“I’m afraid I did,” he said dryly, mashing out his cigarette. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

My dad went out on the balcony to smoke a cigarette, which he did whenever he was really upset. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Despite my nerves, all I can think of is the old college rule, A Chi Omega never walks with a cigarette. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Still, I hear him pad through the living room hear the squeak of the front screen door and know, he's made it to the porch swing, to smoke a cigarette. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

And sitting on top of it was a cigarette butt. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

The driver rolls his shoulders and lights up a cigarette, breathing a gray cloud out through his nostrils like fog in the cool morning air. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

A haze of smoke hung in the air; it wasn’t the sweet mustiness of her abuelo’s Malaguenas but a danker, cigarette smell. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I was smoking a cigarette and I did not look at her. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was almost like a starburst flashed from the corner of his teeth, like the cartoon dad on the candy cigarette box. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Nicholson, smiling, reached into his jacket pocket and took out cigarettes and matches. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

A pillar of ash tumbled from his cigarette onto the threadbare hall carpet. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

She spotted a pack of cigarettes atop the dresser beside his bed. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Taking puffs from a cigarette, I scooped the beans out of the can with my fingers and ate them. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You smoke, you say—a pipe, cigarettes, cigars?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Franny reached for the pack of cigarettes and took one out. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Cecilia now stood and looked around her—a hunt for the cigarettes was about to start. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She offered me another cigarette, and I had a moment of rebellion. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

She points to the display of cigarettes behind us. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Bull extinguished his lights, lit a cigarette, passed it to Ben, lit one for himself, and began to smoke in silence. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

His cigarette was nearly finished before I spoke. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Scrimgeour limped toward Harry and jabbed him hard in the chest with the point of his wand: It singed a hole in Harry’s T-shirt like a lit cigarette. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He reached for his conch shell and stubbed out his cigarette. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

As she put the cigarette between her parched lips I realized how much I’d missed her for the last few days. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He wobbled away on his bicycle, the cigarette dangling from his mouth, the cough racking his body. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I hope you took pains to correct them,” said Henry, lighting a cigarette. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Papá sat at the kitchen table, smoking a cigarette and staring out into space. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

To this day, if you say to most Americans “Winston tastes good,” they can finish the phrase, “like a cigarette should.” The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Penn offered a cigarette to von Linden, who waved it away in disdain. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I could smell the smoke now, the smell of both firecrackers and cigarettes. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

He bummed cigarettes off of the reporters as he praised Smith and Bradshaw and old Doc Babcock, then took a few shots at Woolf again, as he always used to. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind the counter are cigarettes and shelves of beer and wine. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

If anyone had taken those cigarettes across state lines at any point, it was a felony. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I am fifteen when Mrs. Nielsen finds a pack of cigarettes in my purse. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He took a drag on his cigarette that lasted an age. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

We still have the old couch, but there is a new blue sheet covering the cigarette burns. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Colonel Cathcart turned away grudgingly after another moment, incompletely reassured, and began striding the floor, his hands kneading his long cigarette holder. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He had helped to make the Chesterfield cigarette sign at the Polo Grounds. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He puffed the candy cigarette, then eased it down to his side. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

"Oh, let's not talk about it. There were some funny things, though. Do give me a cigarette." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

My whole body sinks onto her bed, still with her comb in my hand and with the scent of cigarette smoke, alcohol, sweat, pain, and grief on the tips of my fingers. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He lighted a cheap African cigarette and glanced at me. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the wharf, workers flashed their tin lunch buckets and grumbled for cigarettes. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He kept his Marlboros rolled up in one of his T-shirt sleeves, and he lit his cigarettes with a Zippo lighter stamped with a picture of a naked lady bending over. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

An auxiliary cable strings out from the cigarette lighter, attached to an iPod. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I’m looking out the window while Mrs. Drexel’s cigarette uncoils a rope of smoke. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They were smoky smelling, not like cigarette smoke but the deeper smoke of a campfire that goes into clothes and stays there after the fire’s out. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Most of them are silent; occasionally one begs a cigarette butt. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's not like I'm going any further with Eric—and the cigarette's just for show. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Your cigarette will get wet. Take the flowers.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Each then looked around for more debris to throw into the hole: paper, bits of glass, butts of cigarettes, until all of the small defiling things they could find were collected there. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody came toward him, offered him a cigarette or a glass of water. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Things are spilling everywhere, and he retrieves keys and pens and cigarettes before giving Mr. Black a little salute. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“No. Let’s go to the tree,” he said, reaching into his pocket for another cigarette. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The receptionist reappears, thumbs me to follow her, cigarette dangling in her hand. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Mr. Ray was obviously all out of cigarettes, because this was definitely one of those times he would’ve been sparking one, taking a drag, and blowing the smoke high into the air. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Orange groves, failed movie stars, lamplit cocktail hours by the swimming pool, cigarettes, ennui. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Down the block, a German soldier in a greatcoat, scarf, and hat cupped his hands to his face to light a cigarette. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He shook a cigarette from a pack of Lucky Strikes that Henry had left on the counter. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Because if you can take care of yourself, you’d have clean clothes, and you wouldn’t smell like cigarette smoke, and you’d definitely remember your debate packet. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Where did you find him?” said a boy smoking a cigarette. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I could see Favell leaning back in his car behind us and smoking a cigarette. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Huh,” he said, and inhaled the last of his cigarette deeply. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He opened his palm to reveal three cigarettes. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Instead, I reached into my book bag, removed a pack of cigarettes, lit one, and exhaled. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Only the day before Francis, in a swish of black cashmere and cigarette smoke, had brushed past me in a corridor. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

After a while he snapped his cigarette butt through the wire onto the near court. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He crushed the cigarette under his fingers and started wheeling across the room. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

She had on her beaver coat, she was smoking a cigarette, and she seemed to be looking in the direction of our game. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Tonight, as I come in, the girls in my room are setting each other's hair with bits of rag and smoking cigarettes with the windows open. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Ruby Archuleta chuckled, lit a cigarette and dragged deeply, let the smoke out pensively. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Immediately, all the people in the waiting room got up and started pacing, agitated, lighting cigarettes, running hands through their hair, or checking their wristwatches. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

She pursed her lips, hung a cigarette between them, but her eyes stayed on Nye. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The banning of cigarettes in restaurants and bars is a powerful social incentive. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The sheriff, for his part, just continues to puff on his cigarette. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The hot metal of the trucks, the reek of diesel fumes, the smoke from the drivers’ cigarettes, all mingle in the thick air. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

And the water just kept gurgling into that field, sending ants scurrying for their lives, while Joe puffed a cigarette, on one of the quietest lavender mornings of this particular spring. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"My God, I need a cigarette," Twinkle exclaimed from above. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

On that version the busty Miss Scarlet lounged on a fainting couch like a panther in a red dress, smoking a cigarette from a long black holder. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Like Duke himself, his native town had long since expanded far beyond cigarette production, turning to millwork first to supply the tobacco industry with cotton bags, and later expanding to manufacture hosiery and other garments. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ida Spavento lowered her gun, took a pack of cigarettes from her pocket, and put one between her lips. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Favell was sitting at the wheel, hatless, a cigarette in his mouth. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Colin saw the waiter put out his cigarette, and then he came over to their table and asked if they wanted anything more. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

He turned and gave the girl a sign, with two lingers near his mouth, that he wanted a cigarette. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Aaron brought me into his house and sat me on his couch and demonstrated how to hold the cigarette so the metal wouldn’t burn me. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I ate the pumpkin pie because the lady said it was in season, and Patrick and Sam smoked more cigarettes. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

She holds half a cigarette between her fingers, but just before she leans forward to kiss him on the cheeks she lets it drop and crushes it with the toe of her sandal. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Women,” says August, lighting his cigarette from behind a cupped hand. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“I wanted to buy a pack of cigarettes,” he mumbled. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Reginald’s letter was newsy, and also it contained this instruction: “Malcolm, don’t eat any more pork, and don’t smoke any more cigarettes. I’ll show you how to get out of prison.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He smelled like cigarettes and cheap trucker cologne. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“Nevertheless,” and Quinn stubbed out his cigarette with elaborate care, “you will have to investigate this impossibility with all the resources of the Corporation.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The confession hovered in the air a moment, before floating away with the smoke rising from her cigarette. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Holding a cigarette at his hip like a riding crop, he walked with clipped steps into the store. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Their laughter trails behind me, lingers like cigarette smoke. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

She remembers that the TV in the living room seemed to be on all the time and that the trailer smelled of cigarette smoke and the cat’s litterbox and mildew. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She takes the fellow prisoner's combined currency of camp money, ration tickets and an additional "tip" for the shoes—two cigarettes wrapped in a bit of newspaper. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The jello was gone in five minutes and the cigarette smoked. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She lit one cigarette after another and kept glancing around the room. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

As they moved through the village, Ellsberg watched a young marine hold the flame of his cigarette lighter to the thatch roof of a hut. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

They lean against a gross of cigarette cartons. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lit his cigarette without straightening out its curvature, then replaced the used match in the box. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

It's so dark he has to use a cigarette lighter, and the flame is so puny, you still can't see to the bottom of the stairs. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled a cigarette from the case, but she didn’t light it. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Gearhart took a deep draw on the cigarette, then seemed to pull himself together. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

X got his cigarette lit, nodded, and said Clay had a real eye for detail. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Between two scraggly bushes is a bench with cigarettes strewn on the ground. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

She took a brisk but voluminous drag on her cigarette. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

He took a deep, shaky pull on his cigarette. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

She's waving her cigarette around and squinting her eyes up and you can tell she's thinking on something, worrying it like a dog with a bone. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Some dopey movie actor was standing near us, having a cigarette. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Before Shin could say a word, they asked him for cigarettes and food—but not for identification. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“So he writes her these letters,” Mei-li went on, lighting another cigarette. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I poked at it with a toe, nose wrinkling at its faint scent of stale cigarette smoke. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Peewee was trying to bum what was left of the leech off my wrist with a cigarette. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Peewee started coughing from the cigarette, and the medic gave him some water. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not when she’s trying to justify trashing their sole means of communication while reeking of cigarette smoke. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Alaska crouched down, picked up the cigarette she had thrown away, and started smoking again. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Robert appeared with cheese and biscuits, and a few minutes later Frith came with the coffee and cigarettes. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Henry reached in his pocket for a cigarette. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Kyril Montana put his notebook away and stubbed out his cigarette. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mariam could not see him from where she stood with Jalil, by the rear bumper, only the smoke of his cigarette curling up from the open window. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Oh, she said she had to get some cigarettes for Jordan. She left just before the lights went off. She said she’d be right back, but she’s been gone for over an hour, I think.” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll take you. You do whatever it is you need to do with the cigarettes, and then we’ll go to the match.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

James smokes a few cigarettes and orders me a beer. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Unwittingly, he had discovered deep within himself a fertile aptitude for smoking with a cigarette holder. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“No, ma’am,” Francis said, wiping at the burned spot and scrambling to hide the cigarette butt as she came down the steps. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Just enough of her hair had escaped to make her look fresh and full like a girl in a cigarette ad. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when the U.S. government asserts that terrorists raise money by selling black-market cigarettes, that acts as a rather jarring moral incentive. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

They reached South Parkway smoking freshly lit cigarettes. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

As we walked, Yakov fished his cigarette case from his pocket. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The smoke from his cigarette curled up from his fingers and slowly faded away. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Threads of smoke floated up from a filterless cigarette whose coal burned dangerously near his fingertips. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Bobby pins held back her lank gray hair, and a cigarette dangled from her mouth. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Speared to a branch beside the trail, in an intentionally prominent place, was an empty pack of Old Gold cigarettes. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, old Jane wouldn't answer him when he asked her if she knew where there was any cigarettes. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

I took a nonchalant puff on my cigarette without breathing in very much. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Gee, Mama, you take all the fun out of things—like not objecting to my black lace pants last year. Well, throw the cigarettes away.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

All week Francie walked home slowly from school with her eyes in the gutter looking for tin foil from cigarette packages or chewing gum wrappers. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Colonel Cathcart winced at the words “black eye” and, without any apparent premeditation, hurled his slender onyx-and- ivory cigarette holder down viciously on the wooden surface on his desk. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The back is covered with graffiti, and I pick my way across broken beer bottles and cigarette butts. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They moved slowly, laughed slowly, but flicked the ashes from their cigarettes too quickly too often, and exposed themselves, to those who were interested, as novices to the habit. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m all out of cigarettes,” Emile declared, patting his pockets. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have forgotten nothing at Grand Isle,” he said, not looking at her, but rolling a cigarette. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lights her cigarette, the flame catching easily despite the dampness of the air. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I lit the cigarette with a match and took a drag. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The smells of food cooking and cigarette smoke mask the reek of waste. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Hugo eeled forward on his chest, over the counter, reached between the rungs of the ladder, just six inches under Mr. Rhydd's Hush Puppies, took a box of Lambert & Butler cigarettes, and eeled back. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The boy took another long drag on his cigarette. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

His mother said, “Here,” and handed him her pack of king-size cigarettes and her match folder. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Charlie lit another cigarette and held the smoke in his lungs. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The sheriff strikes a match and lights his cigarette, then gives a curt nod. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He was smoking a cigarette; there was a newspaper tucked under his arm. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Weed and cigarette smoke linger in the air, and everybody crowds around the boxing ring in the center. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The men stamped out their cigarettes and spread slowly into a semicircle. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

There’s no telling what besides a cigarette may catch fire. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bookman took his hands from behind his head, shook another cigarette out of the pack on the table before him, and lit it. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cloke took a last draw on his cigarette and ground it out with a deliberate, corkscrewing movement. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Doreen lit a new cigarette, blowing a long string of smoke from her mouth. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Mr. Ray sat there smoking a cigarette, flipping through the last few pages of the newspaper. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She must risk her life every time she lights a cigarette. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Meliton Naranjo was sitting in the doorway of the chopper, desultorily hunched over, smoking a cigarette; the pilot had stretched out on the grass nearby. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He asked me if I needed any cigarettes, and when I said no, he patted my shoulder and walked away with this boy. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Once my brothers and I stole a jar and poured the cigarettes out onto the streets. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sounded if she had a cigarette between her lips. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He pulled a packet of Dunhill cigarettes from his jacket pocket, offering them around the compartment before lighting one for himself. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting up, Stephanie lit a cigarette and blew her first exhale out across his stomach. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ten cigars, twenty cigarettes, and two quids of chew per man; now that is decent. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He motions me into his passenger’s seat and lights a cigarette. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then she sighed, reached over and shook out one of my last precious cigarettes and lit up. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Digger had cupped his hands around the cigarette to relight it after the wind put it out. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The principal enterprises of the city were medicine and food-processing and the making of cigarettes. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, what did you do with the envelope?” said Maxim, lighting a cigarette, his tone a mixture of amusement and exasperation. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He cupped a cigarette in his hand the way I thought Humphrey Bogart would have. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also, there were several cartons of cigarettes on the floor, and the clerk mentioned that several cartons of cigarettes were missing. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

Small flames tore at the darkness as matches and cigarette lighters were lit. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm not sure that his cigarette was out of his mouth for more than three seconds at a time. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The building has a festive air: its usual smells of Dustbane and furniture polish and mouse droppings and snakes mingle with other smells, of winter clothing, cigarette smoke, and women’s perfume. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They rolled cigarettes of dried grass in pages of the encyclopedia. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The bar didn’t change; whatever the color of the walls, they were always dirty, dark grime of stale beer and cigarette smoke; it always smelled the same too, a lingering odor of urine and vomit. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She went over to the window seat for her cigarettes, lit one, and returned to her seat on the bed. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Once in the car, Henry lit a cigarette and didn’t say a word. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He lit Daisy's cigarette from a trembling match, and sat down with her on a couch far across the room where there was no light save what the gleaming floor bounced in from the hall. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

She smoked long cigarettes in a silver cigarette holder and learned to blow perfect smoke rings. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took a long last draw from the cigarette and crushed it. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

It spoke to Lefty of jazz-age frivolity, gin cocktails, cigarette girls; it made him slick his hair back with panache . . . while, out in the yard, Desdemona heard the singing and reacted differently. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They say it was a cigarette but none of the guards will admit to giving her one. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of cigarette butts were stamped out on the floor. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perlstein gave me a lighter and sent me down to the north-facing gallery by myself, with instructions to light inmates’ cigarettes. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mashed stubs of cigarettes lay everywhere, in cleansing cream, in a dish of grapes, and on the floor beneath the bed. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Soon he is taking Marie-Laure along on various errands again, teasing her about the mountains of sugar she spoons into her coffee or bantering with warders about the superiority of his brand of cigarettes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He pulled a cigarette butt from his pocket and lit it. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

As is our custom, the women looked after the children on one side of the field, while the men and boys huddled closely on the other, smoking cigarettes and shouting insults at the officials. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

I heard her take a long, angry drag on the cigarette—and that drag was full of defiance and bravado. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Barefoot boys bounced between travelers, their faces invisible behind their trays of chewing gum and cigarettes. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Then he traded it to Link Vitelli for cigarettes, and Link Vitelli kept it for a day—just long enough for me to see him with it at school. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I was having one such fantasy while shelving cigarettes one Saturday morning in July. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

His mouth had a bitter, mannish taste, like tea and cigarettes. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Grace lit another cigarette and rearranged the clues to read: purple waves. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nell takes a drag from a cigarette and blows the smoke from the side of her mouth. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He lit the cigarette and blew out a cloud of smoke. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

After resting he drank a glass of iced coffee and smoked a cigarette. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

