segar
1 Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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I exclaimed as my excitement knocked the ashes of my segar over my clean shirt.
From A Christmas Story Man in His Element: or, A New Way to Keep House by Francis, Samuel W.
Mr. Blewitt, who was standing at his door, in a pe-green dressing-gown, smoakin a segar, and singing a hunting coarus, looked surprised, flattered, and then suspicius.
From International Short Stories English by Various
The spelling of "segar" shows that cigars were then somewhat of a novelty.
From The Social History of Smoking by Apperson, George Latimer
Alice, who never loses sight of her duty to avert a possible mischance from any human being, rather verdantly suggested, 'that the segar might make her sick.'
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
Come to my rooms, if you like, to-night after the party, or to-morrow in the morning, and we can talk it out over a segar.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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