Cilla was staggered, and thought what it would be, if Mr. Calthorp, smoking his cigar at his club, heard that she had fled from his imaginary pursuit.
Owen made a motion of smoking with Honor's parasol, whispering, 'Fair Fatima!
One of the Gipsy women in the yard frequently came home drunk, and I have seen her smoking with a black pipe in her mouth three parts tipsy.
We tarried, and were made quite at home in another kraal, where we gleaned many interesting particulars of Gipsy life; and here we held a sort of smoking levée, and were honoured by the company of many distinguished residents in camp.
In nine cases out of ten the children of drunken, smoking women will turn out to be worthless scamps and vagabonds, and a glance at the Gipsies will prove my statements.
All our other friends are in statu quo: Spedding residing calmly in Lincoln's Inn Fields: at the Colonial all day: at the play and smoking at night: occasionally to be found in the Edinburgh Review.
After smoking a pipe or two, he was quieter, and left me with a merry remark.
Three or four hackney-coaches remained behind through the laziness of the coachmen, who sat smoking and waiting.
They went across the Piazza Colonna in silence, smoking their cigars, looking at their shadows against the ground in the moonlit night.
Oldofredi remained near his carriage, with his topcoat on, smoking and playfully tapping the croup of one of the horses with his thin bamboo cane.
From here on, however, the Professor spent most of his time in smoking and sleeping, while his wife devoted herself to reading novels, a great stack of which had been provided for the journey.
Some were smoking tiny metal-bowled pipes with long stems, while others lay in a motionless stupor.
Several rough beds made of old sacks were huddled side by side on the floor; and seated round the table were four or five boys, none older than the Dodger, smoking long clay pipes and drinking spirits with the air of middle-aged men.
He went into the smoking compartment and wrote, with a sureness that knew no crossed-out words, a night letter to the dried little man who had sat on the baggage truck and talked of the range.
The boss sat in his chair smoking countless cigars, his big face set in grim lines, his hard eyes peering through the pall of blue at those he questioned.
He talked incessantly and with feverish gayety, smoking numberless cigarettes and apparently unconscious of the flight of time.
Towards daylight the remnants of the Vigilantes straggled into the big blank warehouse on the sand-spit, and there beneath the smoking glare of lanterns cursed the name of McNamara.
Glancing back, she saw several men running, one bearing a smoking revolver, and heard, nearer still, the snarling hubbub of fighting dogs.
Jane lowered the light and went down to join Charlton on the front veranda, where he was smoking a cigarette.
She fled; the old man wiped his eyes, blew his nose and resumed the careful smoking of the cheap, smelly cigar.
I'm smoking the one which Leon give it me on the ship the other day," Moe replied.
Half an hour later, when Alex and Max Gershon came out of the adjoining room with the copartnership agreement duly executed, they found Uncle Mosha calmlysmoking the last of his cigar while he pondered over the "News for Investors" column.
I'll tell you the truth: there ain't nothing in the smoking habit.
After Moe had taken Abe's hand in a limp clasp he nodded in the direction of the smoking room.
The feller goes too far, Abe," he said, after Leon had cancelled the order and departed to drink his coffee in the smoking room.
At this juncture Salzman appeared to summon his employer to a game of auction pinocle in the smoking room, and as Abe started to make a feeble promenade around the deckhouse he encountered Moe Griesman.
This Tommy was a good-tempered old fellow, but, when not running, was invariably asleep or smoking over the kitchen fire.
Regina, who had been weeping bitterly, and would speak to no one, brought Norma and the doctor two smokinghot cups of bouillon on a tray.
Fifteen minutes later she had to scold him to bring him to the fire again, and to the smokinglittle supper.
And after the terrapin Miranda brought in a smoking wild turkey with two quail roasted inside of it, and served with currant jelly, rice cakes, and sweet potatoes fried in melted sugar.
It was about nine o'clock in the evening, and they were talking politics and drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes.
The subject of the foregoing entirely accidental conversation was at that moment standing contemplatively in his office window smoking an excellent cigar preparatory to returning to the bosom of his family.
Payson, smoking his third cigar, and taking now and then a dash of cognac, began to think better of his old dad.
I did not definitely take up smoking until I was 16.
He was a city "street-boy," and got me into smoking cigarettes occasionally.
Its more direct and stimulating influence on the sexual emotions seems indicated by the statement that prostitutes are found standing outside the opium-smoking dens of Bombay, but not outside the neighboring liquor shops.
Somewhere in the school grounds certain youthful schoolmates of his, inspired by precisely similar motives but with different methods of procedure, are sitting in the centre of a rhododendron bush smoking cigarettes.
In other words, he has been expelled, not for smoking or drinking or breaking bounds (or whatever he may happen to have done), but for deliberately and wantonly flying in the face of the Law which prohibits these misdemeanours.
He took another cigar from his pocket case, lighted it and recommenced his slow walk up and down the porch, smoking as before.
A group of men were on the stoep, smoking their after-dinner pipe in noisy discussion.
In a twinkling the smoking shell was out of the breech, and a fresh cartridge in its place; in less than a twinkling an unerring sight was again taken, and an enemy fell.
The colonial man is the first to arrive, half-buried in mail-bags, and smokinghis pipe as philosophically as ever.
And, at any rate, it's better to be doing something rational on Sunday than to sit twirling one's thumbs and yawning, and smoking too many pipes all day because it is Sunday.
He walked on, smoking a cigar, jauntily swinging an umbrella, he passed and was passed by innumerable people; more than one policeman glanced at his tall figure and took no notice.
He shut himself in his study; he threw himself into his easy chair before his hearth; he remained smoking infinite tobacco, staring into vacancy, until his dinner-bell rang.
However, you had better keep smoking a pipe, and not stay more than five minutes; and perhaps you might just as well change your clothes before you come back, and sink the others to air for a week in the river.
It happened upon Oak-apple morning that I was down on a little sandhill, smoking a pipe, and with both children building houses upon my pumps.
You should see more and more gleaming rails pouring together in ever wider streams; you should have glimpses of grey old buildings, rising sublimely above a sea of smoking chimney-pots--if you wish to feel the thrill of entering a metropolis.
When the man beside him was killed in the big raid, he carried on his work, smoking his cigarette, with his eyeglass in his eye.
When at last we turn the corner of the town and see the old grey tender with its driver smoking beside it, I want to hail it as a welcome friend.
Sir Evelyn, smoking cigarette after cigarette, marvelled at a patience which he could not hope to imitate.
He waited there another half-hour, smoking a pipe instead of cigarettes.
The smoking quarters of mutton are removed from the pot; each man draws his knife, slashes off a cantle, eats until satisfied, and passes what is left to his wife and children, who speedily effect a clearance.
From the midst of this room—with mud walls and uneven floor, with the humblest household utensils, and perhaps a smoking fire—you get glimpses of the blue sky through the green leaves of the elm tree.