After a while he put out the cigarette on the sole of his shoe and came over to sit beside me. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He took a drag on his cigarette that lasted an age, the poser. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The first time Charlie Kahn tried to make me smoke a cigarette, I was eleven years old. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He stubs the cigarette out in the dirt, then drops his head into his hands—wait, what? I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

And he smiled, too, and lit his cigarette, blowing the smoke carefully away from her. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

She lit a fresh cigarette almost at once, and said, as pointedly as she was able, “Anyway, your sister says he’s a brilliant boy. Lane.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Publicity, of course, tends to obscure these numbers, but like the Surgeon General’s warning on cigarette packages, the figures would eventually begin to filter into the public consciousness. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally she reached up and took the cigarette out of her mouth. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The white man smiled at him and lighted for him his cigarette. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Cecilia took a cigarette from a packet by the cooker, and then, remembering that her sister was no longer a child, offered one to her. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He leaned against the door and lit a cigarette. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I think of the boys sharing the cigarette. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

One night, I saw the glow of a cigarette illuminate Jonas’s lace. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He lit a cigarette, offering one to Joe, who said “No thanks, 1 got my own.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He will fall to smoking cigarette after cigarette, not bothering to extinguish them, and the glowing stubs will lie around on the ground like petals. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Royal stared in blank hostility, before, seeming to remember Gabriel’s face, he took a burning cigarette from between his lips, and said, with pained politeness: “How-de-do, sir.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

As he held me close, I breathed in his familiar smell of Vitalis, whiskey, and cigarette smoke. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“That has nothing to do with it,” he said irritably, tamping the cigarette on the back of his wrist. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

After the service while Uhmma helps set out doughnuts and coffee, Apa stands in the corner of the fellowship hall, away from everyone else, smoking a cigarette. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Every few weeks—especially when they were younger—they’d come on a Sunday morning and find empty plastic bottles of vodka, crushed cigarette butts. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

There was no light to see by except the gunfire and the exploding flames—no streetlamps, no cracks of light in any doors or windows, not even the glow of a cigarette end. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

It began to seem that the room smelled like cigarette smoke. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of the first act we went out with all the other jerks for a cigarette. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

He stabbed at the pack of cigarettes, took one out of the pack, and didn’t answer until he lit it. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He reached for his cigarettes in his breast pocket. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I pick up a cigarette and put it back down. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I don’t smoke,” he explained, the cigarette dancing in his mouth as he spoke. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

This girl had possibly saved me, saved me for a single drag of a cigarette. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He bought me cheap gifts: a glass figurine, a prickly brooch of cut glass, a silver- colored cigarette lighter. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took a cigarette from the pack in his shirt pocket and had it halfway to his lips when Aunt Queen spoke. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sits back on the sofa and lights up a cigarette. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

They were smoking cigarettes and reaching out to touch the sweating forms of the starters as they glided past them. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess I’d had one too many, plus my cigarettes were gone, and it was hot. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She loved the feeling of a cigarette between her fingers, the rhythmic rise and fall of it to her lips. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The butt of his cigarette glowed under the shelter of the tree branches. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Her father takes his final cigarette from his shirt pocket and lights it. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Or that people would take photos of her sneaking a cigarette and sell them to gossipy websites? Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I gave three packs to a bug on R who was forever cadging cigarettes and also had an incredible body odor problem. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Monica reaches into her purse and pulls out a pack of cigarettes, hightailing it to the door. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Then I remember the cigarette in my hand and bring it to my lips, only to suck in and immediately cough it out. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Mom fumbled with her cigarettes and lit another. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He lay back in bed smoking a cigarette. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Digger had goaded me, shoving the cigarette in my face. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Max came in, sat, and lit a cigarette. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Tendrils of cigarette smoke rise from clumps of farmers in overalls and dusty feed caps, their tired faces as grimy as coal miners’. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost every girl in the room has her legs crossed, a lit cigarette in her hand. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She must have been rich in cigarettes, and I wondered how she spent them. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Madame Manec takes off her shoes and lights a cigarette and lets out a contented groan. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was on the corner, a newsstand chain: papers, candy, cigarettes. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

His cigarette has burned down to the filter in the ashtray, so he lights another one. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

‘I went round there in person. Her name’s Claudette. She smokes Charisma cigarettes.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Henry tamped the cigarette down on the side of the pack. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

If they were to drive past the park and see me sitting on Eric's lap or sharing a cigarette with Karen, I'd be dead. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then he turned back to Shadow, pointed to his cigarette. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Felicia listens to the conversation as she rolls a cigarette of strong black tobacco. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Do you happen to have any cigarettes, by any chance?--Say 'no' or I'll drop dead." The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Suddenly she threw the cigarette and the burning match on the carpet. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

In the evenings, Barack came home to our place on Euclid Avenue and often flopped on the couch, reeking of the cigarettes he still smoked when he was out of my sight. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Already she had him giving her backrubs and going for cigarettes in the middle of the night. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He was standing by himself in front of some glass doors, his back to the room, smoking a cigarette. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Let’s burn her at the stake,” he said huskily, abruptly lurching forward to stub out his cigarette. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He released her slim, long fingers, passed through the spacious apartment to the living room, which smelled faintly of last night’s cigarettes. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

I froze when I smelled the familiar cologne and cigarettes, wondering what I should do. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The Colonel lit the cigarette with a lighter I’d paid for and took a drag. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Katrina was leaning against the obelisk, dressed now, her hands shaking slightly as she smoked a cigarette. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Doreen wasn't saying a word, she only toyed with her cork placemat and eventually lit a cigarette, but the man didn't seem to mind. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I wonder whether evidence is being washed away, whether right at this moment vital clues are disappearing forever: smears of blood, footprints, DNA-loaded cigarette butts. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Most people smoke. And if you had told them you smoked, they might have given you cigarettes.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

She stuck the gun-shaped cigarette lighter in the waist of her jeans and got out of the Jeep. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He’s so close he’s practically breathing Luna’s reeking cigarette smoke, and when he looks into his face, there’s a flicker of recognition at the bloodshot, blackened eyes and the gaunt cheekbones. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The cigarette holder bounced off the desk to the wall, ricocheted across the window sill to the floor and came to a stop almost where he was standing. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

On the far corner is the all-night Korean deli; two workers, a Korean and a Hispanic, are sitting on crates and smoking cigarettes outside. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad said,You wouldn’t by any chance have a cigarette, would you? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He claimed he’d actually gone to the trailer to bum a cigarette, but the foreman mistook him for a burglar and came after him with a gun. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He struck a match, intending to smoke a cigarette, but something seen by the light of the flaring match brought him to his feet and carried him across the barn to a cow stall. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents confiscated it after little Kia found it in my bedroom and asked them why it smelled like cigarettes. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Sciola rummaged for a light, found it, got his cigarette lit after two or three tries. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Out comes a flashlight, one of those small kinds that look sort of like a cigarette lighter, and also a spool of kite string. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

A man got out and stood near me, smoking a cigarette. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

She put her cigarette out, half smoked, in a little scrolled ashtray on the lamp table beside her. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when Marti came back over an hour later, the cigarette pack was still there. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Defunct timetables papered the walls; cigarette butts and chewing gum were stomped deep into the linoleum. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I’m so ugly now. Do you have a cigarette?” she repeated. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The ash from her cigarette looked ready to drop until she switched all the bags to one hand and flicked the butt behind her, into the parking lot. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Standing beneath the prominently displayed no smoking sign, I distributed the cans and cast my cigarettes upon the table, encouraging my students to go at it. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I smoked a couple of cigarettes, went inside to get a piece of chocolate, and went back to the window to eat it. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Now and then the darkness was punctuated by an orange glow as Chuck Day took another drag on a forbidden cigarette. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He grabbed his wife’s pack of cigarettes from the table and started searching for a lighter. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Max gave him another cigarette and took one for himself. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

That smell—cigarette—it always made me think of him. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

When she inhaled the cigarette tip glowed, and he was able to see her face. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Joe on the floor next to Mama’s bed, right next to the cigarette lighter that she had been looking for this morning. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thought of Dad with a cigarette in hand was very strange. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papá puffed on his cigarette and stared at his right hand with the missing finger. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

In fine weather men sit outside smoking their cigarettes if they have them, looking at the world and watching us play. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

At first glance the scene looks chaotic, but by the time Camel has lit his cigarette, several dozen teams are hitched and moving alongside the flat cars, pulling wagons toward the runs. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

We see the dim orange of my grandfather's cigarette, as he makes his way down the darkening road. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

He took a long drag on his cigarette and let the smoke drift out his nostrils. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

After Old Sunny was gone, I sat in the chair for a while and smoked a couple of cigarettes. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Styx pulled a candy cigarette from his pocket, one-handed. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

She dragged me into a hug that smelled of cigarettes and perfume and made my nostrils itchy. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

A cigarette hung from the tips of her fingers, and her curly bleached hair was pulled back into a messy ponytail. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The blond boy joins us, lighting up a cigarette. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

All night, we smelled their cigarettes in the yard and heard muffled coughs and sneezes. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Guten Tag, Fräulein Engel,” he said cordially, and she dropped her cigarette and crushed it out with her foot and straightened her back and her coat collar all in a rush of practiced panic. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Again he proffered cigarettes and a bag of crackers. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“They put out cigarettes on his back,” Papa said, shaking his head. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He lit another cigarette, and sat down once more on the arm of the sofa. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Those scars, everyone said, were cigarette burns inflicted by his captors during one of those experiences. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was wearing a strong perfume and between her fingers she carried an unlit cigarette. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

His right, pinching a cigarette, was stretched out for the knob on a radio, which the nurses had perched on a stack of magazines. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would check for casualties, call in dustoffs, light cigarettes, try to smile, clear their throats and spit and begin cleaning their weapons. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It could be a cigarette lighter, a gun trigger, the speakers, or a flickering streetlight; it could be anything. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He was rolling a cigarette, dropping tobacco on Mr. Ebgard’s office floor. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

For an extended pensive moment Ruby stood with her hands on her hips, an ash growing long on the cigarette held tightly between her unpainted lips. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brad takes a drag from his cigarette and blows it in Benny’s face. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“That’s affirmative,” Bull said, grinning at his son who fingered the cigarette without a trace of expertise. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next to the dry fountain in the disused square, a group of four boys, young teenagers with fuzz on their lips, stand in a tight circle, passing around a cigarette. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Far away from her cigarettes and her snobbishness, her cliquish friends, her atrocious spelling. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She stands and takes her pack of cigarettes from his desk. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Mom took a drag off her cigarette and stubbed it out in the ashtray. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Talks and smokes cigarettes a lot,” Agent Burger noted in a report. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She handed it across the table to Mrs. Snell, who opened it and took out a pack of mentholated cigarettes and a folder of Stork Club matches. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

And he smokes cigarettes and you can smell them on his breath and I don’t like this. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A dozen people are gathered around a long, scratched-up dining table, smoking cigarettes, drinking Chianti from juice glasses, sitting on a series of backless wooden stools. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I smoked a cigarette with her and we kissed some more. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I have found her two packs of cigarettes. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

After they left, I lay on Francis’s couch, smoking his cigarettes and drinking his Scotch, and watched “Jeopardy.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

A long, slim cigarette was stuck in the end and it was lit. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at great billboards by the side of the road, advertising cigarettes and candy and beer. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A cloud of cigarette smoke hovered over the table, held captive by the closed windows and drapes. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The house smelled like cigarettes and scented candles, a mixture that almost immediately made Toby want to puke again. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“It was given to me by a Vera Cruz girl; they are very generous,” he replied, striking a match and lighting his cigarette. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

A cigarette dangled from the unsmiling corner of his mouth. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

He lit a cigarette and let me in on what he was thinking about doing. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

She drops the cigarette onto the patio and crushes it with her shoe. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Big Brother’s Order for the Day, it seemed, had been chiefly devoted to praising the work of an organization known as FFCC, which supplied cigarettes and other comforts to the sailors in the Floating Fortresses. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Joe spit the cigarette butt from his lips and, swinging the crowbar like a baseball bat, expertly caught the butt, lining it across the yard at his antagonist, missing him only by inches. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fie handed me cigarettes and matches from his pockets before entering a small cubicle with a curtain for a door. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sissy reluctantly let them have it after explaining that the box contained cigarettes and was only to hold and to look at and not under any circumstances to be opened. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Can you imagine your father selling you for a tablecloth, a hen, and a handful of cigarettes? The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

The man is Polish, smoking cigarettes, with a pink nose and his collar turned up around his ears, his gun leaning against the farm gate. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Nagelman lit a cigarette, realizing that he wasn’t going to be able to rush Sheriff Dean. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He lit one of the cigarettes, and blew a cloud of smoke into the air. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

‘Why are you lighting cigarettes and not smoking them?’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

I smoked a cigarette and had a cup of coffee. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Traft shifted in his chair, dropped the cigarette in his pocket and smirked at me. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He took a deep breath and blew out like he was smoking an imaginary cigarette. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Ojukwu lit a cigarette and threw it down on the lawn. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Perry, on the other hand, was without appetite; he subsisted on root beer, aspirin, and cigarettes. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He drops his cigarette on the cement and stamps it out with his foot. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He exhaled a thin stream of filtered smoke and aimed the cigarette’s ashes like a marksman directly at the center of his ashtray. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was one about a girl trying to sell her cigarettes: Please buy my cigarettes. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shame for him, really, as a lit cigarette is such a convenient accessory if your job happens to be Extracting Information from Enemy Intelligence Agents. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“They won’t let me have any. They even get my cigarettes for me.” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered if they would let him have candy cigarettes in the hospital. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I had never smoked before, but took a quick puff on the cigarette and tried to pass it away. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

She then sat quietly for a little interval, without reaching for her cigarette pack and matches. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Putting out a lit cigarette against the side of her new sweet ride. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

I don’t dare tell him I’m selling my cigarette ration. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

There was a silver box of cigarettes on the table. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

With almost inappropriate grace, she pulled a cigarette from a package of Lucky Strikes. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In amongst the tobacco tug, Georgia Penn very kindly handed me what was left of her own cigarette. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He spun away, fumbling in his pocket for the pack of candy cigarettes. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Adena tobacco, a different species from the tobacco in cigarettes today, contains several hallucinogens and five to ten times as much nicotine— enough, all told, to make it psychoactive. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Guitar fished for a cigarette and offered one to Milkman. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said: “He asked for cigarettes, too, but I don’t think he ought to have them.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

So ours is a world of pain—managed by Excedrin and Advil, compensated for with cigarettes and, in one or two cases and then only on weekends, with booze. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dumped the ashes from his palm into a heavy green glass ashtray piled high with the crumpled remnants of previous cigarettes. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Mother pulled two graceful puffs through her long fingers and then put it out quickly, rationing her own cigarette. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He had been caught stealing cigarettes from under the pillow of an Englishman. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Speak to him," he said, getting quickly to his feet and mashing his cigarette into the tray with shaking fingers. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took the cigarette out of his mouth and stared at it, rolling it between his thumb and forefinger, then put it back. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

All around me, women sit and smoke cigarettes, tip them into glass ashtrays on the floor. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It’s high time somebody did something, said the woman behind the counter, at the store where I usually bought my cigarettes. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So I didn’t see your papers, but I did spy cigarettes in your pocket,” I told him, wiping my hands. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Next he rolled a cigarette, and, quietly smoking, he listened woozily to faint meadowlark songs drifting melodically on the clear summer air. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But his mother made him some hot broth instead, and put him to bed in his cigarette box with a doll’s hot-water bottle against his feet. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I was almost in the room with her when she dyed it. What’s the matter? Aren’t there any cigarettes in there?” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

If they were stationed near a village, they could exchange soldier’s luxuries such as tobacco, cigarettes, and sugar for milk and eggs. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

But maybe cigarettes would help stunt the rest of her growth. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“COOSA LIQUORS’ entire business model is built around selling cigarettes to minors and alcohol to adults.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

In bars, on street comers, in passing cars, on buses, at the beach—people grew it in their home gardens and smoked it like cigarettes. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

She lighted the cigarette and put her arms around her knees. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Glass finished lighting a fresh cigarette before she committed herself. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

And then the two of us, before we could even get to our feet, saw him light a cigarette, grow tall, and become a stranger. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I walked quietly out of the room, she took what seemed to be a long, satisfying drag on her cigarette. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

She bent and put out her cigarette against the inside of the metal wastebasket. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

They were sharing a cigarette, neither noticing Luke standing in the doorway. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

We fill Oscar in on all the particulars of the unlocked door and cigarette butts. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

I lit a cigarette and I heard a song floating out over the sunlit air. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She laughed, she dropped cigarette ash on the floor. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Just above her ankle is a tiny black circle the size of a cigarette burn. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents barbecued, smoked cigarettes, and played cards with my aunt, but my father also took long breaks to join us kids in the pool. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“I’ll be right back,” he says, and disappears to have a cigarette. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Milton looked down at the coins for a moment and then went and got the cigarettes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I stayed in the car I lit a cigarette, to steady myself, and drew the smoke in, a long breath of counterfeit relaxation. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

No cigarette stubs, no jackets or combs—especially male ones—can be left behind. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It smelled like cold popcorn and burned-out cigarettes. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

We’d be tucked in our beds or lying under blankets in the desert, the world dark except for the orange glow from his cigarette. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He studies the ornate balconies like a burglar, gazes through the blue panes of stained glass until he spots her with the Spaniard, naked and sharing a cigarette. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night, he told the warder he would write the essay in exchange for a pack of cigarettes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The thing is,” she said, flippantly lighting a cigarette, “they aren’t going to find Jose. You can be assured of that.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the deck tilted back and forth, Captain Kontoulis didn’t stumble once, and was even able to light one of the Indonesian cigarettes he favored, dipping his cap’s braided brim to cut the wind. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

If Mr. Dalton, Britten or Peggy missed him and asked him where he had been, he would say that he had gone out to get a package of cigarettes. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

They were smoking huge cigarettes they had rolled in newspaper. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was smoking a cigarette, which he wasn’t supposed to do in the kitchen, but Yang Sze-Fu mostly did what he wanted. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched his right arm as he did, with its six shiny, hairless, cigarette end-size circles. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re not weak. You just don’t use your head,” the gray-haired man said, accepting a freshly lighted cigarette from the girl. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Moira, sitting on the edge of my bed, legs crossed, ankle on knee, in her purple overalls, one dangly earring, the gold fingernail she wore to be eccentric, a cigarette between her stubby yellow-ended fingers. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The armrests were equipped with ashtrays and cigarette lighters. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Finally, I got up and went out in the living room and got some cigarettes out of the box on the table and stuck some in my pocket. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

When he left, was around Christmas I think, he gave me fifty bucks and a pack of cigarettes for lettin’ him stay here. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In one is a World War Two airplane, in the style of a cigarette card; in the other is a large pale-green luna moth. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Having reserved his limited cash for the cigarettes and snacks he gave to border guards, he had eaten little in recent days. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

According to the Geneva Convention you’re allowed to send useful things to prisoners of war—cigarettes, toothbrushes, fruitcakes with hacksaws inside. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He threw his burning cigarette onto our clean living room floor and ground it into the wood with his boot. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He was also apt to sell the watches and cigarette cases given him, fondly and with pretty blushes, by his aunt’s friends. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

She lit a cigarette while she waited for the call to go through. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The Owl Club had a bar where groups of men with sunburned necks huddled together over beers and cigarettes. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I felt the ball in the base of my throat hardening as I watched him pull a cigarette from his pack and stick it between his lips. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Switching the ashtray over to his left hand, he went up to the night table and, with the edge of his right hand, swept his father’s cigarette stubs and ashes into the ashtray. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Once they pull a cigarette out of their respective packs, they walk single file through a red door, passing Nurse Monica, whose job is to light everybody up. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I watched him light a cigarette, thinking, What on earth is this all about? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She drew her dressing gown around her, and patted its pocket, probably in the hope of a cigarette. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Alaska had cigarettes, although the Colonel neglected to ask whether 4. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Augustus looked over at me, cigarette still in his mouth, and half smiled. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

A haze of cigarette smoke drifted through the room. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lit a cigarette, as if she had not heard his question. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The look on Raymond’s face changed, but he didn’t say anything for a minute, and then he asked, in a meek voice, if he could pick up his cigarette. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

The guard led them straight to the man he’d given a cigarette to. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She wanted a cigarette, but after what had just happened—and in full view of her mother and ten firemen—she didn’t dare light one. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The 1970s were the years of Nixon’s visit to China, the advent of Transcendental Meditation, cigarette advertising being banned from the airwaves, and fast-food chains multiplying. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He let the cigarette fall from his fingers and took a step towards me. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Lily closed her eyes and leaned back, absently fishing for a cigarette again until she remembered the pack was empty. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“I was standing next to a kid in the supermarket who had to show his I.D. to buy cigarettes,” Alpert told me. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A cigarette dangled from parrotfish lips that were puffy and painted the color of sliced mangoes. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The cigarette was finished by the time Mr. Ebgard spoke again. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Tsukiko takes a long drag from her cigarette before she continues. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He stood watching her as she left the room, with her poster and her cigarette; a few ashes had fallen to the floor where she'd been standing. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“You might not want to get that near my lit cigarette.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

When they were gone, Doreen took another long hit on the cigarette before she turned to Luke and said, “I’m having a friend over for dinner tonight. So I’ll need you here to help.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

It was remarkable how many cartons ofbeer and cigarettes the car could hold. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

At five, he started smoking, picking up discarded cigarette butts while walking to kindergarten. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Along the way, we come across the cigarette, money, and jacket scabs, and the father rounds them all up and gets them together. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Once there was even a packet of cigarettes. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Finally, I sat up in bed and smoked another cigarette. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

He took a pack of cigarettes from his shirt pocket, tapped one out, then put away the pack and rebuttoned the pocket flap. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

My mind saw a clean and pressed uniform, with a nest of wicked snakes sprouting out of his neck, or a skull with hollow black eyes, smoking a cigarette. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I study their hands lifting the cigarettes in the darkness of the movie theaters, the slope of a shoulder, the angle of a hip. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Phoebe, have you been smoking a cigarette in here? Tell me the truth, please, young lady." The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Marti watched as a CIA technician, toiling away in the cramped embassy office, carefully assembled a dead-drop package designed to look like a beat-up pack of cigarettes. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

A cigarette dangled on his lower lip as his mouth fell open and his eyes stared. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Oblivious to the charms of the moonlight, Agent Jones stood outside the volcano compound, removed his gloves, and lit up his last cigarette of the night. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

She lets the curtain fall once he has entered, leaving them enclosed in darkness studded with dimly sparkling lights, the glowing tip of her cigarette the one spot of color amongst the dots of white. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Apart from her arm travelling with the cigarette holder up to her lips on average every twelve seconds, she was still. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he came back, he smelled like cologne and cigarettes. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The waitress saw Styx slip his candy cigarette from his pocket. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He lit a cigarette, one of the unfiltered Pakistani cigarettes he and Baba were always smoking. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Still holding her cigarette between her first two fingers, she leaned forward and picked up her wineglass in her cigarette-holding hand. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sprinkled, she ironed a bit, she reached back to get her cigarette, she took a puff, she blew it out over her shoulder, then she started all over. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

It still has a hole in the sleeve, from the time we smoked secret cigarettes on the balcony. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Lana stuck a cigarette between her coral lips and lit it. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In exchange for gasoline, Lima and other New Orleans police officers broke into convenience stores and took cigarettes and chewing tobacco. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Some evenings, Lita’s friends were over, speaking Polish and smoking cigarettes. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She stubbed out the cigarette in the ashtray. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Someone in front of me lit a cigarette. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lit a cigarette and smiled at me. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Accordingly, she backs me up when I get overpowered on the floor, and in return I give her a chunk of my tips or stand guard while she sneaks off for an unauthorized cigarette break. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The odds would change back and forth all night and they fed the negro rum and lighted cigarettes for him. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I glance over my shoulder—Adam is standing outside the hallway with sleepy eyes and an unlit cigarette in his hand. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Last I seen, Char was rubbing her eyes and handing out drinks, Juju was shaking her hips and smoking a cigarette, yelling for somebody to turn up the music. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

He got out tobacco and papers and rolled a clumsy, lumpy cigarette. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

As for me, I couldn’t take my eyes off his cigarette. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The only sign of life was the lit cigarette smoldering between her fingers. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He took his watch, his silver pencil and pad, his cigarettes and matches from the mantel and distributed them among his pockets. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He said he’d bring me cigarettes and Hershey’s chocolate when he came back, and I was very thrilled at the time, I’m sure, but, jeez, oh man. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked a burning cigarette—the girl’s—out of the ashtray and started to bring it to his mouth, but it slipped out of his fingers. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“Because I have his fingerprints on the cigarette pack,” Mac said, “and I can blackmail him.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

By sunset, I’m on my way back to Bartlett, cutting through the heart of Indianapolis, smoking my fourth American Spirit cigarette in a row. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He lit a cigarette, surely the twenty-fifth that day, and we had only just finished lunch; he threw the match into the empty grate, he picked up the paper. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I think your dream is charming, and I hope it recurs frequendy so that we can continue discussing it. Would you like a cigarette?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Glass put out her cigarette against the inside of the wastebasket again. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

He took a pack of cigarettes out of his jacket pocket and tapped the bottom so that one of them flipped up. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had to wave my hand in front of my eyes to clear a patch in the fog of cigarette smoke that filled the room. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

And the fact that I gave him one of my cigarettes. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

He hangs up and then pushes me outside, where he lights up a cigarette. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He watched the others go, his face gloomy as he kicked an empty cigarette packet and struck the wall with his fist. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He’d often smelled of the same sort of tobacco, aromatic, a little strong, but, unlike cigarette smoke, pleasant. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Kino was finished and was rolling a cigarette when Juana spoke sharply. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

A whole army was fleeing to the coast, armed with cigarettes to keep the hunger away. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Smoking cigarettes was like sucking on the exhaust pipe of a car with a running motor. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

There’s a woman with a shawl sitting on the fourth flight smoking a cigarette. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Marie’s in the office finishing the part-time drivers’ cashout receipts, smoking a long menthol cigarette, and listening to a hard rock radio station. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The cigarettes must have come from the black market, I thought, and this gave me hope. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad hadn’t come home that night, but when I climbed through the back window with my suitcase, I saw him sitting at the bottom of the stone steps, smoking a cigarette. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I reached out to hand the man a cigarette. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

He once gave them puffs from his cigarette and got annoyed because they had sucked it and wet the filter with spit. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room smells of old cigarette smoke, old rubber, the worn intimacy of cloth too long against flesh. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

His other instructions: When guards ask for identification, give them a few cigarettes and a package of crackers, along with small amounts of cash. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Plus, there were extra food rations, cigarettes, and other luxuries that weren't available to just anyone. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

I know I look like a big baby for crying but can’t help it as I think of him leaning against a building, a cigarette dangling from his lips. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

They idled away an hour with nervous jokes, and handed cigarettes about. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Sylvia made a little sound, almost like a laugh, and tossed her cigarette to the ground. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

After waiting a long time, Myers drove down the street to a grocery store to buy cigarettes. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

And we would listen to their arguments while Mr. Diamant sat back and smoked cigarette after cigarette. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Inside, cigarette butts and food wrappers littered the floors. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The smoke from their cigarettes hung close around them in the still air. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She places her palms together, curls of smoke from her cigarette rising over her fingers. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He extricated a cigarette, offered one to Joe, who declined, and to Koontz, who just batted the air irritatedly by way of refusal. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could not remember when he first knew that cigarettes would make him vomit if he ate them. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Thank you,” he said as he stubbed out the half-smoked cigarette. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The second was a girl aboard a Caribbean cruise ship in 1939, who threw her cigarette lighter at a porpoise. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

He smells faintly of cigarettes and leather, a reassuring smell that reminds me of my grandfather. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

A few days later, I sit in the hot kitchen, bored, smoking a cigarette, something I can’t seem to stop doing lately. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Nicholson let one leg drop over the side of the deck chair, leaned forward, and stepped on his cigarette end. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

But there have been fresh footprints leading to and from the casita and a pile of cigarette butts, as if someone without an ashtray has thrown them out the window. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Aaron took three or four breaths of his metal cigarette and made the room smell musty and hot, then announced: “Let’s motivate, son! What do you want to get?” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I made myself a cup of coffee and smoked a cigarette. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Styx twirled the candy cigarette over his knuckles. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

His hands were shaking and he almost dropped the cigarette. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He paused to light a cigarette and refill his cup of coffee. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, it’s kind of been like finding out that the Tooth Fairy doesn’t exist, or catching Santa smoking cigarettes in the Macy’s parking lot. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Serena winds, the cigarette held in the corner of her mouth smoldering, sending out tempting smoke. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He smelled like spiced meat and car oil, which already was an unsettling combination before a whiff of cigarette smoke was added to the mix. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

My mother was putting out a cigarette and starting to make pound cake for lunch. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He studied his pack of cigarettes for a minute. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Colonel reached in his pocket for a pack of cigarettes. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

He finds Rafael Luna hunched at his office’s open window, sucking down a cigarette. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Every time I opened my eyes, I saw the burning tip of Papa’s cigarette glowing in the dark; other times I heard the rattle of his aspirin bottle. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Franny suddenly tried with one hand alone to get a light for her cigarette. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Before leaving her apartment he’d tossed the magazine in the garbage, along with the ends of the three cigarettes he always smoked in the course of his visits. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

But there were cigarettes—Ferdi pulled a handful from his pocket—and everyone lit up, even me. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Milkman fished for another cigarette and watched dawn eclipse the electric light over the sink. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It's not serious I hope. Will you have a cigarette?” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

As he talked he smoked three cigarettes, crushing them in a saucer by the side of her bed. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Then he flicked the cigarette he was smoking into the yard, closed the front door, loped over to the car, and told Mom to move aside—-he was driving. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

No sooner had the crowd thinned than a black boy with a cigarette jutting from his mouth came up to me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The view was lovely—the rolling swell of the Cohutta Mountains, brushed with a bluish haze the color of cigarette smoke, running away to a far-off horizon. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re ruining your lungs with that thing” was the first remark out of her mouth besides a cough from a misdirected puff from my cigarette. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Other times he would sit at the desk without a smile, writing silently while cigarette smoke filled the apartment. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know where there’s a whole case of cigarettes. If you promise not to beat me up, I’ll show you.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nervously, she transferred the hankie from one hand to the other, coiled it between her fingers, unwound it, squeezed it in a ball, took it in the other hand, lit another cigarette. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

A few minutes earlier, she had wandered off to smoke her last cigarette before showtime. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He straightened his back so that the girl could reach behind him for the cigarettes. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

He was the opposite of his flashy brothers, who drove Cadillac convertibles and fraternized with the shapely waitresses and cigarette girls employed at their father’s casinos. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hilly jumps and drops her cigarette into the gravel. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Madame Crommelynck’s hand told me to stay where I was when I got up to light her cigarette. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

A couple of them had had the sense to grab their cigarettes. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

But with crackers and cigarettes they could often buy their freedom from hungry police and soldiers. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

In front of the doll, there are three fresh candles, a pack of cheap cigarettes, an open can of Tecate, a bowl of apples, and a white rose starting to brown at the edges. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

At my midmorning break I join Pete, one of the two cooks on duty in the main kitchen, for a cigarette date. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

While numerous loud threats were exchanged, and some halfhearted pushing and shoving went on, Ruby Archuleta lazed over to a grassy slope, sat down, and bemusedly smoked a cigarette. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two young mechanics in loose jumpsuits smoke cigarettes with oil- creased hands. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had holes burned in her face, like someone had taken a cigarette to her. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

At the sixteenth floor was Aaron, holding his front door open, rap music about killing people on in the background, holding his metal cigarette out for me. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The man with the sore on his mouth shuffled his feet and dropped the stub of his cigarette to the ground. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She fidgeted with the cigarette like she was dying to put it to her lips and light it, and didn’t seem to know what she was supposed to be doing. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I walked to the cigarette counter, where the same girl I had talked with every day waited on me. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

From time to time they get up, unbuckling themselves laboriously, and hobble to the back of the plane, to smoke cigarettes and line up for the washroom. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

On coins, on stamps, on the covers of books, on banners, on posters, and on the wrapping of a cigarette packet—everywhere. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Andy was a funny kid,” Hickock said, smiling lopsidedly as he propped a cigarette between his lips. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He paused, puffed on his cigarette, and struggled with a cough. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Then, Bones said, the principal very slowly lit a cigarette and smoked it, blowing rings of smoke in Bones’ face all the while. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman stabbed her cigarette into a bucketful of sand. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“I was smoking a cigarette,” was his reply. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

And there were a number of cigarette burns on both desks. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

“He was only three. It was just last year,” Boo Boo said, taking out a pack of cigarettes and a folder of matches from a side pocket in her jeans. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

We often dip into it, and the tough ham sausages, the tins of liver sausages, the conserves, the boxes of cigarettes rejoice our hearts. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he pictured Shoba with Gillian, in a bar with striped velvet sofas, the one they used to go to after the movies, making sure she got her extra olive, asking Gillian for a cigarette. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Don’t forget my cigarettes,” Lice Peeking told her. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The men smoked one cigarette after another, an occasional sigh was heard, somebody made another trip to the potty, and then everything began all over again. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She sat up in bed and lit a cigarette. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Awkwardly, for she still had her cigarette, she picked up the vase and balanced it on the rim of the basin. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He reached into his pocket and pulled out a silver cigarette box. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The lawman takes out a pinch of tobacco and begins rolling a cigarette. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Styx reached into his pocket for his candy cigarette pack. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Half a dozen brats turned with expressions of derision, and Lyra threw her cigarette down, recognizing the cue for a fight. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

In this confectioner’s we used to eat ices, and there we learned to smoke cigarettes. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It came out even in the gesture with which he thrust a hand into his pocket, or manipulated a cigarette. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Grover reassured him again, but was so close to guffawing that he had to stub out his cigarette and drink some water. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she puffed on the cigarette the tip glowed in the dark. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

She then took a cigarette from Lane’s pack on the table, and he lit it for her and one for himself. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

She looked for a cigarette, but didn’t find one. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lissa held up a framed photograph of Miss Lilian sitting on the lion bench, frowning at the camera, eyes squinted against the sun, a cigarette in one hand and a glass in the other. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Christ, it’s cold,” he said, and took a pack of cigarettes out of his pocket. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

For Alex it was an eerie experience, tiptoeing behind the other four men, watching as they dismantled the two devices, using cigarette smoke to expose the otherwise invisible beam. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I scavenged through the Russian’s frozen pockets and took cigarettes, a flask, a large sausage wrapped in paper, his gun, and ammunition. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“So, King,” he says, leaning in closer—close enough I can smell he’s been smoking those cigarettes again. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

I hastily intervene and give him a cigarette. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned, opened his mouth as if to speak, but instead merely gave Aunt Queen a hard look as he put the cigarette back. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took a deep drag on his cigarette, squinted his right eye as he exhaled. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In a tin in my overcoat pocket. Also a blue enamel pillbox. And my cigarettes. Will you go get them for me?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

