Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Spanish. "Perhaps," said I to myself," he is a German." I tried him on my limited stock of German, and found he did not know a word of it. That finished me, and I gave him up as a hopeless case. Some time afterwards it occurred to me to smoke a cigar. I offered him one also. He said that while it was not in the least disagreeable to him, his religion prohibited it. There is only one religion in the world which prohibits smoking, and that is the Parsee. They are fire worshippers, and consider smoking a profane...
...brick and mortar, and is only saved from positive ugliness by its venerable elms and shady lawns. Aside from architectural grace, most of our buildings are composed of that ugliest of materials, - red brick. A red brick building never becomes venerable, - it merely grows dingy. No amount of smoke, mould, or historic interest, can improve such a structure in appearance...
Still soft ascends thy circling smoke...
That passed, like it, in smoke away...
Thou little world of fire and smoke...