corncob pipe
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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“Cut loose from the world,” he added, “chewing on his corncob pipe, the boy was blissfully lost in this stillwater paradise.”
From New York Times
Open-city proponent, former city councilman, lawyer noted for defending houses of ill repute, casually smoked a corncob pipe.
From Seattle Times
This is a place where everyone knows everyone’s business — “It’s an island,” says a priest, “word gets around” — and each face tells a story: the woman in the post office who lives for news of her neighbors; the men in the pub who speak like a lilting Greek chorus; the elderly woman with a dried-apple face and corncob pipe, whose presence seems to indicate a curse.
From Seattle Times
“So I came up with the concept of a jolly snowman and put a top hat on him with a little flower in the hatband, a corncob pipe, coal eyes,” Mr. Coker told the North American Precis Syndicate in 2001.
From New York Times
Frosty the Snowman Jackie Vernon provides the voice of Frosty, a snowman with a corncob pipe and a button nose who comes to life when a magician’s hat lands on his head in this animated holiday classic.
From Los Angeles Times
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