A far cry from scabbing money, cigarettes, and jackets. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Those who smoked would awaken to find a carton of cigarettes and an assortment of disposable lighters, while the others would receive an equivalent, each according to his or her vice. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I took, a puff on the cigarette, and I could hear Lorraine’s voice saying I was killing myself. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

He lights a cigarette and watches, head tilted, as if I am interesting. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Lee!” he calls behind him as he stubs out his cigarette beneath his boot. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She had never held a pack of cigarettes before. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She takes the cigarette back from the woman in red, holds it to her mouth, lets her hand rest in the air a moment, all five fingers outspread. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

All night long, men moved through the darkness outside their tents like tongueless wraiths with cigarettes. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Or plan to smoke a cigarette behind the coal house. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He lit a cigarette and stretched himself full length upon the bed. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He lit a cigarette and blew out smoke leisurely. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he folded the page into a pocket and dropped the heavy Bible on the cigarette case and gold coins, showing the crew the route they must take. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

He wondered if he should have sold her the pack of cigarettes and if it were really harmful for kids to smoke. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Another drag, which used up the rest of the cigarette so rapidly the red-hot end of it burned back into his fingers. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It was eerie, that he could tell when I wanted a cigarette. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“They no longer roam through the towns, hunting for mischief. They are in uniform, marching with the Hitler Youth. They have no time for cigarettes, dancing, flasks, lipsticks, automobiles, or movies.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Don't worry about that,” she said soothingly, and in the second or two during which she drew deeply on her cigarette, Briony flinched as her hopes lifted unreally. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He finds a cigarette behind his ear and lights it. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Oh my God. What’s going on?” she says, stubbing out her cigarette and leaping up. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I tell him that’s my mother’s song and he’s to stop singing it but he just puffs on his cigarette and walks away and I wonder why people have to sing other people’s songs. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He struck a match and lit a cigarette, briefly illuminating his face. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I didn’t like having to explain to them, so I just shut up, smoked a cigarette, and looked at the sea. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

China lit a cigarette and cooled her irons. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He keeps a permanent bottle of gin on a small, shaky wooden table in the corner, and a carton of Newport cigarettes next to it, along with a few military medals. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

When Papa returned, he smoked another cigarette, took two aspirin, and went to bed. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She gave him a gold cigarette case inlaid with diamonds. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He took a puff from the cigarette and stared down at the red sand floor. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I set it down and looked at her—oblivious, smoking a cigarette, scarcely two feet away. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Augustus reached into the center console, flipped open a full pack of cigarettes, and removed one. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Cordelia with a cigarette in the corner of her mouth, her eyelids half closed, trying for sultry. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t sure if she was crying at the thought of having to give up cigarettes or because Salim might not come back safely. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told me that his parents fight constantly, about politics and cigarettes and all kinds of things. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Florence, who smoked the cigarette in the circus, had a hard cough. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Colonel lit a cigarette, threw it to me, and lit one of his own. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“That gives me some place to start,” old Betonie said, lighting up the little brown cigarette he had rolled. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

In a dramatic gesture, Shackleton took his gold cigarette case and a handful of gold coins from his pocket and dropped them on the snow. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The defense wants you to think that this case is about the character of Mr. Bolden, who bought cigarettes. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

He reached into his pocket and pulled out two packs of cigarettes. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“She said I could have one,” I say, not wanting to admit to the cigarette. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor chuckled amiably and lit another cigarette. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He took another long drag on his cigarette and let it drop to the ground. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the cigarette was gone and its light crushed in the ashtray Bones was excused. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Luke said it, his mom reached for a cigarette and lit it without looking at Luke. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

When he saw me, he flicked a smoldering cigarette butt in my direction. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Then, late that summer, a fabric merchant fell asleep and forgot to put out his cigarette. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I heard Lily flick the cigarette butt across the yard in expert fashion. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

She shrugged her shoulders, blowing a great cloud of cigarette smoke into the air. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Even when the shuttle stopped at a hotel and a man who smelled like old cigarettes sat next to me and said hello, I did not turn to look. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“You should have seen it, when the order came through to destroy the stores. Twenty thousand cigarettes. We took whatever we wanted.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She puts a candy cigarette between her lips. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

He lit himself a cigarette and leaned against the wall. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

They gave him packages of cigarettes, but they lay on the floor, unopened. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Men in baseball caps and tank tops played pool, clouds of cigarette smoke hovering over the green tables, swirling in the fluorescent light. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mom sucked on the cigarette like it was the only thing anchoring her to the world. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Other inmates paid up to five packs of cigarettes for one of these little works of art. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miep drank ten schnapps and smoked three cigarettes—could this be our temperance advocate? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

It seems ironic that the commanders considered the boys old enough to fight but not old enough to smoke: The youngest recruits were given candy instead of the usual cigarette ration that older soldiers received. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

In one he’d enclosed a picture of himself posing atop a bomb with a cigarette dangling from his lips. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

So, I lit another cigarette and looked at his face again, and thought hard, and that’s when I figured it out. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The air stank of sweat and unwashed bodies, of feet, urine, cigarette smoke, and antiseptic. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The cigarette dangled unlit from the unsmiling corner of his mouth. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

If I light up a cigarette, all my mother’s really worried about is that I’m going to bum a hole in the rug. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Cecile and the cab driver lit up cigarettes as we drove on. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I jammed out my cigarette on my shoe and put it in my pocket. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you just love it when they roll up their sleeves and tuck the cigarette pack inside?” she’ll say. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The caretaker was asked to repeat the part about the coffee and the cigarette. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

I add some cigarettes, in the sides of their mouths, a few pistols and other hardware, and boots. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly all I can see is their gray-tinged clothes that smell like Frank’s cigarette smoke and their ratty hair that never got combed in the morning. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“You’re always sorry,” her mom added bitterly, before sucking on her cigarette. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“You’re not staying for dinner, Ky. Drink the coffee, take the cigarettes if you want, but then leave, please. Actually, I’m not asking you to leave, I’m telling you to leave, do you understand?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man leaned against the bumper, taking a drag off a cigarette. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She got back into bed and lit the cigarette and took a quick, red-hot inhale. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

We spent all morning burning candles—well, and occasionally lighting cigarettes off the burning candles after we stuffed a towel into the crack at the bottom of her door. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

She told me my clothes smelled like cigarettes after the last party. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Three members of the Senile Brigade wearing beat-up old cowboy hats sat in the front seat, and another younger man neither Bloom nor Linda recognized squatted in the back, smoking a cigarette. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I always thought the high life, the cigarettes, would see her off. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She had a cigarette, and she put it between her lips and gripped it there while she lit it. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d put five sticks in an empty cigarette pack, and drop the empty-looking pack by a lamppost, or behind a garbage can, or a box. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I get back downstairs, Kate is standing at the sink smoking a cigarette out the kitchen window, her hand dangling over the sill. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Restlessly, he felt in his pocket for a cigarette. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“What’s it his business? Milo’s not carrying cigarette lighters too now, is he?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Johnny Cakes was sitting by himself at a little table outside, smoking a cigarette. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Obediently, the men all stood with him, flicking cigarette butts into the damp brush and they spread out to start beating the bushes again. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She received packs of Newport cigarettes—the commissary’s most popular brand—as payment. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In those days being near any stranger was better than thinking alone about the cigarettes and beer and meat that he wanted. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He was reaching for another cigarette, and the last, untouched, was still smoldering in the ashtray. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Teenagers stood on the steps and watched, some lighting cigarettes, others slipping fingers behind their sunglasses to wipe hidden tears. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Wilcox ground his foot on my shoe like he was putting out a cigarette. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He flipped it open and put a cigarette between his lips. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Soldiers sat in their bunkers, smoking cigarettes, shelling all day, and firing cannons at the hills all night long. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Dad sits with his back to the wall, his eyes open under the peak of his cap, and he smokes when the guards give him cigarettes. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He was going through his pockets looking for matches to light his cigarette. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look out at Mam at the kitchen table, smoking a cigarette, drinking tea, and crying. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Red Cross volunteers with white armbands stand at the edge of the work site and hand out cigarettes and sandwiches. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Like the boys, some of them smoked cigarettes. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He had a faint, dry smell of herbs, an echo of the pothead smell that always lingered in the dusty corridors of Durbinstall: patchouli oil, clove cigarettes, incense. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She talks about very little else except maybe how expensive cigarettes are. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

And so she continued, at the same pace, to sweep the dust, cigarette ends, and lozenge wrappers from the rest of the steps, until she reached the letter boxes at the bottom. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I lit her skinny girly cigarette, put my lighter back in my pocket, and didn’t say anything. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Henry had stopped tapping the unlit cigarette on the side of the pack; it dangled loosely between his fingers. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Not really,” he said, then lit a cigarette and handed it to me. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

He ducked and the milk missed him, smashing into the cigarette cabinet behind him and sending milk and cigarettes splattering everywhere. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took out his cigarette case and lit one of his tiny cigarettes. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, Sam and Patrick and I went to the Big Boy and smoked cigarettes. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“So what happened? You lose?” asked the gray-haired man, taking another drag on his cigarette. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

People came and they left trash behind and cigarette butts and beer bottles. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I settled my hands back down on my hips, recalling an afternoon in early April when Digger said he had something to show us—and the “something” turned out to be a cigarette. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

She struck one and held it to her uncle’s cigarette. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She sat bolt upright and put her arms across her chest to cover up, still holding the cigarette. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Milkman put his cigarette out and reached for another one. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He makes the stub of his cigarette glow. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He was exhorting someone to throw away a cigarette. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He started to offer Stuart a cigarette but when he noticed how small he was, he changed his mind. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I talked to her too. He said he was going out for cigarettes, but that was an hour ago. You did see him? You haven’t talked to him?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Most times, she just sits there pulling from a plain ol’ cigarette and talking to her clients about any- and everything. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

A few people smoked cigarettes, and some, only the white people, sipped ice water the deputies had brought in. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Ruby stood there, a beer and a cigarette in one hand, reading through the names on the petition. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took a long drag of his cigarette. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

She put the tray down on the cigarette table, pushing all these glasses out of the way. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

And so everything is new and brave, red poppies and good food, cigarettes and summer breeze. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the mom kept wiping his face in between taking drags off her cigarette. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe she would beat him at poker, smoke cigarettes with him late into the night once they found a way to be together instead of several states apart. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

With a cup of coffee in one hand and an unlit cigarette in the other, Mom sat beside me on the couch. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Then something made me look over to my left at a figure standing by the cigarette machine. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom sucked on her cigarette; the cherry flared. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Karim tossed his cigarette and produced a hand­gun from his waist. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The cigarette butts that Yolanda found in the Coke cans could have been put in while Vivian was outside the house, or they could have been put there by someone else. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d stolen a twelve-ounce bottle of beer, one bottle of Wild Irish Rose, two packs of Newport cigarettes, and about a hundred dollars in cash. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Holding our cigarette in my hand, I thought on this question for a long while. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Mr. McArdle abruptly propped himself up on one elbow and squashed out his cigarette stub on the glass top of the night table. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Before the agent could extinguish his cigarette and find his gun, Taylor caught his jaw in a roundhouse kick, the same one she’d perfected in countless aerobic kickboxing classes. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

She leads me through sliding glass doors, outside to the patio, where she lights a cigarette. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She had stuffed a towel into the bottom of our door and insisted it was safe, but I worried— about the cigarette and the “girlfriend.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Then I saw him pull out a cigarette. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shakes his head and asks the sergeant’s wife is there any chance of a cigarette. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He listened unconsciously to all the sounds that had begun his day for twenty years and lit the first of the ten cigarettes that he smoked every day. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guard took the cigarettes and gestured for Shin to pass. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He opened it, and offered a cigarette to Shadow. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

She got the cigarette going, inhaled deeply, and let it out, slowly, satisfy- ingly. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She was shaping her cigarette ash on the side of the fresh ashtray the waiter had brought, her mouth not quite closed. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

The end of her cigarette glowed like a bright, probing eye. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A cigarette in bed was the tombstone marking each day’s end and the reed through which she breathed herself back to life each morning. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Frank is fiddling with his cigarette in his recliner during a commercial break, which is enough for me to start across the main room—crawling so there’s no chance he’ll notice me. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

But still Mr. Evans goes around selling the cigarettes that connect him with the crime! Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lives on cigarettes and black coffee, swearing like a rap star and calculating spreadsheets in her head. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

She used them to light her secret cigarettes, the ones she thought she was hiding from her daughters. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

She paused and rolled herself another thin cigarette. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

And then I could taste her again, the wine and the cigarette smoke and the Chap Stick and Alaska, and I wondered if she had kissed me because she was drunk. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

After that me and Maria peel the paper off, turn our cigarettes into regular bubble gum. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

She drink her coffee, puff on her cigarette. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he was telling me that I would recognize what had happened to him, and when I thought about lighting Vivian’s cigarettes, I knew that I did. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile he managed to light a cigarette; the shaking had begun to depart. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

A laughing teenage boy in a soiled tank top handed Otto a cigarette and, when he didn’t take it, pressed a beer into his hands. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

This was a botched robbery in which the perpetrators actually took very little money and a few cartons of cigarettes. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

He asked the milkman if he had a light for his cigarette, and then told him the crew had consisted of six men. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He held up the candy cigarette and made a show of dropping it back in his pocket. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Blue smoke curled from a cigarette poised in glittering fingertips. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know you would if you could. I’m just dying for a cigarette. It’s been like four days.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I dropped my cigarette too—seemed the right thing to do. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, she cradled the cigarettes in her hands as if they were money. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I have exchanged my chewing tobacco with Katczinsky for his cigarettes, which means I have forty altogether. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, far back from the path, we found an unused tree where—out of the range of lamplight—the only evidence of other couples was the protesting female laughter and the glow of lit cigarettes. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“That is for snacks. And this is the place where I buy my newspapers and cigarettes.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

He picked his cigarette out of the ashtray—that is, selected it from an accumulation of smoked and half-smoked cigarettes. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Just some faceless guy, a row of cigarettes, a gun, a bang, a searing pain, a wall of blackness. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Hal rolled the bills like a cigarette and put them in his vest pocket. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He will walk up and blow cigarette smoke in the Negro’s face, hoping the Negro will strike out at him. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just why do you think,” he asked knowingly, “that you have such a strong aversion to accepting a cigarette from me?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Bunny was already there and was smoking a cigarette. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Well, Mr. Pignati,” he started, taking a big puff on his cigarette, “Lorraine and I have something on our consciences that you ought to know about.” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Besides the cigarette missing from my hand, I’m jittery from the faces around me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

To my surprise, she plucked the cigarette from between his fingers and put it out in the ashtray. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The gray of the roof, the gray of cigarette ashes, matches the pavement of the sidewalk and the street. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Katie,” Bud called, “go get me a pack of cigarettes from the silver box on the coffee table in the den.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father rolled a Bull Durham cigarette and smoked. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

From his breast pajama pocket he two-fingered out a cigarette that looked as though it had been slept on. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“Would you roll me one of your Bolshevik cigarettes?” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

A cigarette case was the only thing in my pocket. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Could I, after going without pork and smoking no cigarettes for a while, claim some physical trouble that could bring about my release? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She handed over the cigarettes and took the money. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

But the soldiers wait, standing around the chief’s house, slowly smoking their cigarettes as if they have all the time in the world. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he lit his cigarette, and sat quite still again. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Finally, Dad held down my fists with his free hand, the other holding both his cigarette and the steering wheel, and said, “That’s enough, Mountain Goat.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

One smokes, the orange embers of his cigarette wafting to the dusty ground. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Alaska finished her cigarette and flicked it into the river. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I guess we scared him enough,” Claudio said uneasily, snapping his cigarette butt downhill. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the dense fog, the nervous red glow of a guard’s cigarette as he sits dreaming, cursing the cold but probably rejoicing in the rain—most likely he’d be the son of farmers. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I poured most of the can’s contents onto a leaf of cigarette paper, rolled it into a crooked joint, and promptly smoked it down to the roach. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He heard Max stand up, strike a match and light a cigarette. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The recruit turned to me, lighting the stub of a cigarette. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

But he only lit another cigarette and wouldn’t say anything else, no matter how I grilled him. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He sings this cheerfully, but I think it’s a sad song, because although I’ve seen the pictures of the airplanes on the cigarette cards I don’t know how they fly. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Kim notices a stray pack of cigarettes on the coffee table and lights one. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But the thing I noticed most was the cigarette holder she had in her hand. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The defense wants you to go into the jury room thinking that this case is about the character of Mr. Zinzi, who testified that he heard a story about someone who stole cigarettes. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl finished her lunch quickly and made off, while Winston stayed to smoke a cigarette. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

She lit a cigarette from his and they chinked glasses. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Shadow was about to take one, automatically—he did not smoke, but a cigarette makes good barter material—when he realized that he was no longer inside. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

She lit another cigarette and leaned against the kitchen table and considered him. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

He stubbed the cigarette out on the nightstand and went back into the kitchen with his whiskey. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

At first I wondered if she lay around in a lacy negligee all day, smoking cigarettes and waiting for gentlemen callers. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

After that Joe stood on the ditch bank smoking a cigarette. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He kneaded me on the chest with the hand holding the cigarette. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

One day I was in the hallway smoking a cigarette just before the siesta when a dark little boy appeared in front of me and stood there silently. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sat at the table as he ate, drinking more wine and asking how his day was, but eventually she went to the deck to smoke a cigarette, leaving Eliot to wrap up the leftovers. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Huh,” he said when he saw the small cigarette case that they had insisted on purchasing despite Naomi’s protests. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Monaco took out a cigarette lighter and lit the roof. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wood smoke and oil fumes, bodies and cigarettes, bangers and beans, sweet and sour manure. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

