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Word: tobacco (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...snub us at every opportunity. They fill their paper - "The Harvardiana" - with slurs and poor jokes on ours. But I think "The Tea-Table and University News-Letter" can hold its own with their wretched periodical. There's a dear little Freshman across the entry who keeps me in tobacco and matches in the most obliging manner. He's the best boy in his class...

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

...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 »

...hospitality, if I indulge in a few reflections on the characteristics of some of my guests. I mean those whose comings and goings are regulated by the convenient location of my room, the extent of my library, especially that part relating to translations, and the condition of my tobacco...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR GUESTS. | 2/21/1873 | See Source »

...doubted if, on careful consideration, we should have wished the vote to be otherwise: it would certainly have been unpleasant for us to give visitors, if any had happened in, the impression in regard to our habits which would have naturally followed from finding us buried in clouds of tobacco-smoke. But why could there not be some room connected with the main reading-room in which the smoker could indulge his propensities, - a room which no one need enter unless so disposed, and in which, therefore, no one could complain of the habits of others? For instance, would...

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

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