pipeful
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pipefuls
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Marathon money went to one M. Lenoble, who made a pipeful last 51 min.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was only the sound made by a man in the corner who drew noisily on a pipeful of rum-flavored tobacco, causing it to glow on and off, a red disk in the dark.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
But he held his peace, refilled the can with water and set it to boil, Dudgeon sitting in the one chair the room contained, as he stolidly cut a pipeful of tobacco.
From The Rider of Waroona by Scott, G. Firth
Comical as such tales were at the time, and many a pleasant pipeful of Lynchburg tobacco in Powhatan clay though they whiled away, they lacked the catching and fixing power of the boatswain's shrewd sayings.
From From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)
Presently he asked for a match, and with that as an opening, requested what, with delicate euphemism, he characterised as a "loan" of a pipeful of tobacco.
From Thirty by O'Brien, Howard Vincent
There were others who by the judicious administration of pipefuls of tobacco and pints of beer, managed to keep in Crass's good graces and often retained their employment when better workmen were 'stood off'.
From The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Tressell, Robert
Though Josh Owen smoked many pipefuls, time soon began to drag on that worthy's hands.
From The Submarine Boys on Duty Life of a Diving Torpedo Boat by Durham, Victor G.
They sat down in the shade to rest, and thus several hours passed, and the old miner smoked up half 'a dozen pipefuls of his favorite plug mixture.
From The Rover Boys out West Or, The Search for a Lost Mine by Stratemeyer, Edward
When the first pipefuls were finished they laid the pipes on the floor and picked up the other two, showing no sign of distress.
From The North American Indian by Curtis, Edward S.
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