His cigarette had gone out, and he laid it carefully on the edge of the table. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Hell!” the operator's cigarette moved on his lips. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Henry put the mushroom back in his pocket and lit a cigarette. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Even as he took off his hat and rolled a cigarette, he had the cagey demeanor of a domesticated dog gone feral. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I took a cigarette from the box he offered me. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Potential boyfriends could not smoke Merit cigarettes, own or wear a pair of cowboy boots, or eat anything labeled either lite or heart smart. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

They laced their coffee and Milkman looked around for his cigarettes. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The striped curtain beyond the ticket booth hangs open, and through the haze, Marco can see a figure standing in the shadows, illuminated by the sharp spark of light from a cigarette lighter. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

In my experience, it was hard to write without your preferred tools, but impossible to write without a cigarette. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

With the cigarette still in his left hand, he motioned for us to follow him. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The soldiers stand behind the new group of prisoners, casually smoking a cigarette with one hand, while the other holds onto a big hammer with clumps of hair sticking to its head. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sitting with Humble outside the smoking lounge for the 10 P.M. cigarette break, thinking about where I was at the last 10 P.M.: just getting into Mom’s bed. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The killing here is the key to what these proceedings are about, not the stolen cigarettes, and you understand that. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put his cigarette in his mouth and put his boots on. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Henry sighed, and reached into his breast pocket for a cigarette. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Bernabe dropped his cigarette in the dirt and ground it out. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fish through my desk for a cigarette, stick it in my mouth, and remember as I’m reaching for my fighter that Theodore Finch, ’80s kid, doesn’t smoke. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She flicked the ashes of her cigarette into my pencil holder. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

He howled the words at the top of his lungs, exhaling each lyric with a puff of cigarette smoke. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The Colonel let go of my sweater, and I reached down and picked up the cigarettes. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Marcial straightened up and dropped his cigarette, and, looking straight ahead, their heads back, their free arms swinging, the three matadors walked out. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

She tasted like mint and cigarettes and it was, well, Ari, it was nice. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The smell would stick to your hair and clothes, like cigarette smoke, as it wafted into our classrooms' open windows on warm days back when our school didn't hive air-conditioning. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She expertly rolled a cigarette and lit it. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The rebel with the semiautomatic machine gun, who had been standing against a tree smoking a cigarette, furiously walked toward the old man and pointed his gun between the old man’s legs. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

We know that the cigarettes were stolen from the drugstore. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

Truckers stopped for diesel and Cokes, and businesspeople stopped for cigarettes. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She picked up a package of cigarettes and three kitchen matches, stuffed the matches behind the cellophane wrapper, and walked quietly into the hall. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The day before our departure she pointed at a cigarette wallah and earnestly asked, “Should we get a pack or two?” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was set on my feet behind the counter, and turned to see Gus—big, potbellied Gus, the cigarette still clamped between his lips. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“Give them to me,” she says, holding out her hand for his pack of cigarettes. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I had never smoked a cigarette, but when in Rome . Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

As he drives, Sam flicks a menthol cigarette onto his lips, then lights it. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The workmen from the main train climb down from the sleeper cars, light cigarettes, and trek across the lot toward the cookhouse. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He was slouched against the edge of the building, holding a lighted cigarette. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He leaned over to rest his cigarette in the ashtray. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Tsukiko nods thoughtfully, pulling a silver cigarette holder and matching lighter from the pocket of her coat. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Mikey flicks his cigarette to the ground and sucks on his teeth. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Bloom lit a cigarette and smoked slowly as they listened to the chickens ruffling their feathers, clucking sporadically. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shadow bought the coffees and took them over to Czernobog, who was sitting with the old black man, and was smoking a cigarette surreptitiously, as if he were scared of being caught. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Cigarette packages that lacked a New York State revenue stamp—cigarettes purchased out of state, for example, or on Indian reservations—were not allowed to be distributed to inmates, and were apparently thrown away. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s standing near his locker, hiding a pack of cigarettes in between a folder covered in black Sharpie drawings and an English textbook. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Styx teased the candy cigarette between his lips. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I traded my girl, my own daughter, for this red tablecloth and for a hen and for a handful of cigarettes. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

I could see Angie in one of those big circular mirrors Kip’s had in the far back corners, and she was still stacking and sorting cigarettes, not paying any attention to us at all. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Aw, the devil,” the woman sighs and takes advantage of the pause to light a cigarette. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

My dad threw his cigarette into the snow and strode over, yanking open the driver’s-side door. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The new ration did not start till tomorrow and he had only four cigarettes left. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I half smiled and followed his lead, throwing in a cigarette of my own. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

He’s in his shirt sleeves, he’s holding a cigarette. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Father replied, “They have tobacco in Canada. And why do you want to buy cigarettes? We don’t smoke.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He stared at the sack of Bull Durham in her lap and watched the way she rolled the cigarette without spilling any tobacco. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Sit down and rest, Doctor. But if I tell you to, stand up immediately,” he said softly, handing him a lighted cigarette. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He transferred the cigarette to his left hand and offered the right one to me. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

A man with garters on his arms played a piano, and a woman with gloves that came up past her elbows kept hurrying over to light Dad’s cigarettes. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Hmm. Pudge, you need a cigarette. Let’s go for a walk.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I stood up, lifted the toilet seat, and flushed my unfinished cigarette. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Tio brought the cigarette back up to his lips, this time leaving it dangling from the corner of his mouth. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

He’s smoking a cigarette even though I know he isn’t yet eighteen, and he wears a collared shirt like he’s just come back from church. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

They were smoking cigarettes at one of the tables, but they quickly got up and disappeared into the kitchen, so then we had the place to ourselves. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

God bless you, Mrs. McGrath, and I know it’s asking a lot but could you possibly lend me a couple of cigarettes? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I wished I had a cigarette to give him after that. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She paused, expecting him to smile, but he went on smoking his cigarette, and I noticed, faint as gossamer, the line between his brows. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

There were raisins and a buckeye and a string of beads—one cigarette with matches. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

At the end of the day he lights a cigarette, unlaces his dusty brogans. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

But it dawned on me to wonder, How in the world would he get American cigarettes in a country where you can’t even buy toilet paper? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I don’t understand how you can go so long without a cigarette,” she responds in a tone of reproach. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

O’Brien was strolling up and down, one hand in the pocket of his black overalls, the other holding his cigarette. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He takes out a pouch of tobacco and begins to roll a cigarette as he continues. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He smiled and took a long drag on his cigarette. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, I held one close enough to the head of the match to get it to take, and Vivian leaned forward with the cigarette between her lips. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Biff sat on the bed and they smoked a cigarette together. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

There was an ash-tray full of the stubs of their cigarettes. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She gestures for Marco to step out into the rain, taking a drag from her cigarette as he obediently walks through the open curtain, trying to make sense of her last statement. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Well?” said Maxim, lighting his first cigarette, “something had better be done about it. Frank? Go through and ask the exchange for Mayfair 0488.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry about your wife,” he said sadly, and then looked back at Vera, who had lit up a cigarette and was nervously smoking it. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

He unlaces it, pulls it open, while puffing on a clove cigarette. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I drummed my fingers on the counter, impatient for a cigarette, wondering if anyone had ever told him something could be done about those pimples on his neck. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took a long drag on her cigarette. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Captain Stewart gave him a cigarette and he lit up. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Bonsoir,” Tsukiko says cheerfully as he approaches, tucking her lighter back in her pocket as she balances her cigarette in its long silver holder. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He would sweep into a room, working a cigarette in his fingers, and people would trail him like pilot fish. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just because I don’t shoot my mouth off about it” Keeping her balance, she took a cigarette and matches out of the side pocket of her jeans. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

In site No. 50, a rockshelter near the village of Coxcatlan, the team found maize cobs the size of a cigarette butt. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Daddy smoked a pipe, but he wasn’t a cigarette man and Mother didn’t smoke anything at all, even though most of her friends did. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Inside, the air is cool but it smells of stale beer and cigarettes. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He loosened his collar and lit another cigarette. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He offered a lopsided smile, then struck up a candy cigarette for the walk back to the moped. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I dreamed my father and my brother and I were all having a cigarette. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

He flicked his cigarette butt into the creek, stood up, and left. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Lillian was sitting on the steps, smoking a cigarette and looking out at a barge coming through the opened bridge. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s not talk about it,” she said, almost listlessly, squashing her cigarette stub in the ashtray. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Powell groped in his shirt pocket for a loose cigarette. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

With his hands deep in his pockets, another cigarette slanting across his chin, he brooded and watched the men at work across the street. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

My cellmate was among at least a hundred nutmeg men who, for money or cigarettes, bought from kitchen-worker inmates penny matchboxes full of stolen nutmeg. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tobacco was acceptable in the form of a cigarette, but should any of us experiment with plug or snuff, we would automatically be disinherited. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

"Like this? Aren't we going to let any one smoke a cigarette first?" The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

And, looking down, she could see the cigarette of the man on watch. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

As far as he could tell, his was the only cigarette holder in the whole Mediterranean theater of operations, and the thought was both flattering and disquieting. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He popped a fresh cigarette into his mouth. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Along with the cigarettes, those same companies had their names on the ballpark billboards too. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Glass took a deep drag on her cigarette, watching him, then crossed her legs and asked, demanded, “Is that what Franny’s supposed to be doing? I mean is that what she’s doing and all?” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Then it was pop bottle tops, then cigarette cards, then sightings of license plates from different provinces and states. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

His dad was staring at the parking lot, the thin blue smoke from his cigarette surrounding his head like a halo when he said, “All right. Let’s hit it.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Two suitcases propped open on the bar were full of cigarettes—but there was nothing to drink. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She stops winding, leaving me with my hands still garlanded with animal hair, and takes the cigarette end from her mouth to butt it out. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Always after those searches, the family would miss silverware, cigarettes, small change, cuff links, and earrings left lying about. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

We stood on the side of Highway 40 in a patch of shade provided by a faded billboard for Lucky Strike cigarettes. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her cigarette was angled peculiarly between her fingers; it burned dangerously close to one of her knuckle grooves. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The thing about Bob is that when you first meet him, he’s really interesting because he knows about cigarette rules and pennies and Mary Tyler Moore. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

There were thin red scars across her stomach, along the side of her neck, and beneath her chin, each about the length of a cigarette. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

They sat in silence on the hay bales smoking the first cigarette of the day. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

For two hours, I smoke cigarettes and read Life magazine. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Vega had told me that when his mother was a little girl in Santiago, her dad had accidentally set their house on fire with a lit cigarette. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I left the cigarettes on the counter, since I hadn’t paid for them. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Morris reached into his jacket pocket and took out his pack of cigarettes. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shackleton shared his last two cigarettes with Wild as they discussed backup plans. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Dr. Finch held his cigarette with his thumb and two fingers. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

From the sidewalk, Blue Spot looks like a posting board for cigarette and alcohol ads. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

He had been standing with the unlighted cigarette in his mouth when the white man stepped up and held for him a lighted match. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She shook out a cigarette, lighted it and studied. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She put her hand in her coat pocket and pulled out her cigarettes. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

After offering one to him, she reaches for the book of matches that lies in an ashtray on the bar and lights a cigarette for herself. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ghosh extended his arm out the window, flicking the glowing tip of his cigarette into the night. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She held me longer than I expected, wrapped me in the scratchy softness of her black lace dress, the warmth of her powdered skin, the sting of her bittersweet breath, pungent of beer and cigarettes. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Mom? I can’t—it’s just—Mom? Mom really had—” I wanted to ask my dad for a cigarette. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Inside smelled like cigarette smoke and stale potato chips. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She and Dad sit by the fire when we have one and smoke their cigarettes and when they talk their teeth clack. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I lit a cigarette and spit into the creek. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Only Maniac and the man from the funeral home and the six pallbearers and two men off to the side, smoking cigarettes and leaning on a little hole-digging tractor that made Maniac think of something. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nora takes a cigarette from a pocket in her apron, breaks it, and offers half to Mam. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Charles smoked a cigarette and drank his soda through a red-and-white-striped straw. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I’ll never smoke cigarettes or eat pork or birds with webbed feet,” she murmured as she swabbed out the guinea-pig cages. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fie lit a cigarette and tucked it between the remaining two fin­gers of his left hand, the one resting on the steering wheel. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He’ll probably light up a cigarette as soon as I go. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Nicholson got his cigarette lit, with some difficulty, for there was a light breeze blowing from the north. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“What’d you do that for? You know we don’t have no cigarettes.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tossed away his cigarette and rolled up his window. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ulbrickson scoffed, said he was perfectly calm, and inserted the wrong end of a cigarette into his mouth. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The old man held the cigarette in the corner of his mouth. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Now the other thing about this cover is that Judy’s got her elbows up on the bar and there’s a cigarette burning in her hand. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take out my cigarettes, break each one in half and give them to the Russians. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was smoking a cigarette, taking long, angry drags. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Surveying this harvest of shirts and cigarette lighters, expensive machinery and cheap cufflinks, Perry felt elatedly tall— now Mexico, a new chance, a “really living” life. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat on the edge of the pallet and lit a cigarette. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

All you need to give them is a cigarette. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nicholson took a cigarette out of his pack, and lit it. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Not content to show up under the canopy wearing her charity clothes, one particular bride-to-be had her fiancé barter cigarettes with a soldier for his old parachute, which had the perfect drape for a gown. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Sitting on Tom's lap Mrs. Wilson called up several people on the telephone; then there were no cigarettes and I went out to buy some at the drug store on the corner. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

In wintertime it would be quite dark when he climbed from his bed made out of the cigarette box, and he sometimes shivered with cold as he stood in his nightgown doing his exercises. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun told him that he didn’t think any store would be open and selling cigarettes this day. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He whistled a tune absently, the cigarette twisting in his fingers. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He tipped his head politely to one side, letting the last of the cigarette drop from his fingertips. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Colonel stuffed a towel under the door, lit a cigarette, and said, “Fair enough, kids. We’ll work on a need-to-know basis.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I leaned toward him and gently put the cigarette to his lips, allowing him to inhale. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Mounds of paper were scattered around, ashtrays and wastebaskets were filled to overflowing, and, where visible, the flat olive carpeting was freckled with cigarette burns. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tariq crushed his cigarette with the heel of his good foot. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I offered the caretaker a cigarette and we smoked. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

The boys’ mouths taste of cigarettes and salt, their skin smells like Old Spice after-shave. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He received a game of Monopoly, a razor and a cigarette lighter. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The old warder agreed, and the following evening presented Mac with a newly bought pack of cigarettes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Macon hated tobacco; Milkman tried to put a cigarette in his mouth every fifteen minutes. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I read the papers with the coffee and then smoked a cigarette. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

And someone has to watch Mr. Nunzi’s cigarette to make sure he doesn’t accidentally set our apartment on fire. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

“And that, my young friends, is the story of our country, one invader after another,” the driver said, flicking cigarette ash out the window. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was ahead, ajar, and cigarette smoke billowed out like fog in Jack the Ripper's London. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

A hot yellow flame jumped into life, and I watched her suck it up into the cigarette. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The stale bar air followed him out the door—smelling like old cigarette smoke and spilled beer. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She shrugged her delicate shoulders, and allowed a thin smile to cross her little face as she tamped out a cigarette with long fingers. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

I heard the nervous sound of someone mashing out a cigarette in a glass ash tray. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Milton looks up to see Morrison in his living room, lighting a cigarette. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He smelled of grease and dirt, liquor and cigarettes. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

However, she puffed nervously on her cigarette and, rather bravely, picked up the phone. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

I know this because he winks at me, and it takes him all of thirty seconds to gather up his cigarettes and lighter from the bar and slip his coat on. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m not doing this for a piece of bread or a couple of bent cigarettes.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He walked over to his crumpled shorts lying on the floor and pulled out a pack of cigarettes. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

He ground out his cigarette on the foot of the stone angel. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

He glanced abruptly to his right, where a cigarette, lighted some time earlier in the evening, was balanced on an ashtray. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

He only lights his cigarette and, two seconds later, a bullet rips through the front of his skull and he crumples in a heap. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

"She said not to look at her when she comes in. She just arose from the sack. Have a cigarette. Are you smoking now?" The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

He lighted a cigarette and let it dangle from his lips. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he's got the urge to kiss her even though her eyes are red and her hair's a mess and she smells like vodka and cigarettes and weed. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“They put out so many cigarettes on his back.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The younger of the two guards lit him a cigarette. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He collects cigarette cards with pictures of airplanes on them, and knows the names of all the planes. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was sprinkling water on them from an empty pop bottle and smoking a cigarette. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doors slid open when we reached them, and my dad stubbed out his cigarette in a standing ashtray before we walked inside. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

His clothes smell like cigarettes and alcohol, and he has no way of remembering whether or not he was drunk or high. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Her long red hair was tied back, the better to do what she was doing, which was to light her cigarette. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Her right hand, the one that turned the tissue-thin pages of the Old Testament, or held an Old Gold cigarette to her lips, was straight and steady. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the balcony next door, Al Ulbrickson, the Deadpan Kid, stood motionless, expressionless, a cigarette in his mouth. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

When Barnie Buchanan saw Grandma bearing down on him, he tossed away his cigarette. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Except for Kuba, we sat on the ground and talked and laughed and smoked our cigarettes. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Dad sits at the other end of the bench, smoking his cigarette, drinking his tea. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Nicholson took out his cigarettes again, but without taking his eyes off Teddy. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

She brings him the cigarette and tells Mam the guards in the barracks have taken up a collection to pay our train fares to Limerick. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She takes a long drag on the cigarette. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He sat in his room smoking cigarettes all day. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Then he throws the burning cigarette into a dry patch of grass before he gets up and stumbles away, not even turning around or saying good-bye. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Dr. Finch got up from the sofa and extinguished his cigarette in an ashtray on the table beside her. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

