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"Tobacco pipe" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... any perception of any one of the four. When, however, they are firmly seized and brought into their due bearings one upon another, the facts of heredity become as simple as those of a man making a tobacco pipe, and rudimentary organs are seen to be essentially of the same character as the little rudimentary protuberance at the bottom of the pipe to which I ...
— Selections from Previous Works - and Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals • Samuel Butler
... order to procure specimens for his collection, he bought an old shot-gun for a sum equal to about a dollar,—such a battered old piece that he had to tie the barrel to the stock with a piece of string. A cow's horn served for his powder; he measured his charge with a tobacco pipe, and carried his shot in a paper-bag. About nine in the evening, carrying his supper with him, he would start out and search the country round for animals and rare plants as long as he could see; then eat his supper ...
— Captains of Industry - or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money • James Parton |
Words linked to "Tobacco pipe" : calabash, briar, nargileh, peace pipe, chicha, mouthpiece, tube, sheesha, briar pipe, calabash pipe, hookah, meerschaum, kalian, calumet, clay pipe, pipe bowl, narghile, tubing, hubble-bubble, calean, bowl, water pipe, hubbly-bubbly, shisha, stem, pipe of peace |
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