| 单词 | smoking |
| 例句 | Card sharks lingered over green-felt tables in back rooms, smoking cigars, waiting for victims. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z "On the desk next to the smoking table." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z How do these three rules help us understand teenage smoking, for example, or the phenomenon of word of mouth, or crime, or the rise of a bestseller? The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I could see smoking ruins of huts and luaks, dead animals, and bodies of villagers whom the adults were trying to hide from the eyes of children. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, smoking thoughtfully, he listened to the radio and allowed his eyes to drift half-assedly around the landscape as he drove the fifteen or so miles to Dona Luz. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A boy, the same scanner machine above him flickering and smoking. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z A man got out and stood near me, smoking a cigarette. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Before the smoking carcass could strike the bricks, the dragon’s teeth closed round it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Dad was smoking, his eyes on the road. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The owner of the show stood smoking a cigarette by himself. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “But”—Hugo lit his own cigarette—“it's my duty to point out, this isn't just about smoking a humble cancer stick.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z I was not far out, since he said, after smoking a little:— Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Her words were hotter and darker than the smoking berries, and we backed away in dread. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Drogon landed on the carcass and sank his claws into the smoking flesh. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z 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 A tall, lean figure crossed the deck, holding up a smoking gun. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The two cars missed each other by an inch, and the Jaguar wedged itself between the school bus and the principal's 1970s Cadillac, tires smoking. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The two operators had finished work and were smoking together. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Zephyr and the noodly kid named Jared and a handful of others are smoking up as they leave, all walking in the direction of the street, probably on their way back to The Spot. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z They lounged against the wall of a liquor and soft-drink store, smoking cigarettes. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z The waving goddess stood outlined by the smoking metal wing as if she were a model in a showroom of plane wreckage. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The man came up, smoking a short bamboo pipe, and it was the father of the family in the hut next but two to Wang Lung’s hut. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z My palm had a huge red welt, oozing and smoking with yellow guck. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Dad was driving and smoking with one hand and holding a brown bottle of beer with the other. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He’s smoking a lot so he won’t feel hungry all the time; his teeth are breaking apart from decay. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z General Sykes was sitting there, smoking a cigar, staring down at some papers, dictating an order. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “He was trying to stop some of his teammates from smoking, and they let him take the fall.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Their hacking coughs and complete lack of output suggested that, for certain writers, smoking was obviously not enough. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The patio is sex segregated—the men sit to one side, smoking their cigars and tinkling their rum drinks. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Miss Sadie sat in a metal patio chair, smoking a corncob pipe and giving me instructions on how to put my weight into that shovel to turn up the dirt. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Tally grasped his hand, wondering what it was like to see your childhood home reduced to a smoking ruin. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Recently, she had picked up a bad cough along with the smoking. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When the sun went down, I put my smoking pamphlet on the page where I stopped reading and started driving home. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z I turned away, the bottle of port still on my tray, and re-entered the smoking room. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z I went right on smoking like a madman. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z The man sniffed the air and asked, “Who was smoking marijuana in here?” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z According to the Court, William Lee and Barbara Hill were rightfully evicted after their grandsons were charged with smoking marijuana in a parking lot near their apartments. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z But Miss Sadie was sitting out back on her metal patio chair, smoking her corncob pipe, like she hadn’t budged since the day before. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z She tossed him a bit of venison jerky, though, for him to chew on when he finished smoking his kinnikinnick. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z They sit by the fire smoking and talking about names. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The Appalachian Highlands, says the voiceover, where the Angels of the Apocalypse, Fourth Division, are smoking out a pocket of Baptist guerillas, with air support from the Twenty-first Battalion of the Angels of Light. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Four wealthier teenagers from Nuevo Laredo are sitting on couches in the living room, smoking crack they have just bought. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z It's hard to love a place that's outlawed smoking but finds it perfectly acceptable to serve raw fish in a bath of chocolate. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z I was smoking more those days, it was the tension, you could feel it, like a subterranean hum, although things seemed so quiet. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Within a few weeks, Your High-High, we will take the city of Tenebrion while it's in total disorder with a smoking hole of Nothing at its center. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z I push myself up from the smoking rubble. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Marshall came first, carrying the smoking incense burner. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Marcial was smoking a cigarette guardedly, holding it in his hand. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z It felt like smoking marijuana was my patriotic right. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z I asked, “Do you think that smoking in the bathroom with the nursery door open is serious enough to keep Vivian from getting another job?” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The base of the staircase was a smoking crater. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z She sat there smoking a slender length of dried grapevine as if it were some rare cheroot. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z His chain smoking gave him a chronic cough, causing army doctors to declare him “permanently incapacitated for active service.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He got detention twice that month before he bought a pack of nicotine gum and chewed it instead of smoking because his dad said if he got detention again, no bike. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z 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 In the brief moment it took to do that the entire shingle was smoldering and smoking, hot in my hand. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Some men were smoking from a gigantic pipe that they passed from one to the other. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Gary rolls his eyes and exhales through pursed lips like he's smoking. