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What if the bread be uneatable, the coffee undrinkable, and the tobacco unsmokable?

From The Subterranean Brotherhood by Hawthorne, Julian

Frequently he was at great pains to relight a pipe which contained nothing but charred remnants of tobacco and a moist, unsmokable mixture which afforded only a somewhat offensive taste and aroma.

From The Forfeit by Cullum, Ridgwell

The biscuits were never in stock; the chocolate, though high in price, was so thin that there was nothing of it; and the cigarettes were unsmokable.

From On the right of the British line by Nobbs, Gilbert

If you do not obey, I shall gaze into the next tobacconist's window we pass, and go in and buy you all sorts of unsmokable and unusable things.

From The Double Traitor by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)