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How to use meerschaum in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word meerschaum? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
Like Dupin, Dr. Bender smokes a meerschaum pipe, filled with cheap tobacco.
Well, donning my deerstalker and lighting my meerschaum I'd start at the bottom.
The Honourable Sir Ralph Mountharten sharply rapped his meerschaum pipe against the surface of his mahogany writing desk.
Carnelian, jasper, nephrite, obsidian, and meerschaum were all used for ornament.
However, the deposits of the clay mineral sepiolite, or meerschaum, in south-central Somalia are among the largest known reserves in the world.
In 1895, business took a new direction when Victor Vinche started producing Meerschaum pipes, particularly calcinated meerschaum pipes.
But in the first half of the 18th century, blocks of raw meerschaum were also imported in small quantities.
Ironically, two of the emblems of Holmes, his meerschaum pipe and deerstalker hat, are not original to Conan Doyle's writings.
The mouthpieces are in amber except for one meerschaum pipe.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The downside of meerschaum is that it is fragile.
Examples from Classical Literature
There were also commissions to purchase in numerable things, ranging from meerschaum pipes to fine flannel shirts.
A meerschaum or a wooden pipe is then allowable, but never a clay or a dudeen.
The first meerschaum pipe made by Karol Kowates has been preserved in the museum at Pesth.
I hear my name called, I lay aside my book and meerschaum, push back my footrest, and go to the door.
It was as if the old days of the music-lesson and the meerschaum had come back.
On a seat against the railing was a young woman dressed suitable for red automobiles, with hair the colour of an unsmoked meerschaum.
He blinked twice, and put the meerschaum back between his lips.
Fresh, vigorous puffs from the meerschaum accompanied these words.
From his lips protruded a large pipe, with its huge bowl of meerschaum.
The meerschaum is good for flowers, I fancy, so have no scruple.
The name is self-explanatory and suggests a well-colored meerschaum.
He took a cigarette out of a dainty box, stuck it into a meerschaum holder which he carried in a morocco case, and reached for my cigar.
The little fat host moved the hand that held the meerschaum.
At length removing carefully his meerschaum from the right to the left corner of his mouth, he condescended to speak.
The large man drew out a red case, and extracted a great yellow meerschaum, out of which, a moment later, he was puffing thick wreaths of smoke.
What is the linguistic connection between a meerschaum pipe and the name of the goddess Aphrodite?
When the long dinner hour was over, Papa Wolf lighted his meerschaum.
Now I think of it, I haven't seen the old meerschaum since he came home.
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