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" At these spectacles, and everywhere else, the English are constantly smoaking tobacco, and in this manner: they have pipes on purpose made of clay, into the farther end of which they put the Herb, so dry that it may be rubbed into powder, and putting... "
The Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle - Page 185
by Henry Thomas Buckle - 1872
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A Journey Into England: In the Year M.D.XC.VIII.

Paul Hentzner - Great Britain - 1807 - 86 pages
...put the herb, so dry that it may be rubbed into powder, and putting fire to it, they draw the smoak into their mouths, which they puff out again, through their nostrils, like funnels, along with it plenty of phlegm and defluxion from the . head. In these Theatres fruits, such as apples, pears,...
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The Retrospective Review.., Volume 1

Henry Southern - 1820 - 402 pages
...put the herb, so dry that it may be rubbed into powder ; and putting fire to it, they draw the smoak into their mouths, which they puff out again through...with plenty of phlegm and defluxion from the head. In these theatres, fruits, such as apples, pears, and nuts, according- to the season, are carried about...
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The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth: Among ..., Volume 2

John Nichols - England - 1823 - 680 pages
...put the herb, so dry that it may be rubbed into powder, and putting fire to it, they draw the snioak into their mouths, which they puff out again through their nostrils, like funnels, along with it plenty of phlegm and defiuxion from the head. In these theatres, fruits, such as apple, pears, and...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 1

Books - 1820 - 398 pages
...put the herb, so dry that it may be rubbed into powder ; and putting fire to it, they draw the smoak into their mouths, which they puff out again through...with plenty of phlegm and defluxion from the head. In these theatres fruits, such as apples, pears, and nut», according to the season, are carried about...
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La Musa Madrigalesca: Or, A Collection of Madrigals, Ballets, Roundelays ...

Thomas Oliphant - Ballads, English - 1837 - 374 pages
...the herb so dry that it may be " rubbed into powder ; and putting fire to it, they draw " the smoke into their mouths, which they puff out again " through their nostrils like funnels." \ F. Beaumont thus celebrates it in a poem called " The " Triumph of Tobacco over Sack and Ale." "...
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The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of ..., Volume 2; Volume 11

English periodicals - 1842 - 528 pages
...put the herb, so dry that it may be rubbed into powder ; and putting fire to it, they draw the smoke into their mouths, which they puff out again through their nostrils like funnels, along with it plenty of phlegm and defluxion from the head. At these theatres fruits, such as apples, pears, and...
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Notes and Queries

Electronic journals - 1854 - 816 pages
...put the herb, so dry that it may be rubbed into powder ; and putting fire to it, they draw the smoke into their mouths, which they puff out again through their nostrils, like funnels, along with it plenty of phlegm, and dcfluxion of the head." — Journey into England, 1598. We must not forget,...
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The Archaeological mine, antiquarian nuggets relating to Kent by A.J. Dunkin

Archaeological mine - 1855 - 420 pages
...put the herb, so dry that it may be rubbed into powder, and putting fire to it, they draw the smoke into their mouths, which they puff out again through their nostrils, like funnels." I will not continue his description, which is very graphic I assure you, of the somewhat nasty and...
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Milledulcia: A Thousand Pleasant Things Selected from "Notes and Queries"

Robert Conger Pell - Anecdotes - 1857 - 436 pages
...put the herb, so dry that it may be rubbed into powder ; and putting fire to it, they draw the smoke into their mouths, which they puff out again through their nostrils, like funnels, along with it plenty of phlegm, and defliixion of the head. We must not forget, however, that James L, in his...
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Milledulcia: A Thousand Pleasant Things Selected from "Notes and Queries"

Robert Conger Pell - Anecdotes - 1857 - 444 pages
...put the herb, so dry that it may be rubbed into powder ; and patting fire to it, they draw the smoke into their mouths, which they puff out again through their nostrils, like fuunels, along with it plenty of phlegm, and defluxiou of the head. We must not forget, however, that...
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