King stares straight at Daddy and takes out his cigarette lighter. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I was smoking a cigarette, and when I stood up to say good-by to them, by mistake I blew some smoke in their face. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

They were hidden under an empty pack of cigarettes, a long string of squares that looked more like candy than he thought they should. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Nothing,” I said, “except that the witness is right. It’s true, I did offer him a cigarette.” The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

I could smell the cigarettes and chocolate on his breath. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, she took a long drag off her cigarette and squinted at the smoke curling off it. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Lana looked over at Jones, who was sweeping out the booths in a cloud of cigarette smoke and dust, and said, “Put the record on.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he shoved his hands in his pockets, the cigarette dangling from his mouth, and stood there, slightly stoop-shouldered and distracted-looking. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He laid his cigarette back in the ashtray. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He even let me smoke a cigarette in his office, but he urged me to quit smoking because of the health risks. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The boy opened his jacket and took out a silver cigarette case from an inside pocket. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

A young blond guard lit a cigarette, turned his back, and looked off toward the truck. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He had, unceremoniously, one Christmas when he found her under the house with stolen cigarettes. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He offered the agent a cigarette, but Kyril Montana only smoked the filtered kind, and so lit up one of his own. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Actually, I think they sold that one,” said Francis, sitting in a leather armchair and lighting a cigarette. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The noise woke up the bald guy, who got out of the car and stretched his arms and lit up a cigarette. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The Colonel and I walked into the woods down by the lake that afternoon and smoked a cigarette in the precise spot where the Eagle had caught us so many months before. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The red ember of his cigarette glowed in the darkness. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I felt the cigarettes crush between my fingers. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Some are smoking, the burning tips of cigarettes bright in the black. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

He took a lighted cigarette from the girl. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Standing over the tables and smoking a cigarette, she watched her customers eat. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

FOR WEEKS, the Colonel and I had relied on charity to support our cigarette habit—we’d gotten free or cheap packs from everyone from Molly Tan to the once-crew-cutted Longwell Chase. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

In the hall there was the smell of cigarettes and Sunday dinner. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Thanks,” he said, and ran ahead, the scent of cigarette smoke lingering in the air. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Something about how three cigarettes was enough time for the enemy to know where you are. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Even though I tried to clean up a little, the center console is stuffed with pencil stubs and pieces of paper, cigarette butts, a lighter, guitar picks. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The guard stood still to light a cigarette. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

"What about all this?" she then said, holding up an ashtray full of cigarette butts, red lipstick smudged on the tips. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

The smoke from their cigarettes they inhaled deeply, forcing it to fill their lungs, their hearts, their thighs, and keep at bay the shiveriness, the energy of their youth. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dead, his chest leans against the side of the trench, his face is lemon-yellow, in his beard still burns a cigarette. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as the door is shut, the rabid funk of cigarette smoke assaults Scoob’s nose. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

She was smoking a cigarette in a long holder. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hang outside the lounge during cigarette break—I basically just follow the group; wherever they go, I go—and talk with Bobby about my day. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“When one cigarette burned down to a fragment he no longer could hold, he lit another.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother had given Ulyushka a whole package of cigarettes for Christmas. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I stubbed the cigarette out against my shoe and returned it to his pocket. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Others gathered the remains into shrines for secretive, candlelit prayers to the dead, whose powers are recognized by alcohol and cigarettes. salt marsh at the mouth of the Supe. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Dewey lights two cigarettes, one for himself, one for the prisoner. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, thanks . . .” Outside, Snuffy seated himself on the porch, smoking a cigarette and tugging luxuriously on his beer while O. J. Martinez counted and recounted his newspapers. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandpa gave Adele a don’t-you-start-with-me look, marched into the kitchen, grabbed a can of beer from the refrigerator, planted himself in his favorite chair in front of the television, and lit a cigarette. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

And now here Bailey stands, trying to accomplish the same feat with only a book and some yarn and a borrowed cigarette lighter. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“They’ve gone back to the train to wait for the doctor,” she says, taking a drag from her cigarette. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Anna hit the back of her hand lightly against the railing for emphasis and demonstrated with her cigarette, holding it as though it were a pen. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Those guys who tried to get my jacket and my nonexistent money and cigarettes are there, all eating sausage sandwiches with lots of sauce and onions. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Three—an explosion of softness on my lips, the taste of apples and a recent cigarette. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She withdrew her hand almost immediately and used it to pick her cigarette out of the ashtray. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Zooey reached for his cigarette again, dragged on it, and then said, “There’s another, similar line in Timothy—‘I will therefore that men pray everywhere.’ Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Mr. Bolden testified that he received stolen cigarettes from Mr. Evans. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has a cigarette stuck in the corner of his mouth, which shows that he too has something he can trade on the black market. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took out a cigarette and the three of us waited outside the car for the smell to clear. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I liked to imagine him reading the letters in there by himself, in his recliner with his cigarettes and crystal ashtray. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He pulled a pouch from his pocket and began to roll a cigarette. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

She stopped, self-consciously, and put out her cigarette. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

She hears Madame Manec stand and collect the bowls and her father exhale cigarette smoke as though it is very heavy in his lungs and he is glad to be rid of it. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Morales slept almost the entire shift, rising near the end only to ask for a cigarette. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cigarette appeared to have been hand-rolled, and when the boy lit it, with a matte black Zippo lighter, the odor that filled the limo was not tobacco. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Lice Peeking flicked his cigarette butt under the trailer and pulled himself upright. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

And finally, appallingly, at the end of lunch Barack lit a cigarette, which would have been enough to snuff any interest, if I’d had any to begin with. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Jordan took out a cigarette, put his feet up on the coffee table, and smiled, looking forward to another day with his little Angel. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

His voice is good but raw, like he’s smoked too many cigarettes. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

When his cigarette is gone, he eases Marie-Laure’s feet to the ground and covers her with her coat and opens the rucksack. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Of course, I had to change my brand of cigarettes after that.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you want to cut?” he said, and lit a cigarette. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

There is silence, except for an exhale of cigarette smoke. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She peeled down her cigarette Army style, and then started toward the pier. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

At last he stopped to roll a cigarette, and then the mute nodded his head in the direction of the clock, smiled in that hidden way of his, and got up from the table. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I sat down next to her and lit up another cigarette. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

She was digging through her purse for the cigarettes she could not smoke in front of Mama. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He doesn’t want to go!” she yelled, and then lit another cigarette. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Bud dropped an unopened pack of filter-tip cigarettes on the table. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The curls of smoke from her cigarette slide between the raindrops as they wind around her head and up into the damp air. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She pauses to take a final drag off her cigarette. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The guard began humming again, the cigarette between his lips. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He sat at the kitchen table and lit a cigarette. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I wished I had a cigarette to give him after that. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Maxim threw his cigarette away, a quarter smoked, into the empty grate. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re a very lucky man, you know, wonderful family, beautiful children, such an attractive wife ...” He lit a cigarette and allowed the match to burn until he couldn’t hold it anymore. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He popped the battery back into the phone, flicked his cigarette to one side, and stood up. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Breathing hard, he made his way across the room and fell heavily into an armchair, where he rummaged in his pocket for a cigarette. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

My heart skips a beat when I see the glow of a cigarette tip burning in the dark. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

You see someone in school every day, or at work, in the canteen, and you share a cigarette or a coffee with them, and you talk about the weather or last night’s air raid. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

My parents don’t smoke cigarettes, so I have to collect this paper where I can find it, on the edges of gas stations, in the weedy grass near motels. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Three aspirin, cold root beer, and a chain of Pall Mall cigarettes—that was his notion of a proper “chow- down.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had stood behind her father as he’d drawn it, watching as he crouched over his easel, a cigarette dangling from his lips, his shoulders wrapped in a black Kashmiri shawl. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Janza flipped his cigarette against a tree and watched the butt ricochet into the gutter. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lit a fresh king-size cigarette abruptly, dragged on it, then stood up, exhaling smoke. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

I could still see her smiling at me with half of Mona Lisa’s smirk, but I couldn’t picture her hands well enough to see her holding a cigarette. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I guess not,” he said, lighting a cigarette with shaky hands. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He got all undressed, down to his shorts, and I lay on my bed and lit a cigarette. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

He takes a final puff of the cigarette, lets it drop to the driveway, and steps on it. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulls his hand back and transfers the lit cigarette to it. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Books, empty wine bottles, dirty underwear and cigarette butts littered the floor. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it was because of this cigarette that I got so secretive about the tape, right from the moment I found it at the Sale. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lane took time to light a cigarette for himself before he said anything. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

"I know, Ali," he said, taking one more puff on his cigarette, then mashing it out. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Eleanor heard Arthur take up a book, and put it down, and light a cigarette, and sigh, and stir, and finally say, “Listen, isn’t there anything to do around here? Where is everybody?” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

So when they started working again, Sammy land I kept busy bringing them coffee, scratching their backs, lighting their cigarettes in the break room, and so on. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She blew out some smoke and gave me a smile and put the cigarette back in her mouth. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

He nodded, chewing on the end of the cigarette. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Then I lit another cigarette--it was my last one. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

That he didn’t apologize for the cigarette burns in the new sofa. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t think he smoked, but cigarettes were like money. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Putting two cigarettes in his mouth, he lights one, the other, then sucks on them both. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

And then she lit a cigarette and sucked on it so hard for so long that I thought the entire thing might burn off in one drag. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

There was a still life on Billy’s bedside table— two pills, an ashtray with three lipstick-stained cigarettes in it, one cigarette still burning, and a glass of water. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want some silver paper out of cigarette packages. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It turns out he’s already outside in the parking lot, standing by the trunk of our car, one foot on the fender, smoking a cigarette and talking to Wimpy in a low, serious voice. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

I am sure that she tasted like stale booze, but I did not notice, and I’m sure I tasted like stale booze and cigarettes, but she didn’t notice. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Next thing I know, cigarette smoke is everywhere, and Raise is showing us how to do some new dance. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Boo Boo sighed, and came away from the window with a long ash on her cigarette. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

After five kids, her mother had breasts and hips like a woman in a cigarette ad. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

At this point, I purposefully put out my cigarette against my own palm. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Mr. and Mrs. Little named him Stuart, and Mr. Little made him a tiny bed out of four clothespins and a cigarette box. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

She had just brought her cigarette to her lips, but it had gone out. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

My friend had time to flick her cigarette into the toilet bowl and flush. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I sat crosslegged for a couple of hours and smoked cigarettes, squashing them out on the instep of my slipper and putting the stubs in the breast pocket of my pyjamas. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

I took another puff of the cigar, hoping it would calm me the way the cigarette at Meir’s had done. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Henry wiped his mouth with a napkin and reached in his pocket for a cigarette. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He flicked his cigarette out the open window. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“I’m surprised to see you here, Maleeka,” she says, flushing the cigarette down the toilet. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Camilla tried to light a cigarette, but one match and then another went out. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Angie with the big brown bangs and long nails was behind the counter, sorting packs of cigarettes. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

It’s like we’ll be having a cigarette outside with Sam and Patrick at the end of the day, and we’ll all be talking about something until it’s time to go home. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Still, when I came across a pair of workers sharing a cigarette between them, it took all my confidence to meet their eyes and nod. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s like the king of the cigarette butts!” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Chino calls to the man in khaki, who flicks his cigarette onto the lawn behind him, and approaches the car. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

So I just laid around in bed for a while and smoked another cigarette. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Papá sat at the kitchen table, lit a cigarette, and asked me to bring him a glass of water and two aspirins. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Across the street, some white chicks in bikinis lounged on a billboard for something—maybe a car dealership, or some kind of cigarette? Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I could see Dusty’s goon guy sitting on the hood of his station wagon, the tip of the cigarette glowing orange whenever he took a drag. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

It's the safest place to smoke a cigarette in the known universe. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Good night,” I called out to the cigarette tips glowing like fireflies in the dark. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twinkle lit a cigarette and began to smoke it with relish, waving it around Sanjeev’s head as if it were a conductor’s baton as Mahler’s Fifth Symphony roared from the stereo downstairs. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He lit another cigarette to curb his hunger and tried to reduce his task to the basics: you walked across the land until you came to the sea. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“They gave it to me instead of cigarettes today.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The laws of gravity were about to apply to a long ash that clung to the cigarette. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I gave them each a package of cigarettes, Macedonias, loosely packed cigarettes that spilled tobacco and needed to have the ends twisted before you smoked them. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Dussel stayed upstairs to smoke a cigarette, and we crawled back into bed. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“I did not mean to make you feel ashamed,” she said, dropping her cigarette into the half glass of lemonade in her hand. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

George put out his cigarette in the car ashtray. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

I lay in the bed, under a lamp, and read and smoked cigarettes. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The driver put the bills in his pocket and flicked his cigarette out the window. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

She thought about him sitting in the booth at the diner with Lee Ann Dickerson, holding a menu and smoking his cigarette. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

He pulled the pack out of his pocket and placed the cigarette back in it. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

My mother put out her cigarette with little, nervous jabs. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He stuck the cigarette in the corner of his mouth, lit it, coughed again. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Bigger bought two packages of cigarettes and shoved one of them to G.H., who looked at him in surprise. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’d sip vodka and bake cookies, pass out the cigarettes and dance if a boy asked me to. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He yanked the cigarette out of his mouth and clenched his teeth. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Nearly three hundred people squeeze into Santa Teresa del Mar’s only movie theater, sharing seats, cigarettes, and soft drinks. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took time to get his cigarette lighted. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

She had a great many boy friends, and she smoked cigarettes and drank. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Could you—do you think you could possibly get me—a cigarette?” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He puts the cigarette out and walks in with me. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

She was a single mother with six sons, and she planned to put all of them through college using money she made cutting hair and selling chips, candy, and cigarettes. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

In 1881, the innovative Buck added a new product to the Duke line: cigarettes, already popular in Europe, but still relatively untried in America. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The first time he tried to smoke it made him sick, but he persevered, and spun the packet out for a long time, smoking half a cigarette after each meal. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

When no one was looking, I stuffed about a dozen of the cigarette packs into my jacket. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could see into the kitchen, where their waiter was smoking a long, thin cigarette. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Ruby stubbed out her cigarette, saying “We will be like the Vietnamese.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found the humidor on an unfamiliar table with two stale dry cigarettes inside. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I transfer the match carefully to my zip- pered sleeve where the cigarette is, so it won’t get wet, and take an ice cube. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lifted the glass and drained the liquor and set it down and leaned forward and toyed with the cigarette in his fingers. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I light a cigarette and stub it out, thinking, Don’t start up again. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

A friend helps Lourdes get work cleaning oil refinery offices and houses by day and ringing up gasoline and cigarette sales at a gas station at night. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

When I was fourteen, I started smoking cigarettes. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Malloy took a pull on his cigarette and shook his head. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

A beat-up gull swooped in and pecked at a cigarette filter. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“With so many soldiers dying in France and all, the world’s not going to fall apart if you smoke a cigarette once in a while.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put out my cigarette, even though I wasn’t quite finished, because I felt spooked. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The air smells of Tootsie Pops and perfume and of the cigarette the usher is smoking in the lobby. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Maureen even stopped reading and slept all day, leaving the apartment only to buy cigarettes. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

At first he’d said he was snooping around the Mother Paula’s property in order to heist a load of Gladiator cigarettes. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smell of cigarettes and preservatives lingered in the air. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“No,” I said, watching John slip a lit cigarette into the hand of the dummy with the girdle and the brassiere. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Look,” he said, exhausted but struggling hard to keep his eyes open, alert, and to keep from slurring his words, “I’m all out of cigarettes.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lights a cigarette; he plucks key after key out of her pockets. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The sheriff lights his cigarette and looks out at the horizon. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

She sang this to me in her Jamaican way, then picked up her cigarette again. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I sit in the dankness and beer fug and cigarette smoke, getting a little dizzy, keeping my mouth shut, my eyes open. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Franny quickly tipped her cigarette ash, then brought the ashtray an inch closer to her side of the table. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

She hovered on the peripheries, speaking to no one, always smoking, raising the cigarette to her lips with a rapid, hungry movement, and pulling it away in agitated disgust. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Mom gave him one of his presents, a brass cigarette lighter from the nineteen twenties in the shape of a Scottish terrier. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her dad's arm was hanging over the door, holding a cigarette. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I'd probably go down to the can and sneak a cigarette and watch myself getting tough in the mirror. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

She took a cigarette out of the pack on the table. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

She did not seem to know what to make of the hug either, because she backed away from him quickly and lit the cigarette. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She lit a cigarette, while the two women spiritedly watched her. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Now, as Franny paused again, he sat back and lit a cigarette and watched her face. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

He goes on to say that it wasn’t a career in law enforcement that killed him but two packs of cigarettes a day. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I sucked in on the metal cigarette as if a doctor were telling me to. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

When it was entirely hopeless, Reshevsky removed his lighted cigarette from its holder, pursed his lips, and resigned. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I sat down in the big chair, next to her, and offered her a cigarette. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“What would you like?” he says, still with that lightness, as if it’s a money transaction merely, and a minor one at that: candy, cigarettes. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He reached into his cigarette pack for a smoke, but it was empty. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

She opened the glove compartment, found a package of cigarettes, took one out of the pack, and lighted it. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

When I sat down she stubbed out her cigarette and lit another two and gave me one. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I hurried along the tree line, cradling the cigarettes and the pen in my pocket. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Even though it’s dark, even though his face is in shadow, it seems that his eyes glow with red fire like the tip of his smoldering cigarette. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Spreading his jacket on the burnt grass, he sat down and lit a cigarette. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

