Example Sentences

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Suspicion, wheedling, indignation, and the haunting eyes of the tobaccoless have hounded the nation's cigaret retailers since the coming of the great famine.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some time after, the grasping man discovered that the pearl had been found in the "meat" of a "helmet" shell which had been roasted by a hungry and tobaccoless boy.

From Tropic Days by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)

"Thinkin' of buyin' that 'ar gulf, buddy?" asked the captain, made sarcastic by his narrow escape from a tobaccoless voyage.

From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney

"Thinkin' of buyin' that'ar gulf, buddy?" asked the captain, made sarcastic by his narrow escape from a tobaccoless voyage.

From Roads of Destiny by Henry, O.

This one moment of triumph was worth all the long miserable winter with its butterless bread and tobaccoless pipes.

From Across the Years by Porter, Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman)