Which preposition to use with cigars
One of our great friends, Sir Henry Hoare, was dining that night, but he didn't want to go down, preferred smoking his cigar in a warm room and talking politics to W. He had been a great deal in Paris, knew everybody, and was a member of the Jockey Club.
He removed his cigar from his mouth and looked at it critically.
The entire crowd became emotional, and a dozen lighted matches were thrust forward toward an apparently incombustible cigar with which Potts had long striven.
During the dog watches, often, every man aboard would be below, for at that period Captain Selover loved to take the wheel in person, a thick cigar between his lips, the dingy checked shirt wide open to expose his hairy chest to the breeze.
I wonder if it is permitted to try a cigar at these conversation-onies, gentlemen?" "I believe it is, sir," returned Pindar, coolly.
You 'ain't been kiddin' me, Lew?" He shot up his cigar to an oblique.
He pulled the cigar out of his mouth and looked at it approvingly.
He found that gentleman, dressed in his best, sitting in an easy-chair with his hands folded over a fancy waistcoat of startling design, and, placing a small box of small cigars on his knees, wished him the usual "Happy Returns."
" Selingman puffed away at his cigar for a moment.
WHAT A SHAME FOR THAT OLD CUSS TO CHUCK THE STUMP OF HIS CIGAR INTO THE LAKE, 'STEAD OF DROPPING IT
They also brought us mangoes and other native fruits, and queer cigars of most abominable flavor.
And every Saturday night, sir, you shall have a cigar after dinner, with the Major.
Indeed, rich merchants, to whom a difference of price is no object, as a rule take the Manila cigars before Havanas.
He smoked more cigars than any man I have ever met.
"You will go?" He had risen, and was lighting a cigar over the chimney of the lamp.
He almost hated the innocent baby for its inopportune arrival; but remembering how that poor little creature too must bear the punishment of his crime, he flung the end of his cigar against the stove with a curse, and for one momentonly one bitter, painful momentfound himself wishing he had never met, never loved, his darling; had left the lamb at peace in its fold, the rose ungathered on its stalk.
If you will get me a yard of cotton cloth, and let me put it in the furnace fire, you'll get a fair idea of the kind of atmosphere we'd be breathing if I allowed a cigar like that to be lit within fifty feet of the front door.
If any one should be caught making cigars without a license, before what court would he be tried?
Well do I remember that shop, the oily-faced, sandy-whiskered proprietor, his betting-book, the cheap cigars along the counter, the one-eyed nondescript who leaned his evening away against the counter, and was supposed to know some one who knew Lord 's footman, and the great man often spoken of, but rarely seenhe who made "a two-'undred pound book on the Derby"; and the constant coming and going of the cabmen"Half an ounce of shag, sir."
[Illustration: HE JAMMED THE FIRE END OF HIS CIGAR AMONG THE FINGERS OF THE GRASPING HAND.]
At the time when we wished to visit San Sebastien we learnt that the "Citadol" was closed to visitors, owing to some foreigner having foolishly lighted his cigar near a powder magazine.
" Mary smiled; it was always safe to rely on Captain Alec's fine feelings; under the circumstances he wouldshe had felt pretty sureprefer to smoke his cigar outside the house.
" "Even with hostile naval and aeroplane bases atsayCalais, Boulogne, Dieppe, Ostend?" Mr. Hebblethwaite pushed a box of cigars towards his guest, glanced at the clock, and rose.
May I smoke my cigar under the famous crimson rambler?" The sun set flaming red, behind the Beulah hills.
Trayton Burleigh sat back in his chair watching the smoke of his cigar through half-closed eyes.