I hate councils of war or peace without the pipe, and now, imagine it, my dear wife wanted me to smoke, and that was all along of that terrible spittoon and the long-expected cousin of whom I have heard from time to time.
He also furnished pine benches and chairs for the legislature, and covered the floors with clean saw-dust by way of carpet and spittoon combined.
With a flourish and a smirk, Tom deposited the spittoon on the counter under Silvia's astonished eyes.
Sil does, and goes and buys a spittoon before the whole town!
It was he who had presented a solid silverspittoon de luxe to the King of Siam when that worthy visited the United States.
The spittoon magnate's habits were regular and sane.
Other royal paraphernalia, such as the golden spittoon and salver, and the stand for the water-goglet, with its conical golden cover set with gems, were brought in and deposited on the rug when his Majesty appeared.
The spittoon was solid silver, and had never been used but once, when a child threw into it an orange peeling.
The spittoon knows its place in the corner, as if treated by tobacco chewers with oft indignity.
A table knife, chisel, and spittoon were secured for working tools, when operations commenced.
One would enter the hole with his tools and a small tallow candle, dragging the spittoon after him attached to a string.
Ordinary chiefs seem to have adopted the same precaution; a confidential servant deposited their spittle carefully in a portable spittoon and buried it every morning.
Hence the king of Hawaii was constantly attended by a servant carrying a spittoon in which he collected the royal saliva to prevent it from being used by the king's enemies for his injury or destruction.
The Rajah seated himself opposite to her in a similar chair, and a similar spittoon and sirih-box were held by a little boy squatting at his side.
Frank Bohn, in describing the methods by which this group of so-called "spittoon philosophers" in the mixed locals is said to have attempted to disrupt the I.
If the rank and file were educated well enough to make use of the organization instead of arousing animosity they would do away with this spittoon philosophy.
In the hotel corridors, there is a spittoon standing sentinel outside every door.
You can prevent the smallpox by vaccination, but you cannot keep the flies from carrying ten thousand germs of death from the spittoon to the food on the table.
It is much safer to have a smallpox patient in the house than an open spittoon in the summer.
I waited for the signals until I could not wait any longer, for I was a little behind (time), so I picked up a spittoon and let fly at our room.
McGawley and the barkeeper took a hand, the former hurling a spittoon that cracked a fellow's head open and sent the blood spurting, while the latter brought a bottle on a raftsman's skull that raised a welt as big as a cocoanut.
The old spittoon had quite a following, but he hadn't the cash.
He squandered his last precious bullet on the spittoon near which Mr. Adams happened to be at the moment, and the next moment Mr. Adams had him by the throat.
Doctors hold that the consumptive should spit into a spittoon with some disinfectant in it: for, even if he spits on dry ground, the germs in his spittle manage to rise and spread into the air along with the dust.
We should keep a spittoon inside the house, and if we have to spit when out on the road we should spit where there is dry dust, so that the spittle may be absorbed into the dust and cause no harm.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spittoon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
