Like Dupin, Dr. Bender smokes a meerschaum pipe, filled with cheap tobacco. |
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Well, donning my deerstalker and lighting my meerschaum I'd start at the bottom. |
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The Honourable Sir Ralph Mountharten sharply rapped his meerschaum pipe against the surface of his mahogany writing desk. |
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Carnelian, jasper, nephrite, obsidian, and meerschaum were all used for ornament. |
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However, the deposits of the clay mineral sepiolite, or meerschaum, in south-central Somalia are among the largest known reserves in the world. |
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In 1895, business took a new direction when Victor Vinche started producing Meerschaum pipes, particularly calcinated meerschaum pipes. |
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But in the first half of the 18th century, blocks of raw meerschaum were also imported in small quantities. |
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Ironically, two of the emblems of Holmes, his meerschaum pipe and deerstalker hat, are not original to Conan Doyle's writings. |
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The mouthpieces are in amber except for one meerschaum pipe. |
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A method was developed of compressing the waste into blocks, which were then shaped into pipes in the same way as with blocks of natural meerschaum. |
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The legend about the cobbler in Budapest, who was supposed to have been the first person to produce meerschaum pipes in 1723, can now definitely be refuted. |
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Dressed in khaki, silver stars glittering on his open collar, chewing on a meerschaum pipe, he ambled to the center of the stage with a sheaf of notes clutched in his hand. |
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But, chiefly, the Admiral extolled the might of naval gunfire, whose concentration on the landing area, he said, gesturing heavenward with his meerschaum, would be the heaviest ever to support American troops. |
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The downside of meerschaum is that it is fragile. |
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