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Word: smokes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1873-1873
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...dying for a smoke, and as I have n't any tobacco of my own, I think I'll close and go over to my Freshman's to roll a cigarette...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A LETTER. | 2/21/1873 | See Source »

...dare you smoke?" quoth Dominie in rage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A FACT. | 1/24/1873 | See Source »

...Please, sir, I smoke for corns...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A FACT. | 1/24/1873 | See Source »

...That smoke belonged to regions famed for burning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A FACT. | 1/24/1873 | See Source »

...entirely excluded! The wish must have constantly recurred to the minds of nearly every member of that class, that he could enjoy his after-dinner cigar over some light reading, not in his own possession, but yet so near at hand. Yet if one of the two privileges, smoking or reading, must be given up, the latter, it is much to be regretted, is the one which is usually dispensed with. It is now too late to lament the result of the vote upon this subject, for we are forced to acknowledge that it is what we ought to have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR READING-ROOM. | 1/24/1873 | See Source »

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