To compensate for my youth on campus, I wear old gray sweatshirts and box in a local gym and walk around with an unlit cigarette in my mouth, even though I do not smoke. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are over by the defunct cigarette machine. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

There was perfume, and a white bearskin rug in the bedroom in front of the fireplace, and Mollie smoked a goldtipped cigarette— Violet Milo—with her coffee after dinner. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was smoking a cigarette of her own as she waited to be given further instruction. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“Papa?” said Mig, when her father was walking away from her with the hen in his arms, a cigarette in his mouth, and the red tablecloth draped across his shoulders like a cape. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

I roll out the cartons of cigarettes and get ready to collect. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I like grease food and fast food. And cigarettes.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He lit a cigarette and blew out an emphatic plume of smoke. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He had stopped a man wearing a beret and asked for a cigarette, but the man had threatened to have him arrested. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I always had several cartons of cigarettes in my cell; they were, in prison, nearly as valuable a medium of exchange as money. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“An idea, moron,” Lana answered, holding her cigarette before her lips and speaking through it as if it were a director’s megaphone. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knock softly, already dying for another cigarette to calm my nerves. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She had those two cigarette burns on her upper arm and a scar on one hand from a hot pan of cream-cheese brownies. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

His idea of fun was to shoot cigarettes out of his friends’ mouths. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stretched her neck again, felt the bruised arm cautiously, and raised the cigarette to her lips, more steadily this time. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I'd make her calm down, and then I'd go over to the other side of the living room and take out this cigarette case and light a cigarette, cool as all hell. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

He puts his cigarette out on the building, causing a shower of red sparks. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The cigarette butt still bobbed in the toilet bowl, but the tank was refilling, so he had to wait a moment before he could flush it again. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Every block has at least one combination deli/grocery store, windows almost entirely covered in beer and cigarette posters. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

When she finished, she dropped the cigarette to the ground and rubbed it out with her heel. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Walking slowly around the table, Junior lit himself a cigarette, inhaled deeply, blew smoke into Sammy’s face, then drove a fist into the boy’s solar plexus. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Colonel Cathcart took the cigarette holder out of his mouthy stood it on end inside the pocket of his shirt, and began gnawing on the fingernails of both hands grievously. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I watched as he lit a cigarette with trembling hands and took a pull off a flask. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Irritated, Bookman stubbed out his cigarette and continued to address Kyril Montana: “Two, maybe three things,” he said. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most important, in a day of improbable miracles, Ralph was able to connect the suctioning device to the ambulance’s cigarette lighter and make John comfortable. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The policemen told me we had to wait for the judges and one of them offered me a cigarette, which I turned down. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

When he was through, he lit a cigarette, stretched out upon the cot and closed his eyes. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Death row prisoner number five forty-one, you have a visitor. “Please make this a short visit, ma’am, the priest will be here any minute to give the prisoner his last meal and his last cigarette. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beside her, a cigarette burned down to ash in an aluminum pie plate. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The jig flipped a cigarette that would have set Miss Lee’s hair on fire if it hadn’t been aimed by a master marksman. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard she used to put on shows where she’d shoot dimes out of a guy’s fingers and cigarettes from his mouth, all the while riding a horse. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He took a long puff of the cigarette before slowly blowing out the smoke. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Lubek throws the stub of his cigarette over the bridge and holds out an arm, inviting me to go through the door first. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Papá relaxed his jaw and lit a cigarette. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The village hall smells of cigarettes, wax, dust, cauliflower, and paint. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Her mother had a cigarette in her mouth. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Such, I suspect, were the questions that swirled in Mother’s mind as she contemplated buying cigarettes. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

My father is passing out Pall Mall cigarettes, with one already dangling from his lips. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m certain he’s coming for the bag even before I smell the cigarette smoke and hear the footsteps. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Turning right, she could almost see Father smiling at his amazing daughter as he passed cigarettes to the men, who shouted and clapped. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

After long hours of code breaking, he went back to his room in a private French home, among streets so dark that he sometimes needed the light from his cigarette to find his way. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The place smelled like stale cigarettes and coffee and frying eggs. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

His left hand, motionless on the armrest, with a fresh, unlighted cigarette between the fingers, looked oddly white and inorganic in the brilliant sunlight. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The two men drank whiskey from bottles and filled the room with a stratified lake of cigarette smoke in the flame-white light of night. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

With cigarettes and all, the check came to about thirteen bucks. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Another time, we dipped the ends of their cigarettes in hot sauce and returned them to the pack. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Glass reached out and drew the metal wastebasket in close to her and used it as an ashtray for the lighted cigarette she had brought in with her. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

His Greek books were spread out on the desk; a cigarette burned in a full ashtray. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The middle one rummaged in her pouch for a long cigarette stub to smoke. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maxim lit a cigarette and his eyes met mine over the tea-pot. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

They were very good cigarettes, very thick and well-packed, with an unfamiliar silkiness in the paper. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He knew his father was involved with the cigarettes, and hell, everybody else in this room could be too. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

But the white man had lighted his cigarette and smiled and seemed to want to be with him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He patted his upper right arm, where the muscles were, with his left, scattering gray ash from the cigarette in his left hand. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

She took a hard drag from her cigarette, the cherry flaring, and lit the end of a new one off the old before stubbing it out. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Here, smoke this,” Shin said, handing the guard two packs of cigarettes. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Which 1 bought with your cigarette money. Apply it to wet hair, and it won’t wash out for months.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The truck was split open and cartons of cigarettes littered the wet road. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He might as well be lighting a cigarette or ordering a Scotch on the rocks, it made him seem so much older. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

She had brought two packs of cigarettes for him, and they were still in her bag. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Petty Officer Powell fell forward in his chair and carefully snubbed out his cigarette. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

At first all she found were an old clove cigarette and a pair of shorts she didn’t like. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Linda sat down at the kitchen table with a cup of coffee and lit a cigarette. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a bullet hole in the doorframe and broken glasses of Star beer, a popular brand in the country, and empty cigarette packets on the verandah floor. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Then one night he crushed his cigarette and instead of saying good night leaned against the doorway. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Afterwards I smoke a cigarette and Kat a cigar. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Glass immediately gave her hairnet an unnecessary adjustment, then took out her cigarettes and matches, but she merely kept them for a moment in her hand. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

On some of the tables glasses stood half-empty; in one ashtray a cigarette had burned down to the butt; a plate of risotto stood next to a basket of stale rolls as hard as cardboard. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

R.C. lit another cigarette, snapped the match at me, and took a long drag. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Milkman was relaxing a little and he hoped the cigarette would relax him more. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

A Dancing Trout pickup and a Forest Service truck were parked under the tank, cigarette smoke drifting out the driver’s window of the dude ranch vehicle. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a blister the size of a pencil eraser on it; someone must have burned him with a cigarette. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Which one of you is Minerva Mirabal?” he asked, watching us through his cigarette smoke. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s the smell of cigarettes and weed and close bodies. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I lit a cigarette and sat for a long time. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

That evening, when Mrs. Muokelu brought the antibiotic capsules wrapped in newspaper, Olanna asked her to come inside and showed her a photo of Kainene, sitting by the pool with a cigarette between her lips. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But, anyway, here she was, giving her mother a chance, which, as far as Flora could tell, meant watching Phyllis Buckman use the candle on the dining-room table to light cigarette after cigarette. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

She spoke first, asking if he had a cigarette paper. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t shake my hand, just lit a cigarette and reached for the conch shell he used as an ashtray. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

As she sized me up, her eyes narrowing, the cigarette hung aslant from her mouth. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I start walking off, ditching the cigarette first thing. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

"Let me ask a little something," one of the men said, spitting his spent cigarette butt into the surf. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The smoke rose in spirals from their cigarettes as they sat perfectly contained, waiting. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they passed the cigarette store, Father began to sing. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

A way that I could take revenge on the Nazi system—a missing girl, like a missing pack of cigarettes. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

But when the Colonel opened the door, I caught the edge of her scent: wet dirt and grass and cigarette smoke, and beneath that the vestiges of vanilla- scented skin lotion. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

He struck a match on a box, lit a cigarette for himself and held out the match for Dad. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I open the windows to let some air in because it’s too dead and stale, and then I close them again, afraid the scent of soap and cigarettes and Finch will escape. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He at once proffered me another box, handing me the cigarettes too, at the same time. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

His voice trailed off and he tapped the candy cigarette against his lips. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

She kept one eye on the young guy and the man in sunglasses, who had lit up a cigarette. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He searched the floor until he found a plastic bar straw, and then he played with piles of cigarette butts he had gathered. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He settled one of the broad cushions behind his head, and lit a cigarette. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Because you’re skinny. It’s called irony, Pudge. Heard of it? Now, let’s go get some cigarettes and start this year off right.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The room still smells like him—a mix of soap and cigarettes and the heady, woodsy quality that is distinctly Theodore Finch. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, some of them seemed to be on good terms with the guards, called them by nicknames, and tried to wheedle cigarettes through the spy-hole in the door. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

After a while the storekeeper came out to smoke a cigarette, and he joined Stuart on the front steps. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

I was aching with wanting the “no pork and cigarettes” riddle answered. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking up, I see, besides a toothbrush in the Object’s mouth, a cigarette. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He pulled open a desk drawer and lit a cigarette from a half-empty pack. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Lourdes thinks she detects the scent of her father’s cigar, but when she turns there’s only a businessman hailing a taxi, his hand waving a cigarette. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bald watchman tossed his cigarette, slid off the hood of the station wagon, and headed for the Coral Queen. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I finished my cigarette, stubbed it out in the silver guest ashtray. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“But I paid for her fair and square with a good laying hen and a handful of cigarettes and a blood-red tablecloth. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

She lit a cigarette and spent a moment identifying with the smoldering match. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She wouldn’t look him in the eye as she pulled another cigarette from the pack. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The cigarette gave her a drunk feeling so that her head seemed heavy and loose on her shoulders, but she had to finish it. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

When we got home, there was a smog in the living room caused by Aunt Gloria’s cigarettes. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air still smelled of wet cigarettes and ammonia. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Did he tell you the name of the person he got the cigarettes from? Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were cigarettes, matches, and dark chocolate wafers for the adults. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Favell leant forward to the table and helped himself to a cigarette. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at me with bravado, took a third drag, put out the cigarette. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Gus’s cigarette smoke curled in the air as he handed over a cheeseburger and fries. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Jaime did not smoke, but he savored that cigarette, inhaling as slowly as he could. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

For several minutes she had been holding her cigarette ashes in her cupped left hand. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

She took a long pull on her cigarette. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Old men, like scraggly human cigarettes with non-human cigarettes dangling from their mouths, all turned and looked. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

He was standing against one of the side walls of the school building smoking a cigarette. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Mr. Dalton pulled out a package of cigarettes. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then he lights a cigarette and goes to work on his miniatures at a workbench in the corner of the kitchen. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She put the cigarette in her mouth and reached out with both hands and yanked the paper from the typewriter. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

I run to the end of the bridge and cut onto the grass, down the embankment to the bottom, which is an old dried-up riverbed full of cigarette butts and beer bottles. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The owner of the show stood smoking a cigarette by himself. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Betting with chocolate and cigarettes was heavy until someone broke out some gold sovereigns, and then the wagering turned downright feverish. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

When my father goes for his long walk Bridey comes in and she and Mam sit by the fire drinking tea and smoking cigarettes. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Quitting cigarettes wasn’t going to be too difficult. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Howard tapped out a cigarette and tried to light it. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oliver heard a sliding door opening and their next-door neighbor click a lighter for a cigarette. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Joe fetched a cigarette from his shirt pocket, tossed one to Nancy, lit them both. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I got close to the funeral home, I noticed Robbie was sitting on the stoop, trying to light a cigarette. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Luna turns, stubbing out his cigarette in the ashtray, and Alex can see a muscle clenching in his jaw. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

There was a guard standing next to it, a cigarette slipping out of his hand, looking around to see what was happening—but looking the wrong way. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The jars were made just for these cigarettes. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What I’d like, kid, is for you to run over to Baker’s and buy me a pack of cigarettes.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

After I ate my Ho-Ho, I lit up a cigarette, and I was kind of hoping someone would ask me for one, but no one did. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

You could recognize a shabby leather jacket, a hairy neck, a black T-shirt or sweatshirt, and his fingers with a roll-up cigarette in them. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back and forth they walked across the basement floor in the glare of the furnace with their hats on and with cigars and cigarettes in their mouths. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She takes the still-glowing cigarette from its holder, balancing it gently between her graceful fingers. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Take your pillow with you if you want to. And get some cigarettes, too, while you’re downstairs picking up my underwear and pants, will you?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

They stood apart and he kept lighting cigarettes and discarding them before they were half smoked. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She angrily searched her dressing gown for cigarettes. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even if we were being shown a picture of a famous writer or world leader, and they happened to have a cigarette in their hand, then the whole lesson would grind to a halt. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She saw him go into the candy store and buy four Sweet Caporal cigarettes with the two cents after mass. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she lit a new cigarette off the butt of her previous one, she told me that the Colonel was smart but hadn’t done much living when he got to the Creek. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

By winter, the United States was at war and tobacco companies were supplying free cigarettes to soldiers, so the market was booming. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The stacks and stacks of cigarettes Jimmy had in the kitchen. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He lit a cigarette and took a long drag before saying, “What the hell happened to your face?” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Jimmy lit another cigarette and began wobbling down the stairs. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The prisoner accepts a cigarette from one of the Angels, puts it awkwardly to his lips with his bound hands. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt in his pocket for his cigarette case. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took Baby’s hand and led the way past the roadside hawkers who sat under umbrellas with batteries and padlocks and cigarettes carefully arranged on enamel trays. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Suddenly feeling the heat, she let the cigarette drop to the surface of the lake. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Dad was sitting at the drafting table, rolling a cigarette. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

So I don’t have to be running off for cigarettes or to the liquor store. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that point my lawyer asked the caretaker if it wasn’t true that he had smoked a cigarette with me. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Cecilia had taken the cigarette and he was lighting it for her. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The ash on his cigarette was about an inch long. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Aunt Saba let a cigarette burn down to a stump between her fingers and flicked it into the air when it stung her. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The pack of cigarettes, which my friend Judy Smith’s boyfriend bought for her at the Esso station outside of town, and which she passed along to me, doesn’t even register in my mind. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The Englishman sent over real coffee and sugar and marmalade and cigarettes and cigars, and the doors of the theater were left open, so the warmth could get in. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they were all finished and started going out the boxes again, you could tell they could hardly wait to get a cigarette or something. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

She crumpled her sandwich wrapper and lit a cigarette. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He got out of the car and closed the door, took one more pull from the cigarette, burning it down to the yellow part, then plucked it into the street. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She was standing by the window, smoking a cigarette, an odd, dumpy little figure I should not see again, her coat stretched tight over her large breasts, her ridiculous hat perched sideways on her head. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

My dad paced around the house with a drink permanently in his hand and a cigarette permanently in his mouth. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

She dropped the cigarette and took Louisiana from them and carried her through the automatic doors. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

He’s in his shirt sleeves, his shirt untucked, hanging loose; he’s holding a toothbrush, or a cigarette, or a glass with something in it. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked politely as a tall, burly man approached the counter and peered behind me at the wall of cigarettes. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Big Richard was riding shotgun, chomping on his cigarette, and staring out the window to keep from laughing. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I frowned because I’d seen Kat with a cigarette in her mouth with her school friends only the week before. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

He waved it around and talked and munched and let it dangle from his mouth like a cigarette. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He puffed on the cigarette until his cheeks, even his eyes, were bulging. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

He lit a cigarette, but the cloud of smoke made the magazine even more invisible. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

All but one of the pallbearers lit up cigarettes. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

From her bed, she could see his large-framed body, his long legs, the smoke swirling around his hook-nosed profile, the amber tip of his cigarette brightening and dimming. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Later, over cigarettes and coffee, Perry returned to the subject of thievery. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s nothing wrong with using lit for the past tense of light: Paul lit two cigarettes, then gave one to Bette. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was holding the unlit cigarette between his fingers, flicking at it as if to get rid of the ash. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

"No, no, she was cool about it," Cynthia reassured him, remembering the cigarette butt in her pocket. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

The driver parked the truck and lit another cigarette. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I watched as Vivian took a long drag on her cigarette, pursed her lips as if blowing kisses, and blew out the smoke. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In one shot, he’s wearing a hat and has a cigarette dangling from his mouth. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

As Jackson tried to protect his mother, he was shoved up against a cigarette machine and shot twice in the stomach by a trooper later identified as James Fowler. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt pretty hungry as soon as I had a cigarette. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

In the attempt to hurry them along, I chain-smoked for as long as my supply of cigarettes held out, and I read. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I handed them their drinks dully, saying little; I changed the records on the gramophone, I threw away the stubs of cigarettes. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean”—the medic lit a cigarette and glared at her—“some kids called up and said there’s a dead guy in the basement. But there ain’t. So nothing. Nada.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Within months of its introduction, on the strength of that catchy phrase, Winston tipped, racing past Parliament, Kent, and L&M into second place, behind Viceroy, in the American cigarette market. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Malloy took a long long long drag on the cigarette, turning half of it instantly to ash. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Mr. Evans: We took some cigarettes and left. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Tanaka smoked one or two cigarettes a week on the back patio, but she failed to consider that Kaori’s bedroom window was usually downwind, which meant the smoke blew right by the spirit chamber. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Inside it’s dark and smells like cigarettes and mints. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

