is to draw the smoke in such a way as to colour the meerschaum equally all over.
This spring they may be wearing chaparajos and swinging a quirt through the thin air, and in July they may be at Long Branch, or coloring a meerschaum pipe among the Alps.
The farmer's sheep may scale the crumbling walls, and browse the weedy enclosure at will: give Lewin Murdock his meerschaum pipe, with enough brandy and water, and he but laughs.
It was an equilateral triangle about two and a half inches on edge, cut from a slab of meerschaum a little over an inch thick.
Among the things that his biographer left out was that old black meerschaum pipe of the late sixties and early seventies.
He waved his grisly meerschaum and added: 'Lovely place, Havana.
Mr. Bloom was on deck, moving softly to and fro, smoking an immense meerschaum carved to the likeness of a skull.
Oddly enough, he thought of a beautifully carved meerschaum pipe he'd found with the milk that morning.
It was a remarkably finemeerschaum pipe, such as the sergeant had longed irrationally to own for many years.
He did, extracting tobacco and a pipe that was by no means a meerschaum from his pocket.
He used to smoke a good deal out of a big meerschaum pipe with figures on it that he used to show us when he was in a good humour.
Mrs. Knightley covered her eyes, the old woman screamed, and the doctor sat down on a chair and puffed away at his meerschaum pipe.
Well, I'll bet you a new meerschaum that both men are arrested on suspicion before shearing.
Matilda, in particular, delighted him with a valuable meerschaum pipe on which hunting-dogs were carved.
Sunday afternoons preaches moral sermons to daughters, who are laughing in their sleeves at him all the time, and who brags about the meerschaum pipe which the seducer of his own daughter gives him as a birthday present!
He had visited 84 Salem street, stating that he came from Mr. Rabofsky and desired to see a colored meerschaum pipe.
For I have no doubt that the missing bicycle will be found installed beside the meerschaum pipe in Simon Rabofsky's back room.
And the meerschaum pipe--of rare coloring, according to the connoisseur who testified in the previous trial?
What had occurred, to turn this peaceful abode ofmeerschaum and Bourbon into a clear-starched and be-ribboned country house, where shooting-coats and colored shirts were out of place?
A long-legged, good-looking man was sitting on the piazza, with his feet higher than his head, and a meerschaum in his mouth.
It was impossible to deny that the evenings were lonely, and that meerschaum companions were scarce, and that Mr. Andrews, since his stirring adventure, had rather hankered for some one to speak to.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "meerschaum" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: alabaster; asphalt; clay; corncob; hookah; meerschaum; mineral; pipe
