Tobacco Pouch
2023-06-12 22:08:25
- An acrid cigar held tightly in your teeth, you look like a banker or a psychiatrist or both —Daniela Gioseffi
- Ash flows like a breaking thundercloud from his clenched cigar —Harvey Swados
- Ashtray … crammed with smoked cigarettes like dead bugs —John Rechy
- Blowing a cloud of coarse smoke [from pipe], like a steam roller —Frank Swinnerton
- (I lit) a cigar, a cheap twisted black thing like half a pepperoni —T. Coraghessan Boyle
- Cigarette coals dotted the room like watchfires —Thomas Pynchon
- Cigarettes … dangle from his lips like a second tongue —Jonathan Valin
- Cigarettes tasted like hot ashes —Anthony E. Stockanes
- Cigars … when lit, they exuded an overwhelming odor, like burning manure from constipated giraffes —Richard S. Prather
- A dead cigar which was always in his hand, seemed to belong there, like a thumb or finger —Willa Cather
- The glow in the bowl of his pipe went on and off like a firefly —Jean Stafford
- A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman —Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- His cheeks puffed [from smoking a cigar] like a bellows —Jay Parini
- His cigar … had become a natural appendage … like a pipe stuck in the face of a snowman —Robert Traver
- It [tobacco] smells like Saturday, and consequently puts me in a chronic holiday mood —Robert Benchley
- It [cigarette] tasted like burning rope —F. Van Wyck Mason
- Lit his stogy, which flared up like a burning bush —Arthur Train
- My psyche felt as different without cigarettes as my body felt in moving from air to water —Norman Mailer
- Removed his water-logged cigar, like a man calmly unscrewing his nose —Robert Traver
- The smell of good tobacco … heavy as incense in a church —Howard Spring
- Smoked like a chimney —Richard Harris Barham
- The smoke of cigars and cigarettes like curtains before the lights —R. Wright Campbell
- Smoking his clay pipe with the elegance of an Indian chief —Andre Malraux
- Stubbed out the cigarette as if he were squashing a cockroach —Derek Lambert
- The tip of his narrow cigarette danced like a tiny ballerina in the dark —Nelson Algren
- Took another deep drag of his cigarette, letting the smoke curl up out of his mouth and around his head like ectoplasm —Margaret Millar
- To smoke a cigar through a mouthpiece is the equivalent of kissing a lady through a respirator —Anon