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z “She was smoking in the house? Just what Nicole needs, cancer in the air.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z He was smoking more than ever, as much as four or five packs a day. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Snape set down the smoking goblet, his eyes wandering between Harry and Lupin. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Mam and Bridey Hannon sit by the fire upstairs in Italy smoking Woodbines, drinking tea, and I sit on the stairs listening. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z In addition, once the fire died down, Stone Age entrepreneurs could walk through the smoking remains and harvest charcoaled animals, nuts and tubers. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z All was quiet now; there was no sign of the masked wizards, though several ruined tents were still smoking. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Beneath broken walls of dried mud, riders galloped back and forth, swinging their long whips as they herded the survivors from the smoking rubble. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Cato has finished the first phase of his tantrum and takes out his anger on the smoking remains by kicking open various containers. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z "I quit smoking last month," said the man in the cowboy hat. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z After that, Beto watched Henry walk off to talk to some men smoking at the edge of the parked cars, mostly out of sight of the ladies. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Racists are not the pipe- smoking type, I thought to myself. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of the band lay back from the fires, smoking and watching idly, talking softly among themselves; while others still ate, ladling the fragrant contents of a black iron pot onto tin plates. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The smoking zone passed under the highway and fanned out through a neighboring woodland and up towards St. Ignatius Catholic Church on a knoll above the town. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z He found Pollard mad with pain, “hotter than a smoking .45,” went one account, “and not holding back.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Nothing has been the same since my parents started smoking crack. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z He sat there in obvious pain, resting his finger on his lap and nervously smoking a cigarette despite the sign on the wall that said NO SMOKING. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z I spot a smoking wooden beam half in the water, half out. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Along the way he noticed that several houses were smoking and on the verge of igniting. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Scythe Chomsky used his flamethrower to set a corn maze ablaze, smoking people out to be picked off one by one by the other scythes. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z They reached South Parkway smoking freshly lit cigarettes. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z He was fully dressed and smoking a pipe. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z June 13: “Get remainder of rib-cage, shoulder and neck to cave. Start smoking.” Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z All it would have taken was just one more question about smoking. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The grounds were still smoking from the fire. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z 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 Several women are sitting in the chairs and on the sofa, with their shoes off, smoking. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z I led Dr Meredith downstairs, showed him into the billiard room, then returned quickly to the smoking room where the atmosphere, if anything, had grown even more convivial. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Looking out the window, I saw a smoking ring of trees from the clearing where we’d taken off. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Two night riders, tall and densely proportioned, idled on the porch smoking their pipes with complacent sloth. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z 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 The teenager was shoving the torch at the thatched roof now, because all the wall was doing was smoking. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Besides smoking, I was drinking around the clock. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z They called me “New York,” and let me sit out there all day, practicing my flute and smoking all the weed I wanted. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z They were smoking and had rifles over their shoulders. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z One of them was smoking a long pipe. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z In the cold night air the wound was smoking. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She sees herself walk out of the smoking city, trailing a white pillowcase. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “If Mother and Father knew you were smoking and drinking like this . . .” She trailed off. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “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 She sat there smoking away and gazing at the fire. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z She just sat there, smoking and driving, staring out her windshield. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Mr. Grote has become even more distant, up at the crack of dawn to go hunting, then skinning and smoking the meat at night. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z A handful of men sit at the counter, smoking and chatting with the girl who stands behind it. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z His sneakers are still smoking—the flames had been that close to him—but now the fire has retreated about a dozen feet. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z We go to movies, where we sit in the smoking section and neck, or we go to drive-ins and eat popcorn and neck there as well. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Madam let loose on me in the kitchen after the gentlemen had taken Master Lockton to Ashley’s Tavern for a night of beer drinking and pipe smoking. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a woman outside on the lawn, smoking. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z We walked down the steps, past men smoking in clusters. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Yesterday I caught this six-year-old boy smoking a cigarette—I wanted to smack him! Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Through the nights she stood like a field general over the kitchen counter, hands perched on those jutting hipbones, smoking with agitation, assessing points of entry and encampment and escape. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom was parked in the driveway, sitting in her old Buick, smoking and listening to the oldies station on the radio. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z In one of the porch’s three rockers, Lewis sat smoking his pipe and nursing a bottle of Pearl. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Not like a young man fighting for his family, smoking books, but like the little schoolboy who ran into my bedroom the night we were taken. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z So these now fell upon the suitors in that hall, turning, turning to strike and strike again, while torn men moaned at death, and blood ran smoking over the whole floor. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The lawn looked like a war zone, with smoking craters and trenches from the blown-out irrigation pipes. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The gold on his body was definitely smoking now, attracted to the catapult’s payload like iron to a giant magnet. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z And each time she returned, she remained in her bedroom, sitting all day like a Buddha, smoking her opium, talking softly to herself. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The doctor who performs the extractions tells him he’s smoking too much and eating too little. