"Cigarette" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I spoke to him in his own tongue. He answered in clean-cut English. 'Thank you, stranger,' he said, looking me full in the face as if summing me up. 'That is very much better. And, since you are so considerate, perhaps you will allow me to smoke a cigarette.' Naturally I decided that he was going to do without that smoke. His six-shooter, whether loaded or empty, was too close for me to let him have his ...
— Kiddie the Scout • Robert Leighton
... now I will light myself a cigarette, and you will no more talk. As an old soldier, I know that it is bad for a caballero with a broken head to talk so ...
— Mr. Fortescue • William Westall
... his cigarette. "With all these sensations, my dear Holgate," he remarked, "I have forgotten my duty. Perhaps you ...
— Hurricane Island • H. B. Marriott Watson
... cave under the sea, when he crossed the threshold of this room, and the peculiar odour of the leather always caught at his breath and choked him for a moment. Edmund looked sulkier and more futile than usual, even, and the cigarette that dropped from his trimmed and polished hand had ...
— The Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon • Josephine Daskam Bacon
... England the small silver coins are almost useless, and the prices of different things vary by pence or half-pence. One goes into an hotel, for instance, for a glass of beer and forks out twopence, or a packet of cigarette papers, one penny. There it goes up from the pence to the shillings, and from the shillings to the pound, and the shillings form a sort of barrier between the small every-day expenses (that might be avoided) and the pounds which are the real wealth. Here ...
— Canada for Gentlemen • James Seton Cockburn
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