He fashioned pipes from the roots of trees, as the Indians did, and his pipe became his greatest solace in solitude.

For the last twenty years he lived chiefly on tea, using it three times a-day; his pipe was his first companion in the morning, and last at night.

When Lord Tennyson chanced to say in Sir William Harcourt's hearing that his pipe after breakfast was the most enjoyable of the day, Sir William softly murmured the Tennysonian line

The pipes leading from it and gradually growing smaller and smaller are the arteries.

A bent pipe, which rises up from the top of the boiler, immediately behind the position of the manhole, is the steam pipe for conducting the steam to the engine; and a bent pipe which ascends from the top of the boiler, at the back end, is the waste-steam pipe for conducting away the steam, which escapes through the safety valve.

A pipe discoursing through nine mouths, and fair, hath Daphnis too: The wax is white thereon, the line of this and that edge true.

A grease-lined pipe is a hotbed for disease germs.

His pipe was many a mile in length, His lungs proportionable in strength; And his rich moccasins,with the pair, The seven-league boots would not compare.

At such moments the stove-pipe becomes to him a magic telescope, through which he peers far into the unfathomable depths.

It has 41 stops, 2,133 pipes, four sets of manuals, each manual with a compass of 61 notes; there are 30 pedal notes, 9 double-acting combination pedals; all the metal pipes are 75 per cent pure tin.

Jackson was told that a pipe was anathema maranatha, which is Greek for no bon.

Those pipes are the outward sign that such inhabitants as remain have transformed their cellars into drawing-rooms and bedrooms.

They think that a sewer in the street, and a pipe leading to it from the house is good drainage.

His pipe became a wand of dreams summoning the genii of glorious memory.

The pipes which convey the blood back to the heart are the veins.

In painting the picture of an Oriental, the pipe and the coffee-cup are indispensable accessories.

The heat of cigar-smoke may have some influence on the teeth; and, on the whole, the long pipe, with a porous bowl, is probably the best way of using tobacco in a state of ignition.

The old stove had rusted out at the back, and the crumbling stove-pipe was a menace to those who sat within range of its fall.

Coffee has become colonized in France and America; the Pipe is a cosmopolite, and his blue, joyous breath congeals under the Arctic Circle, or melts languidly into the soft airs of the Polynesian Isles; but the Bath, that sensuous elysium which cradled the dreams of Plato, and the visions of Zoroaster, and the solemn meditations of Mahomet, is only to be found under an Oriental sky.

Red cob pipes was the prettiest.

The sort of man that 'ad always left his baccy-box at 'ome, but always 'ad a big pipe in 'is pocket.

A pipe and a comedy of Fletcher's the last thing of a night is the best recipe for light dreams and to scatter away Nightmares.

The gas supply-pipe must not be less than half the area of the burner-tube.

Among our aborigines the pipe was the emblem of Peace, and I strongly recommend the Peace Society to print their tracts upon papers of smoking tobacco (Turkish, if possible), and distribute pipes with them.

This was a mere bit of form, for he was soon talking so continuously that the pipe was no longer a going concern.