The smoking of pipes was common, and thoughtless profanity was to be heard on all sides as an ordinary part of speech.

I have a second sight, Henry, and it shows me you dead on the floor there, looking bigger than ever, and I see the gun smoking in my hand and my heart as dead as ashes!

The warriors now, with sad forebodings wrung, I sacked twelve ample cities on the main, And twelve lay smoking on the Trojan plain.

Whatever it may have been in the past, I am inclined to think that smoking by women is more common in this country than it is in Cuba, particularly among the middle and upper social classes.

On one point we are sure that we shall agree with the ladies, and that is in a sincere denunciation of the habit of smoking at a tender age.

He was still "frightfully bunged up," but "I think we'll push on to-morrow," he said that night, as he sat by the fire smoking before turning in.

Joshuah Silvester questioned whether the devil had done more harm in latter ages by means of fire and smoke, through the invention of guns, or of tobacco-pipes; and he conjectured that Satan introduced the fashion, as a preparatory course of smoking for those who were to be matriculated in his own college: As roguing Gipsies tan their little elves, To make them tann'd and ugly, like themselves.

The mighty son of Pritha then, his mouth smoking with wrath, struck the invincible god in the form of a Kirata, with his clenched fists, blows that descended like thunderbolts.

Nor was the bottle smoking as always hitherto.

Doc's dinner was ready for him when he got back from church, and it was real foodthat is to say, hot food, a-sizzling and a-smoking from the stove.

LONG BRANCH, Oct. 22While smoking to-day with GRANT, I asked him what he thought of the European complication, and he answered with a most expressive silence.

" He lit his pipe and sat up in bed smoking until a knock at the front door at half-past eleven sent him off to sleep again.

The natives hold a solemn smoking around the Spanish God, which is followed by singing and dancing, as to one of their own Zemés.