All three men sprang to their feet to join in the struggle round the lifts, and the remaining tobacco fell out of Winston’s cigarette. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The guard sat under a tree and watched, smoking cigarettes. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The hibiscus blossoms rolled themselves like cigarettes when they went to sleep. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Which was how I knew she was crying because of Salim, not the cigarettes. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

He displayed the cigarette holder grandly on every occasion and had learned to manipulate it adroitly. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

After dinner as my parents gossiped over their expressos and cigarettes, my sisters and I shared a disappointed look. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He took the burning cigarette and pointed the glowing tip at my cheek. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

After he checked our teeth, I would hug his right side, because he kept cigarettes in his left breast pocket. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He chucked the last can into his ice chest, slammed the lid down, lit a cigarette, yanked his truck door shut, and drove off. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

He lit a cigarette and unlocked the garage; the door swung in and again he was surprised and pleased to see the lights spring on automatically. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He flicks his butt into the street and lights up another cigarette. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She squashes out her cigarette, which has been smoldering in the ashtray. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She backed up and re-seated herself, a lighted cigarette in her hand. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

In the far corner of the room, he saw stacks of cigarette boxes. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He’s having a cigarette right outside the door. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Three weeks after Dusty was let out of jail, they arrested him again for attempting to steal cigarettes from a food store. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Nettle took from his bag two cartons of cigarettes. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He also ran errands for the ward and in his spare time made me a cigarette lighter out of an empty Austrian rifle cartridge. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He takes the used-up cigarette from his lips and holds it between his thumb and finger. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“How the hell do you smoke a cigarette with half of it in your mouth?” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat back in a reclining desk chair with a lit cigarette between his fingers, scratching his face and coughing. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She slipped another cigarette from her pack, lit it with the car lighter, pulled a drag and let her smoke out slow. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Styx toyed with the cigarette between his fingers. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

No animals died to make this cigarette, but for once I don’t like the way it makes me feel, like Em being polluted, like I’m being poisoned. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He said, ‘Nope. I know it was real, because I was the one who lit the horse’s cigarette!” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Mother? Are you sitting down out there? I have a terrible feeling you’re sitting down out there with about five cigarettes going. Are you?” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

I was no longer young for my peer group, nor did I walk around in gray sweatshirts with unlit cigarettes in my mouth. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Absently and when a subject had so consumed and excited him, he would write with the cigarette and smoke the chalk. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eagerly they queried Mother, drinking tea and smoking cigarettes. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Joe would break the ice in all the puddles while his old man, smoking a cigarette, patiently waited. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cloke put out his cigarette and looked at Henry with new interest. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The discard box was large, and it was quickly filled with toiletries that contained alcohol; clothing colored blue, black, gray, or orange; packages of food that hadn’t been factory-sealed; and . . . cigarettes. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The truth is nothing more than a small green room with dirty windows and a lingering smell of cigarettes, even though it has been illegal to smoke on school property for years. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was a tall, thin, chocolate-skinned man with a mustache, who favored shades, short-sleeved shirts, shiny shoes, and sharkskin pants, and always held a lit cigarette between his teeth. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He bent his head to light a cigarette, and did not reply immediately. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He talked around the cigarette in his teeth. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He glared out from between Dana’s pudgy fingers, which reeked of cigarettes. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She set a cigarette between her lips and thumbed a wooden match to light it, blew out the match and put it back in her jacket pocket. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A tall, thin man smoking a cigarette approached us. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Jensine stubbed out a cigarette and laughed at my naïveté, which caused her a small coughing attack. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The Augustus Waters of the crooked smiles and unsmoked cigarettes was gone, replaced by this desperate humiliated creature sitting there beneath me. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I give in and light another cigarette even though last night the surgeon general came on the television set and shook his finger at everybody, trying to convince us that smoking will kill us. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Last to get here, first to leave,” says Ma, blowing out some cigarette smoke. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Halfway down the passageway, a stewardess was sitting on a chair outside a galley way, reading a magazine and smoking a cigarette. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Bernabe stubbed out his cigarette and sucked in a deep breath, which he expelled very slowly, never having felt quite this heady before. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I booked cigarette and money bets on fights and ball games. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was a new entry in his repertoire of poses: back to the wall, arms crossed, cigarette dangling from the corner of his mouth, his good leg casually bent. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Maleeka’s tripping on that slave stuff again,” Char says, taking out her cigarette lighter and setting one of my pages on fire. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

A figure in a long black overcoat was standing motionless across the room by the windows, hands clasped behind the back; near one of the hands I saw the tiny glow of a cigarette coal. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I thought she was looking for another cigarette. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Kofi took a drag from the cigarette they was passing around and tried to share it with Mohammed, who waved it away, pouting. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

In this swarm of cigarettes and dark sophistication they appeared here and there like figures from an allegory, or long-dead celebrants from some forgotten garden party. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He paces the patio, lighting cigarettes he forgets to finish, flicking the butts into the ginger bushes nearby. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

If Dana blabbed about the imaginary cigarette stash, he might try to blame Roy for the bungled theft. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has a cigarette in his mouth and a clipboard in his hand. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

With his cigarette hand, Selena’s brother tapped the left side of his chest. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Aaron gave her the metal cigarette—I said no this time; I’d had enough. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The Colonel sighed and pulled a pack of Pudge Fund cigarettes of his jeans pocket. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The wind strengthened and blew paper cups and empty cigarette packs in eddies around the parking lots. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s sitting in a chair in front of her vanity, dressed in a midnight blue negligee and smoking a cigarette. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t mean anything like that. I meant cigarettes ... or books ... or ... toys.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Malachy says, Why are you all black? and Uncle Pa Keating laughs and coughs so hard he has to ease himself with a cigarette. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Forms leaned together in the taxis as they waited, and voices sang, and there was laughter from unheard jokes, and lighted cigarettes outlined unintelligible gestures inside. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

It’s nice and warm there with a fire blazing in the grate, Mam sitting in the bed, and Dad reading The Irish Press and smoking a cigarette by the fire. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

It’s warm and smells like coffee and cigarettes. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Apparently, it wasn’t a good idea to pull a cigarette out of an inmate’s mouth. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hesitated, sighed, rolled another cigarette, and poured more coffee—in my cup as well as in his—before I could stop him. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Sitting Indian style, the Object leaned forward, holding the cigarette in her mouth over a green ceramic lighter shaped like an artichoke. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A thin line of cigarette smoke trailed through the short-order window and up to the ceiling. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He knew he cut a fine figure there on the platform with his open shirt collar, his cigarette holder, and his close-cropped, gray-tipped curly black hair. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

We stopped at the back door of a small cigarette shop nearby. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He flicked invisible ash off his candy cigarette. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“You know,” Alex says from where he’s kicked back on an Oval Office couch with a book, “somebody can go get you a cigarette.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was cold, and dry, and it tasted of cigarettes and of bile. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Here I was making clever statements like “king of the cigarette butts”; if I went outside, there was no telling what I would be capable of. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Ms. Lewis drops her cigarette on the porch and puts it out with the toe of her shoe. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

When I walked into the drugstore, he was behind the counter, placing cigarettes on the shelf. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Styx puffed on his candy cigarette and scrubbed at the lunch box like it was going to save his life. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

She hears the sparking of his lighter, the suck and flare of tobacco as his cigarette ignites. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Doctor Copeland lighted a cigarette and walked up and down the room. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Seeing as how I no longer ate anything, there were no rotting food scraps to worry about, just cigarette butts, aspirin tins, wads of undernourished hair, and bloody Kleenex. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they seemed to forget about the tape recorder, especially Lelia, who had a habit of talking to herself if she was short on cigarettes. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only sign of them is the orange flicker coming from the end of a cigarette. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

But it does not include restaurant meals, video rentals, Internet access, wine and liquor, cigarettes and lottery tickets, or even very much meat. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you didn’t have that cigarette in your mouth I’d give you a big kiss,” I said. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

The ground is littered with torn food packages, babies’ diapers, empty water bottles and spent cigarettes, dirty tissues, plastic bags. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

He lit a cigarette and stood there smoking, not saying anything. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The wine bottles kept coming around, and the cigarettes. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look up just as he flicks the cigarette. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The burnt hole from a cigarette, I wondered how long it had been there. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Henry reached into his pocket for a cigarette. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Alaska swallowed a mouthful of french fries, took a drag on her cigarette, and blew smoke across the table at Hank. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Sorry ’bout that, Matthew,” Mr. Ray said, tapping a box of cigarettes against his palm. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

On the table in front of him were books and papers, a steaming espresso pot and a tiny cup, and—I was surprised to see—an unfiltered cigarette burning in an ashtray. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He had, he knew, a further supply of cigarettes in one of his valises. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pilar My mother and I pass billboards advertising the revolution as if it were a new brand of cigarette. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mike kneeled by the fire, lighting one of the smaller sticks with a cigarette lighter. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He took the cigarette out momentarily and spoke in the confident voice to which I was accustomed. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Of course it counts,” he says, tapping a cigarette out of a crumpled pack left on the table, next to another one of those notepads. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He was making the rounds, distributing the cigarettes and pesos we always brought the guards to encourage them to treat our prisoners right. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The candy cigarette balanced on the edge of his lip. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The innocent man stood bewildered, a cigarette burning in his hand. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

She smokes openly now, ashing her cigarette directly onto the porch. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Occasionally, she reached for her smoldering cigarette resting in a Mason jar lid on the counter behind her. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Unwrapping it back in my hotel room, I crumbled the contents across a leaf of cigarette paper. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He took a cigarette from a pack on the table and lit it with fingers that bumped gently and incessantly against one another. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Bigger crushed his cigarette and took out another one and offered the package to Gus. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

With a scornful snicker, he settled himself behind his desk, replaced the empty cigarette holder in his mouth and lapsed into parturient silence for a few moments. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

There was a cigarette in his mouth, and he was holding a can of Old Milwaukee. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“I am far too old to sneak over. That is too hard for an old man like me. Do you want a cigarette?” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

When he entered our work area, I could smell his cigarettes and cologne before I saw him. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

He lights cigarette after cigarette; he hardly stops working. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Working her way through the doughnut, confectioners’ sugar snowing onto her chest, she said ruefully, “I miss my cigarette.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Sheriff Nagelman took one last puff of his cigarette, then crushed the stub under his foot. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Some went back into their cells promptly and voluntarily, but many talked, traded cigarettes, or even jogged away from their own cells to pass something to another inmate at the other end of the gallery. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I looked out at night, I could see the tiny orange ember at the end of Charlie’s cigarette getting brighter when he inhaled. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“These are his varsity letters. This is his cigarette case from when he used to smoke. Here’s his Purple Heart.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The closer he got to the hogan, the more he expected to smell cigarette smoke. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He was just wide awake on coffee and cigarettes and Mini Thins, which are these small pills you can buy at Quick Marts or Truck Stops. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

But Grabarek handled his first crisis well, meeting with the students’ lawyer and granting their request for food and cigarettes. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He took longer pulls on the bottle, and deeper drags on the cigarette to keep the warm, soft feeling in his head. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled a pack of cigarettes from her purse and shook one out. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Nicholson sat motionless for some few minutes after he left, his hands on the armrests of the chair, his unlighted cigarette still between the fingers of his left hand. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

He crushed out his cigarette and lit another. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Dad smokes in there, so there's often a whiff of cigarettes. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Like many usage controversies, the brouhaha over like a cigarette should is a product of grammatical ineptitude and historical ignorance. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

He was standing near the front end of the cart, amidst an assorted pile of cigarette boxes, egg cartons, and pop bottles. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled out a cigarette and ran it through my fingers, trying to straighten it. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He and Bailey told jokes, and Bailey laughed all the time, put out Dad’s cigarettes and held one hand on the steering wheel when Dad said, “Come on, boy, help me drive this thing.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then there’s hot air smudged with cigarette smoke hitting his face. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

The man with the rifle sat down and rested himself, and the trackers squatted near him, and in the evening the points of their cigarettes glowed and receded. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lit a cigarette and got all dressed and then I packed these two Gladstones I have. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

But the train jolts into motion, and the man finishes his cigarette and gives her a preoccupied smile and promptly falls asleep. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The audit detailed instances of flight crews smoking cigarettes on the tarmac during refueling and in the freight area; and when the plane was in the air. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

My father and my uncle Jim from Pennsylvania were sitting on folding metal chairs and smoking cigarettes. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

A stranger climbs up the side of his tanker car and asks for a cigarette. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

We loitered all afternoon in a dark little bar on Boylston Street, smoking cigarettes and drinking Irish whiskey. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Before long, Enrique will meet a man whose chest is pockmarked with cigarette burns. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I saw sweetshops and carpet vendors, kabob stalls, kids with dirt- caked hands selling cigarettes, tiny restaurants—maps of Afghanistan painted on their windows—all interlaced with back­street aid agencies. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It’s just me, the graffiti, the smell of crushed cigarettes, and three tears. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He paused to drag on his cigarette, and exhaled the smoke in a thin, sibilant stream from his mouth. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

He lit the cigarette and tossed the match out the window. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

When I say no, she throws her cigarette down the garbage disposal. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

X, opening a fresh pack of cigarettes, said he had just turned the radio off. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

He removed a cigarette from his lower lip. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“I can,” she said, dragging her cigarette deep into her lungs and then exhaling. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Still, her own cigarettes were two flights up, in one of several possible pockets. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Coach Spinks put out a cigarette by dropping it into a newly opened bottle of R.C. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I picked a cigarette from my stash I’d brought to the table. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“As for the whole drug thing, there’s no need to waste precious time. Really. Unless cigarettes count. Drugs and me? Not a good mix. Believe me, I’ve tried.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

When I climbed the staircase to the house, Dad was standing on the porch, smoking a cigarette. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Basta was still standing in the road, his face sharply outlined when he lit a cigarette with a lighter. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He flicked away his cigarette and spat a huge glistening wad over the railing. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

For packs of cigarettes, I beat just about anyone at dominoes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was managing somehow to polish her fingernails, smoke a cigarette, and drink a Diet Coke all at the same time. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Having been successful thus far, the abductors tended to relax, light up a few cigarettes, get chatty with their hostages. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

He digs into one and retrieves a bent cigarette. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Neither can I manage to talk with the many strangers who automatically seek me out whenever they need a cigarette or directions to the nearest Metro station. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

A haze of cigarette smoke drifted through the room. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now they are filled with crisps bags, cigarette filters, paper wrappers. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I was thinking the glow of his cigarette made him look mysterious. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I want to see what kind of parents you kids have,” the skinny one added, lighting a cigarette and blowing the smoke into the back seat. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Philip Lombard grinned and flung away his cigarette. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

He held the cigarette in his fingers and the smoke curled up past his bloodshot eyes. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of dirty, unshaven men pour from the train and surround it, like ants on candy, cursing and stretching and lighting cigarettes. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

And then Old Hirsch hides the food money because I refuse to bring home cigarettes. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Mrs. de Vries stares at me, taking out a cigarette as I stand in her foyer. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

But there were neither snakes, worms nor cigarettes in the box and its contents were very uninteresting. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cabbie flung his door open, and the pickup guy jumped down out of his seat and flicked a cigarette butt at him. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I’d sucked the whole cigarette down to the butt, in five or six long drags, composing myself to answer. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

She paused to give her son time to light another cigarette. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I light another cigarette and smoke it down to my fingers. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Once the bugs were worked out of the Bonsack machines, Duke churned cigarettes out of his factories at an unprecedented rate—823 million in 1889—and at a price his competition couldn’t match. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He flicked the ash off his cigarette and gave himself a self-satisfied look in the rear-view mirror. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Francis looked up at me, the unlit cigarette trembling in his fingertips. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Robbie flicked the lighter a few more times, turning his body away from the breeze, until finally the tip of the cigarette turned red. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

J.T. was coughing, but we’d both stepped away from Digger, who brought the cigarette down quickly and pulled his incriminating hand behind his back. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

"Well," I tell him, "I can't sell you cigarettes, but I can pay you a dollar to deliver some for me." How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He threw away the cigarette he had just lighted. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

After mopping its brow with a filthy handkerchief, the angel lit a cigarette by clicking together two nails on its left paw, inhaled deeply, and immediately had a long drawn-out coughing jag. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was lying supine, in just the trousers of his pajamas, a lighted cigarette in his right hand. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The cluster of bells thong-tied to the upper hinges of the entrance door jingled and a short, thin woman with a cigarette hanging straight downward from her mouth walked in. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He leaned back against the parapet and took out a cigarette as he watched her bobbing and receding form fade into the dusk. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Is that the first time you’ve shot a horse?” he says, plucking the cigarette from the package with his teeth. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He looked at his tomato plants as he rubbed lotion into his hands, cigarette dangling from the corner of his mouth. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Quinn lit a slender cigarette with a lighter of tasteful simplicity and his big-boned face settled into an expression of quiet amusement. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Lily and Lydia were out on the patio passing a cigarette back and forth between them. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

"No more cigarettes. They bad for you anyway." Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Congratulations,” he said, muffled through the cigarette he put in his own mouth. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of months after Erma died, Uncle Stanley fell asleep in the basement while reading comic books and smoking a cigarette. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She had let her cigarette go out and was listening intently. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

They lit cigarettes in the evenings as they sat in the kitchen, talking through their workdays. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The truth was that Mom saw it too: the peeling paint, the cigarette butts on the stairs, everything. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Chip hadn’t seen his father smoke a cigarette in years. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

And sat down on the edge of her bed again, to smoke a cigarette. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Jan paused again and sucked long and hard at his cigarette, blew the smoke out slowly and nervously bit his lips. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Can’t imagine how she manages to afford them all or even where she gets them—women are no longer allowed to buy cigarettes in Ormaie. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

After a meal, they’d play cards, smoke cigarettes, maybe a cigar, and drink a snifter of brandy. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z