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" The atmosphere was like that of a perfumer's shop. Tobacco in any other form than that of richly scented snuff was held in abomination. If any clown, ignorant of the usages of the house, called for a pipe, the sneers of the whole assembly and the short... "
The History of England: From the Accession of James the Second - Page 363
by Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1849
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 16

1849 - 606 pages
...in any other form than that of richly scented snuff was held in abomination. If any clown, ignorant of the usages of the house, called for a pipe, the...would he have had far to go. For, in general, the coffee rooms reeked with tobacco like a guard room ; and strangers sometimes expressed their surprise...
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The History of England from the Accession of James II.

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 560 pages
...in any other form than that of richly scented snuff was held in abomination. If any clown, ignorant of the usages of the house, called for a pipe, the...general, the coffee-rooms reeked with tobacco like a guard room ; and strangers sometimes expressed their surprise that so many people should leave their...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 16

1849 - 588 pages
...in any other form than that of richly scented snuff was held in abomination. If any clown, ignorant "This visit to Edinburgh, and, above all, the trial...glowing eloquence of the prisoner Gerald — made coffee rooms reeked with tobacco like a guard room ; and strangers sometimes expressed their surprise...
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The History of England from the Accession of James II.

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 550 pages
...in any other form than that of richly scented snuff was held in abomination. If any clown, ignorant of the usages of the house, called for a pipe, the...somewhere else. Nor, indeed, would he have had far to go. Fot>, in -general, the coffee-rooms reeked with tobacco like a guard room; and strangers sometimes...
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The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 470 pages
...in any other form than that of richly scented snuff was held in abomination. If any clown, ignorant of the usages of the house, called for a pipe, the...and the short answers of the waiters soon convinced * The chief peculiarity of this dialect was that, in a large class of words, the O was pronounced like...
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The History of England from the Accession of James II.

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 480 pages
...in any other form than that of richly scented snuff was held in abomination. If any clown, ignorant of the usages of the house, called for a pipe, the...and the short answers of the waiters soon convinced • The chief peculiarity of this dialect was that, in a large class of words, the 0 was pronounced...
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Hogg's Instructor, Volumes 3-4

1849 - 896 pages
...in any other form than that of richly scented snuff was held in abomination. If any clown, ignorant of the usages of the house, called for a pipe, the...assembly and the short answers of the waiters soon covinoed him that he had better go somewhere else. Nor. indeed, would he have had far to go, for, in...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 20

1849 - 638 pages
...in any other form than that of richly scented snuff was held in abomination. If any clown, ignorant of the usages of the house, called for a pipe, the...the whole assembly, and the short answers of *The chief peculiarity of this dialect was lhat,in « Inrge class of words, the 0 was pronounced like A....
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The History of England from the Accession of James II.

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 464 pages
...calls it; and Titus Gates affected it in the hope of passing for a fine gentleman. Examen, 77, 254. Y him that he had better go somewhere else. Nor, indeed,...would he have had far to go. For, in general, the coffee rooms reeked with tobacco like a guard room ; and strangers sometimes expressed their surprise...
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The History of England, from the Accession of James II.

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 552 pages
...in any other form than that of richly scented snuff was held in abomination. If any clown, ignorant of the usages of the house, called for a pipe, the...would he have had far to go. For, in general, the coffee rooms reeked with tobacco like a guardroom; and strangers sometimes ex* The chief peculiarity...
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