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Unfortunately for them, the place they’d chosen for their smoking experiment was the same one where Dusty Muleman had stored several surplus boxes of fireworks. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z The place I’m sitting in is the part of the H that mirrors the part next to the smoking lounge; Noelle said she didn’t smoke, so I think she wants to meet here. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Okay, usually a nefarious reason, like smoking or making out. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z 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 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 ‘We counted all the slain and despoiled them, and then we piled the carcases and burned them, as is our custom. The ashes are smoking still.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Links of chain, now glowing red from the heat of the fire, flew upward to land smoking at the feet of those who stood above. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z They were smoking and laughing like something was really, really funny. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z He was wearing a silk vest over his shirt with dragons embroidered on it in red thread, and he was smoking a long white clay pipe. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z They patrolled for underage smoking or drinking, offenses punishable by three weeks in prison and a fifty-reichsmarks fine. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z All the firecrackers in his hair had popped, and his braids were smoking. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z She's smoking this cigarette and squinting through the smoke at my father, like she's trying to figure out what he's thinking. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z Between them and the smoking mountain, and about it north and south, all seemed ruinous and dead, a desert burned and choked. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z I was smoking a cigarette and I did not look at her. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z A small wind had risen with the sun, blowing drifting snow over the smoking ashes. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The man picked up the skewers of meat off the smoking grill and piled them onto a wooden dish. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z In the parking lot, she saw the same shopgirl who had been smoking before. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I looked back at my uncle casually smoking his cigarette. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z I just drank because I figured that it was about time to stop smoking so much pot. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z A smoking roll of leaves juts from his mouth like a giant cigar. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Looking vastly troubled, she sat smoking for a long moment. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z He was an old man with a long, gray beard who wore a black coat and was constantly smoking cigarettes. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z They were smoking huge cigarettes they had rolled in newspaper. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z For a long time he lay on his back smoking, staring into the blackness of the cavernous roof. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z His kippah was smoking, his jacket was singed, and his hands were blistered. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z He had quit drinking and smoking, but had high cholesterol, hypertension, and diabetes. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Even this early they were smoking cigarettes and cigars. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a large room, with an oval table of polished rosewood on which stood various decanters and glasses, and a silver smoking stand with a rack of pipes. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Look, it’s none of my business if you guys are smoking. But it is my business when you’re on my property. You guys need to leave. I catch you here again, I’m calling your parents.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z 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 “My mommy would just die if she knew I was smoking El Producto Cigars,” Ben said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He was smoking now in silence, for Frodo was sitting still, deep in thought. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z It was just somewhere I could go when I didn't know how to settle all the rage swirling and smoking within me. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Bull was talking and smoking one Camel after another. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Under overpasses or in runoff drains they congregated, smoking cigarettes, the hoods of their sweatshirts pulled up. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I was so consumed by my feelings for Evan that it never crossed my mind that smoking pot was a privilege afforded to American teenagers and not us undocumented kids. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z “I hadn’t noticed it,” and he turned down the wick until the smoking stopped. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She leaned against the hood of the El Camino, smoking her cigarette and blowing smoke into the dark night sky. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z She grabbed her real wand and turned around to find that the sauce on the stove was smoking. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z And Morrison, if he hears, just thinks it’s another diatribe against smoking, but let’s face it, he doesn’t hear. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Lane, alone at the table, sat smoking and taking conservative drinks from his Martini to make it last till Franny got back. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z We spent several days gathering white oak acorns and groundnuts, harvesting the blueberry crop and smoking fish. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Just after I turned out the lights and opened the door, I heard her say softly, “I want you to stop smoking, you hear?” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z We walked out the front door, through a crowd either passed out on the porch or smoking in the yard. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z Lizzie’s granddaddy was not sitting on the doorstep smoking his pipe, and Turner felt the loneliness of the place. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z He sat in his room smoking cigarettes all day. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z He staggered a bit with a smoking crater on top of his misshapen head, but he roared in anger and kept advancing. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z All around the smoking room, gentlemen seemed to be standing in clusters laughing and clapping each other on the shoulder. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z If they did I’d be on the first thing smoking back to Flint. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z If my face got any warmer, my eyebrows would’ve started smoking, but I refused to look away. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z There was a cluster of men, all smoking pipes, gathered around an exhibit in a glass case that gleamed in the dim light and lit their faces ghoulishly from below. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z To this day, I have always marveled at how Rudy, somehow, got the word, and I know he must have caught the first thing smoking out of Boston, and he got away. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z We walked out onto a stage that contained only two chairs and a smoking stand. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He was smoking a cigarette, and from the evenness of his exhalations Nye deduced that he was still a “virgin”—that is, still uninformed about the real purpose of the interview. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z There were no cars in the parking lot, but a dozen or more men and women were hanging around outside of their rooms, smoking, talking, fighting. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z He sent one of the rats scurrying away with a smoking behind as a warning to the rest. