How To Use Meerschaum In A Sentence
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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
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Maybe... yeah, maybe I'll look into where opal meerschaum comes from.
THE MOAT AROUND MURCHESON'S EYE
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To colour a meerschaum was the ambition of smokers, swearing was considered neither low nor vulgar, and snuffing was fashionable.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England Scotland and Ireland
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The biggest surprise was Everett's Holmes: a compelling, brilliant, darkly original character, much closer to the original stories than to deerstalkers and meerschaums and Basil Rathbone.
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For, your meerschaum is a fragile thing, and eminently frangible.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce
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Well, donning my deerstalker and lighting my meerschaum I'd start at the bottom.
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The Honourable Sir Ralph Mountharten sharply rapped his meerschaum pipe against the surface of his mahogany writing desk.
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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
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See, the soul is this smoke, that evanishes so quickly; the body this meerschaum that I have in my fingers, and will smoke again, please God.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860
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A small pipe -- I think the Germans call meerschaum -- I could not despise, nor a great bundle of tobacco, which I thrust into the inside pouch of the cloak.
Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker
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Well, donning my deerstalker and lighting my meerschaum I'd start at the bottom.
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Like Dupin, Dr. Bender smokes a meerschaum pipe, filled with cheap tobacco.
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You see him nursing a meerschaum pipe.
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German troops each received a large meerschaum pipe, and fine cigars for the officers.
Steven and Michael Meloan: Contagious Transcendence--The Christmas Truce of 1914
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At length removing carefully his meerschaum from the right to the left corner of his mouth, he condescended to speak.
Archive 2008-12-01
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I suppose you only read Kant in the original German wearing lederhosen and stuffing high grade skunk into your meerschaum.
Perils of pop philosophy
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Jimmy led them, his hands deep in his pockets, puffing white steam-clouds at regular intervals from his "meerschaum" pipe.
Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life
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A meerschaum or a wooden pipe is then allowable, but never a clay or a dudeen.
The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men
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From my own experience of reading parties, I should select as their peculiar characteristics, a tendency to hats and caps of such remarkable shapes, as, if once sported in the college quadrangle, would be the subject of a common-room _instanter_; and, among some individuals (whom we may call the peripatetic philosophers of the party) a predilection for seedy shooting-coats and short pipes, with which they perambulate the neighbourhood to the marvel of the aboriginal inhabitants; while those whom we may class with the stoics, display a preference for dressing-gowns and meerschaums, and confine themselves principally to the doorways and open windows of their respective lodgings.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843
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Well, colonel, replace the meerschaum in your broom-moustache face and I'll tell you:
The Face of Green?
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Generally he sat clasping one knee, staring directly in front of him, and puffing regularly on a "meerschaum" pipe he had earned by saving the tags of Spearhead tobacco.
Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life
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The New Yorker essayist George Plimpton also remembered that invasion of the Harlem peacocks in their enormous purple Cadillacs: "I'd never seen crowds as fancy, especially the men – felt hatbands and feathered capes, and the stilted shoes, the heels like polished ebony, and many smoking stuff in odd meerschaum pipes.
The night Muhammad Ali's legend was reborn – and the party that followed
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The biggest surprise was Everett's Holmes: a compelling, brilliant, darkly original character, much closer to the original stories than to the deerstalkers and meerschaums and Basil Rathbone.
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The lamp, standing alone in the midst of confusion, suffered a partial eclipse; and my favourite Dublin meerschaum successfully resisted the dilapidating effect of a fall of several feet.
Canada for Gentlemen
