Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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I fancy that we get on better than some of our neighbors; but we do not brag, and I usually feel that I am smoking my pipe in a powder magazine.
From The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm by John Williams Streeter
My cigar—a particularly good one—is alight, and I am smoking it with the blessed satisfaction of one who enjoys it, and regretting that there is not a man in all China who has its equal.
From The Adventures of a Special Correspondent by Jules Verne
I feel pretty well now—have had dinner and am smoking a good Manila cheroot.
From Real Soldiers of Fortune by Richard Harding Davis
"I don't like cynicism, sir," said she; "and inasmuch as tobacco is not yet discovered—" "It is clearly impossible that I am smoking," I finished; "quite true."
From The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking by James Branch Cabell