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z 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 Tight circles of strangers were drinking and smoking, oblivious to us. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Violet’s eyes, squinted and smoking with fury, stared right at the sister. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Five cars were parked in the yard when he arrived; eight men had gathered in a single group smoking and talking quietly—one man had a bottle. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z We sat looking at one another, smoking silently. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z A young pianist sat on his piano stool, relaxed, smiling, smoking. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z She was scared, and it wasn’t until she had a sip of whatever we were drinking or a hit off of whatever we were smoking that she would calm down and be the same Sam. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z The guard, wearing a heavy blanket, and smoking a pipe gave a terse reply, “Six.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z A lifelong smoker, Walter tried to smoke to calm his nerves, but at Holman he found the experience of smoking nauseating and quit immediately. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Spassky, looking uncomfortable, sat on Bobby’s right, and Vasiljevic, smoking a meerschaum pipe and appearing relaxed, was on his left. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z They were smoking and giving some boys who were yelling at them the finger. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Football was just something I did along with drinking, smoking, and drugs. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z When summer came, Brad didn’t have to worry about school or anything, so his drinking and smoking got a lot worse. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z Maybe then he’d hire somebody to keep it clean, or an armed guard to stop people from plugging up the toilet, smoking, or writing on the walls. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z “Your mother would kill you if she knew about your smoking,” Laila said, looking one way, then the other, before slipping into the alley. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z 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 The lodgers had already ended their night meal, the middle one had pulled out a newspaper and had given each of the other two a page, and they were now leaning back, reading and smoking. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z There was the shopping, and then there was the smoking. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z I was ready to give a deposition about her smoking. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The fire was smoking and she knelt down to mend it. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Henry lit one of the Camels and made a show of smoking for a few minutes. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The remaining Fox Brothers men, no longer on anyone’s payroll, sit and watch, smoking and spitting wads of tobacco juice into tall patches of Queen Anne’s lace and thistles. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Then Victoria called over a respectable gentleman, greying at the temples, who was smoking a black cheroot and who grinned as if he had the toothache. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z A blast of lightning split the tree down to its roots, opening a smoking crevice. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “You don’t need to be nervous. But this is the seventh time I’ve been caught smoking. I just don’t want — whatever. I don’t want to upset my dad.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z For the next few months, she trekked regularly to “the smoking department” at Bellevue. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The rebels sat on the ground and started playing cards, smoking marijuana, and boasting about what they had done that day. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Evan said he quit smoking pot, and I asked him what he was going to do with his pipe. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Watching them sit there playing with their sons, reading the paper, smoking, or drinking a Coke, I never would have guessed they were on trial for murder. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z Across the road some troops stood in the church doorway smoking pipes. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 The last thing I see that day is Thomas and Tony O’Reilly sitting on the steps of the church, smoking together. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z As she sat there smoking her foul cigar and talking away, I kept looking at the hand with the missing thumb. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z Winston was smoking a Victory Cigarette which he held carefully horizontal. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Since smoking wasn’t permitted there and Lee couldn’t sit still for long without smoking, they didn’t linger to talk after coffee and dessert. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The paper had stopped burning and was just sitting there smoking. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Miss Saunders says we were cutting class in the bathroom, smoking, destroying property. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z The games went good because there’s always some smoking brothers playing at the Y. At the Y if you can’t get down you got to watch. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z “Are you okay? You turned pale and ... you started smoking.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “He just stands around smoking and yelling at us.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z “Were you just smoking and chewing tobacco at the same time?” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Sometimes I saw them up on the roof of their apartment, smoking a water pipe and talking together in their funny Ningbo accent. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “You need to either stop smoking pot or buy some cologne or something. And breath mints. The fact that Claire doesn’t know yet is insane. She must be in some sort of denial.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Her nose twitched, and she looked down to find the tortilla blackened and smoking in the pan. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I tried to fool myself into thinking that smoking was actually doing something, as if the smoke rising from my mouth was evidence of a churning industry that thrived inside me. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z The first time Charlie got high school detention, it was for smoking. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Hazel glanced back and saw a line of smoking pavement where Arion’s hooves had touched the ground. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Stan, for example, a twenty-something fellow with wildly misaligned teeth, is so eager to talk that he fairly pounces on the seat next to mine on a bench in the smoking area. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In the smoking room, my gaze was drawn to the top hat dangling from the brass coatrack. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z They lay on their beds smoking, silently staring at the ceiling, brooding over their recent memories. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z They lingered by the road after their lunchtime meal, the white men smoking pipes by the horses and reminiscing an escapade. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z 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 But by then I had gotten used to not smoking and it wasn’t a punishment anymore. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z By the time I had reached my freshman year in high school, I was smoking pot three to five times a day. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Some of them you get from smoking and drinking and being fat and not exercising. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “He says that she’s worried that someone might tell the agency that she’s started smoking again. I guess it’s a rule that au pairs have to promise not to smoke.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z At one party she went to, some of them started smoking marijuana. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Instead, everyone was up and smoking hash for breakfast. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Back at Room 43, the Colonel was smoking in the room. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z But smoking wasn't doing any more than providing a physical activity that masked the emptiness behind it. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z He sat for a moment smoking and experimenting. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z But I had come in there not smoking cigarettes, or eating pork when it was served. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I asked the man smoking a pipe on the front steps. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Madame Sabbar herself was sitting on the stage smoking a cigar. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z The three men lay on their beds, smoking and waiting. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z 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 I chew my nails to keep from smoking one. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Papá sat at the kitchen table, smoking a cigarette and staring out into space. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z They smelled the Smoke long before they saw it From high up the mountain, the buildings had the look of a burned-out campfire, smoking, crumbling, blackened through and through. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z We sat side by side, not speaking, only smoking, facing the interior of the museum. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z 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 That night in his own room he tied one end of the silk sash of his smoking jacket around his neck, then stretched out on the bed and tied the other end to the bedstead. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z But if he turned round—he was standing with his back to the house, smoking—he would see right into the room. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z In the remains of the gypsy camp there was nothing but a garbage pit among the still smoking ashes of the extinguished campfires. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Because they couldn’t be upset about something rational like Frank’s constant smoking or the fact that the three of us have to share a room together. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z I started drinking and smoking moderately in the summer after sixth grade. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Frank batted at them until they stopped smoking, but he wasn’t particularly worried. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The boat shuddered with the great, smoking, sunlit waves that hit her as she ran, but she went gallantly as her builder had promised, answering the magewind as true as any spell-enwoven ship of Roke. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z He had even taken to smoking, and smoking cigars, since Joe’s death and tried to bite ’em tight in one side of his mouth like Joe. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z He smacks his gloved hands together, and the dogs swirl around him, their breath smoking. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Better to go outdoors to the fenced-in smoking area in front of the store. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The girl was extraordinarily lucky, Mariam thought, to escape with relatively minor injuries, considering the rocket had turned her house into smoking rubble. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z 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 Inside was a narrow hallway and a cramped office, where an old man with his back to them was smoking a cigarette. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z And so when Evan asked me if I'd ever be interested in smoking out with him after school, I said: "Affirmative, love of my young life." Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z They sit in clumps, on the floor, in the dark, listening to folksongs about women being stabbed with daggers, and smoking marijuana cigarettes, which is what people do in New York. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “What do you want to go see an old Indian smoking a pipe for?” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z It was supposed to be temporary, but I was sealcoating the parking lot of this building and the landlord, he used to stand out on the balcony, smoking a cigar while I worked. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Everyone was inside, in class, except for a few students clustered—just off school grounds—at the nearby traffic triangle, smoking. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z During one of these interruptions, he saw them standing on the concrete apron out front smoking and talking and swigging bottles of Coca-Cola. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z On the throne now sat Notus—a bronze-skinned old man in a fiery Greek chiton, his head crowned with a wreath of withered, smoking barley. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z 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 “It was smoking when we got home,” said Perilee, slowly stroking her burgeoning middle. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Officers around us were smoking, though nobody was supposed to. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z After that Joe stood on the ditch bank smoking a cigarette. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a short man, with round, pink features, always immaculately dressed, always smoking long, expensive cigars. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The walls, which may have once been white, were a tarry yellow, and judging from the smell and the big, brimming ashtray, smoking was definitely encouraged at the Red Carpet. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Tyson pulled him out from behind the exercise mat just as the ball exploded against it, blasting the mat to smoking shreds. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z They all looked to the man standing, gun smoking, across the dock. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z He snorted—my suggestion was ridiculous—and I remembered a time in junior high when I came home from health class and talked to him about the dangers of smoking. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z He was smoking, too, but he wasn’t working at it as hard as Mr. Kowalski was. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z No smoking anywhere, or at least not within fifteen minutes of arrival at a house. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 saw a group of old men, two seated across a folding table playing a game of chess, others smoking pipes, eating peanuts, and watching. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Tall and pig-bellied, black cowboy hat, tan cowboy boots, cigar smoking, teeth shining, red in face, golden in hair. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z She was smoking and drinking and watching Bunker with the volume muted so she could read. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Following her gaze Alice lifted the iron and saw what Violet saw: the black and smoking ship burned clear through the yoke. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The faction she led in the Sub-Deb girls’ club had been admonished to stop wearing low-cut dresses, smoking in the rest rooms, and sneaking out of class to smooch with boys in the band-instrument storeroom. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He explained to me, in a bloody irritating whisper, that he personally had no objection to smoking, but that, alas, the school’s policy was against smoking in the instructors’ room. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z But by now there were a few other people chasing after the sputtering, smoking machine. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Probably from smoking so much, but having the name Wally probably doesn’t help. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z A woman with a fringed shawl draped over her shoulders was smoking a cigarette on the Green Lantern’s front porch. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z She must finish smoking every morsel of meat. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z There was an old man in front of the yard smoking a badly carved wooden pipe. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Maybe he will give up smoking after all. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z The guard sat under a tree and watched, smoking cigarettes. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z “There’s a map,” she told me, turning her head slowly to look at the smoking house. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z I passed around the bottle of brand while the pig cooked over the fire, smoking and dripping fat onto the coals. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I could see Favell leaning back in his car behind us and smoking a cigarette. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z People sitting on the sidewalk in the dawn half immolate and smoking in their clothes. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z He stared up at the smoking hill of ash and then down at the stampede of footprints around it. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Like a stream running down into the ocean, the line veers toward a distant fog, out of which rises a tall, smoking chimney. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z If you say something to Pa he doesn’t like, he’ll answer, “You’ll be the death of me,” while calmly reading the newspaper and smoking his pipe. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The lamp was smoking; the black smoke going close up inside the chimney. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The sun went down, blood-red in a smoking haze. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z His state of mind was bad; he was emaciated; and he was smoking sixty cigarettes a day. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Swordfish and the hulk were gone, blackened bodies were floating downstream heside him, and rihnkmg men dinging to bits of smoking wood. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The landscape was gouged with smoking craters, fresh-turned earth thrown everywhere as if some giant dog had been digging at it. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Whenever the smoking lamp was lit—which meant any one who wanted to take a break could do so—my friends and I would pick up our rifles and practice bayonet fighting with them. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “The smoking makes you ugly,” I say, and I walk out, leaving her stranded among the haze. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z When I looked back in the side mirror, the SUV was on its side in a smoking heap. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The stack containing my aunt’s trailer had collapsed into a fiery, smoking ruin, along with all of the stacks adjacent to it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Throwing open the French windows of the drawing-room we sat smoking out into the darkness. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z We were just passing a smoking volcano island. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Its top was gone—a smoking crater was all that remained. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z They don’t suspect him, for instance, of smoking pot, which he does from time to time when he and his friends get together to listen to records at one another’s homes. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She stayed in the yard, smoking her little pipe, while they made a fire outside to roast the meat over the coals. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Outside, I could see one of our thrusters still smoking, and then a helicopter flashed by the window. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I see crackheads getting high in the “cut” smoking their pipes. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Probably smoking cigarettes with some boy in the parking lot of the Piggly Wiggly across from the high school. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z The woman introduced herself as Rosemary and brought them to a makeup area, where the three backup singers were smoking. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z And then he looked directly at me—slyly—meaning that she was worried that I might tell the agency that she started smoking again. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Mother’s been nagging me about my smoking and I know I should|Stop, but it’s not like it’s going to kill me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Though it wasn’t after dinner, I lit the cigar—a Davidoff Grand Cru No. 3 —and stood smoking, trying to calm myself. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Shorty had been smoking marijuana ever since his adolescence, and he had his own private pot plot by the river north of the Dancing Trout. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z At the meetings the men would be smoking, talking loudly, almost shouting their opinions. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Somebody was smoking weed in the booth near the window. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z He’d been smoking a lot since he got back from Italy, almost a pack a day, which was rare for him. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Alex and the rest of the basketball team are smoking weed near the window. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z He was standing next to the wall, smoking himself to death and looking bored as hell. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z “Sometimes at the other end by the smoking lounge.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Sefia skirted the clearing while the boy stood beside the ashes, staring at the smoking mound as if he couldn’t quite understand what it was. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z 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 The gentlemen retired to the smoking room for port and cigars. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Some of the gentlemen pitch in and work hard, but most of them just take turns standing guard, their muskets ready, with slow matches smoking. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z To me, and to every sensible person I knew, smoking was pure self-destruction. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z 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 The room beyond the doorway comes into focus, the haze from a trio of half-dressed ladies sitting around a table smoking cigarillos and playing cards. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z As he lay in bed, he realized how time seemed to stop when he was high, how the drug—smoking it, feeling its effects, recovering from it—made him forget everything else. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z He was sitting at the table smoking a cigar. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Close to me, a broken body lies under a heap of smoking rubble. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z She stopped smoking while she was pregnant with Mitt and then until he started nursery school. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It didn’t seem to have affected Alaska, though, who was 1. in our room after dark with the door closed, and 2. smoking a cigarette as she sat on the mostly foam couch. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z He found a smoking lounge with a wood-burning fireplace that stretched the width of the room and murals and carvings meant to suggest that the smoker had entered an Aztec temple. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z My mother was pacing up and down the room, as if neither direction would do, and smoking steadily. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z But instead of smoking in the doorway, he crossed the room and sat beside her where she lay on the bed. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z 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 He opens the door and lets Karin and Ilse go out first, and then I shuffle around while holding on to Helena’s hand so that the smoking doctor leaves next. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The rest of June was spent smoking it, tanning it, and finally, starting on my deerskin suit. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z In the course of clearing the dining room, and also in preparing the drawing room for the arrival of the evening's visitors, I was obliged to walk repeatedly past the smoking- room doors. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z He looked like somebody just out of high school, who’d flunked PE and hung out with the shop boys smoking at recess. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I have been just too busy gathering nuts and berries, smoking venison, fish, and small game to keep up with the exact date. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z He was sitting on a large rock, looking up at the sky, smoking his pipe. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z At that Turner crossed his legs the other way and kept right on smoking his pipe. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z But it wasn’t just smoking or skirting around Mother. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Even when she’s not smoking, she pauses anyway, as if to keep in practice for those moments when she is. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Mam is smoking, too.Well, she says, is he going to be an altar boy? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Behind him, two girls pass a smoking bong between them. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z I guess that’s how we worked our way into full-time-stoner status, how we ended up where we were at that moment, sitting in Fang’s basement, smoking up on his refugee couch. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z “And he said that she said that the agency won’t place her if they find out, and I asked, ‘Find out what?’ and he said, ‘Someone might tell them that she started smoking again.’ Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She has taken to smoking the same brand herself late at night when she totals the day’s receipts at the kitchen table. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “We can’t go on like this much longer,” said Henry at the twins’ apartment that night, as we were smoking cigarettes over uneaten plates of bacon and eggs. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The hoverpath wound through the smoking camp, over what streets remained between the charred ruins. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z She says she’ll give up the smoking when her new teeth are in but she never does. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I walk through the snack bar, ignoring Patsy Joiner, my old tennis partner who dumped me, and three other girls, all smoking at the black iron tables. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The Jury meted out punishment for nonexpellable offenses, for everything from staying out past curfew to smoking. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z And if he isn’t talking, he’s smoking his smelly cigars all over the house. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Mariam would see them when she passed by, always dressed in their fatigues, squatting by the front door of Tariq’s house, playing cards and smoking, their Kalashnikovs leaning against the wall. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z “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 He lit a cigarette and stood there smoking, not saying anything. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The group made several circuits, sipping champagne and smoking cigars, then exited the wheel to the cheers of the crowd that now thronged its base. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z And weed makes me paranoid, like something terrible is about to happen, so I stopped smoking it. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z 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 His breath was smoking, and the darkness was less near and thick. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The rubble isn’t smoking, the way the Capitol shows it on television, but there’s next to no life aboveground. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z He traced his first heart attack to his smoking, his diet, and the stress from a grueling divorce. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Anyone looking on might think I was smoking Dad’s pot, I bet. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z 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 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 Every warning indicator in my cockpit started to flash as my mech began to fall out of the sky in two smoking, burning halves. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z She seemed more like a mistress: her brazenly red lipstick, her tight dress, her smoking. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z She was smoking a cigarette and flicking the ashes on the rug. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z A Tareyton ad comes on, the one where the girl smoking the cigarette has a black eye—Us Tareyton smokers would rather fight than switch! The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The house and barn were gone, and smoking piles of ash and charred wood were all that remained. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z This tower felt different from the first, older, its rough-hewn stone walls blackened by smoking torches. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “I was smoking a cigarette,” was his reply. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z My dad was outside smoking a cigarette when Maribel and I pulled into the parking lot of the building. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Finally he said, “There’s something cool about smoking, don’t you think?” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Some evenings, Lita’s friends were over, speaking Polish and smoking cigarettes. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The boatman sat at his tiller smoking a pipe, looking stolidly ahead. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z From where Marcus’s friends sat and stood on the patio, drinking and smoking and judging, I felt their contempt. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “Sure,” I said, and after I got her set up I ran down to the newspaper office where Mr. Greene was smoking his pipe. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z All of a sudden, while I was laying there smoking, somebody knocked on the door. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Using a rake made from a stick of red willow pulled up by the roots, the two girls took turns turning the rice over and over, smoking and toasting the grains. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z ‘Why are you lighting cigarettes and not smoking them?’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 In the metal stand opposite the hearth where a fire now blazed up warmly, a cigar popped out, half an inch of soft gray ash on it, smoking, waiting. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Frito grinned and whistled at their cousins smoking by the window. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z At the edge of the park two Jackboots stood talking and smoking cigarettes. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z He started smoking one recently as part of this whole 1950s, Father Knows Best retro kick he is on. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I sat there for surely an hour, staring at a daylit hole in the window blind, without smoking or taking off my coat or loosening my necktie. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z 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 The sofa cricked in criticism, and Tom looked at it and at the smoking lamp to which the sofa referred. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Dany, starved, slid off his back and ate with him, ripping chunks of smoking meat from the dead horse with bare, burned hands. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z By now, with Monica back in from her smoking break, Mark scurries out of the way and Garret stands. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z They sat in silence on the hay bales smoking the first cigarette of the day. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Thus as I sipped my smoking sour beer I thought that at table Estraven’s performance had been womanly, all charm and tact and lack of substance, specious and adroit. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Where Hyperion had been, there was nothing but a smoking crater. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “No smoking pot” became “no smoking pot in the house," before it finally petered out to “please don't smoke any more pot in the living room." