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He knocked the white ashes out of his pipe—it had been curling in brave wreaths to the very ceiling two minutes before—and sat musing.

From John Halifax, Gentleman by Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

So it really had two, but had been curling up one of them quite out of sight.

From The Nursery, October 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 4 by Various

But a few yards from her seat an Italian had been curling his black mustache for quite an extraordinary length of time, staring all the while at the little blonde girl on the fountain steps.

From The Ranch Girls in Europe by Vandercook, Margaret