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On exhibit were cigar-store Indians, spittoons, hookahs and a three-foot Meerschaum pipe with a relief carving of Napoleon's retreat from Moscow.
U.S. Tobacco's Chief Made Dipping Hip Stephen Miller 2010
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The author had time to take up the Meerschaum pipe as he is about to dispatch his awesomely successful teenage detective Alex Rider into the shadowy world of adulthood.
New Sherlock Holmes novel by Anthony Horowitz out in November 2011
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IN SEATTLE Up on the ridge in the little Craftsman-style bungalow, tucked among the Buddha statues on the mantel, there's an old Meerschaum pipe.
The uneasy namesake Manuel Roig-Franzia 2011
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The figure ensconced in my favourite armchair was bone dry and puffing contentedly on a Meerschaum, exquisitely carved and if my eye did not deceive me strangely familiar.
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To this day, even a liberal can get away with donning tweeds, lighting his Meerschaum pipe, putting on his deerstalker, taking up his Purdey, and downing a few quail over pointers.
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Of course, most of my reading time is spent in my wood-panelled library, smoking my Meerschaum pipe and contemplating the imbrication of hegemonic discourses.
G.I. Joe 2009
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Before I inhabited a wood-panelled library and smoked a Meerschaum and contemplated the imbrication of hegemonic discourses, I grew up in a gun shop literally; it was attached to the house.
G.I. Joe 2009
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By currently popular brainwashing theories, I should be wearing a three-piece suit, smoking a Meerschaum, and trading Chesterton quotations with a bunch of other dorks.
Around the Diamond: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009
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Before I inhabited a wood-panelled library and smoked a Meerschaum and contemplated the imbrication of hegemonic discourses, I grew up in a gun shop literally; it was attached to the house.
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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Of course, most of my reading time is spent in my wood-panelled library, smoking my Meerschaum pipe and contemplating the imbrication of hegemonic discourses.
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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