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z If he smoked he would be smoking a pipe about now, but he didn’t smoke. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z The turtle was already a hundred yards behind them, its head charred and smoking. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He glanced across at the other two but they were facing away from him, standing apart, smoking silently. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Wang Lung sat smoking, thinking of the silver as it had lain upon the table. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Then I made the mistake of telling him that my father had also said that if the Zamborskas said that she was wonderful in every way except for smoking, Summerhill will find Vivian another family. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He was the kind of kid who made you wonder what his mama had been smoking when he was in the womb. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I cringed at the idea of Mom running her own place, stress smoking and screaming at the help, but there were worse dreams to have. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z As Bunny rattled on he would sit smoking with deep, resolute drags, pretending not to understand Bun’s fallacious Italian. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Then I spotted my jeans in a smoking heap of clothes right by the giant’s feet If I could only get there 1 knew it was hopeless, but I charged. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z They sat smoking, with the wisps of smoke curling up around their chins, looking very wise, Mario thought. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z He was getting detention again—weekly—for smoking and other rebellious acts, and hanging out full-time with the Detentionheads when he wasn’t busy becoming his father. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z 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 She’d started smoking crack, which was plentiful, to replace the booze, which was scarce. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z When nothing happened, she went out to the kitchen and opened the windows so we couldn’t tell that she was smoking. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z When I pull into the parking lot, Lazy Larry is standing there, smoking a cigarette. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z “Well, I mean, Brady and Patrick were out in the parking lot of the Coachlight Inn smoking pot with him night before last.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Blood trickled down her thigh, black and smoking. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Alaska and I were smoking down by the lake. We usually go off campus, but we forgot. We’re sorry. It won’t happen again.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z He was smoking a cigarette; there was a newspaper tucked under his arm. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z 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 When the Dean catches you smoking, it really may be hazardous to your health. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z Judging from their corroded shields and the smoking plumes on their helmets, they’d already learned about the basilisks’ poison and fire. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z He sat on a bench, drinking coffee and smoking, reading poetry and listening to rain pound the canvas roof. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The halls were packed, everyone smoking, laughing, extra chairs wedged in at full tables, people with plates of food roaming from group to group to say hello. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The warriors said the slow matches on the English men’s guns were smoking up the room, making them sick, and they should put them out. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z It was smoking wildly, belching out thick smoke, as if it were only one small spark away from exploding. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z At night, instead of sitting and reading and smoking his pipe in the living room, as he had done before, Mr. Popper would put on his overcoat and take his things downstairs. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z They argued a bit more then went on to the house where Joe was and found him in his shirt-sleeves, standing with his legs wide apart, asking questions and smoking a cigar. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z The back corner of the house had been reduced to a slumped and smoking ruin. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Leo scanned the workshop, now littered with smoking pieces of broken spheres. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Upstairs was my bedroom, Baba’s room, and his study, also known as “the smoking room,” which perpetually smelled of tobacco and cinnamon. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Baba and Rahim Khan were smoking pipes and sipping brandy when I came in. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He imagines her smoking in the stall, the lid of the toilet seat down. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z His Roman candle is still poised in the air, but the tube is smoking, empty. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z You never saw so many phonies in all your life, everybody smoking their ears off and talking about the play so that everybody could hear and know how sharp they were. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z He could see into the kitchen, where their waiter was smoking a long, thin cigarette. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z He listened, smoking and nodding his head; then he asked me to read it again. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z 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 I asked, “Will the Summerhill Agency find her another place if they know that she didn’t keep her promise to stop smoking?” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The hall opened up into a large room, where gentlemen sat smoking at lounges and seats. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z They were quiet again, smoking: the radio announcer dedicated a song to Chuck, a Consolidated Freightways driver zooming along the highway somewhere east of Ponca City. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Right, well, in the other hall, by where the smoking area is, I asked Smitty to put the Egyptian music.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z But I keep smoking because I’m hoping that one day it will feel good, that I’ll be all floaty and calm, like everyone says. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z 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 “Standing just outside the door in the corridor smoking a cigarette.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z She removed her green jacket, then gently took the smoking match out of the girl’s hand. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z 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 She had applied a bright blue mask to her face, was smoking and sipping some bourbon with ice and leafing through a fat paperback book whose pages had buckled and turned gray from the water. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Although they seemed more interested in smoking and telling jokes, slipping a beet into my underwear unnoticed was no easy task. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Captain Morse was idling on the porch, smoking a pipe. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Everything: get the right temperature in your hot-water bottle and make sure the smoking tobacco in the silver humidor is fresh each and every day. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z "He's just been in a bad mood ever since he quit smoking. The person you've got to worry about is the Warden. There's really only one rule at Camp Green Lake: Don't upset the Warden." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z Did she think I thought smoking and drinking were supposed to make me live longer? The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z Meera Reed rose, her frog spear in her hand, a chunk of smoking meat still impaled upon its tines. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Then, after an intense session, I'd step out of the bathroom and pace the carpet while smoking my hash pipe. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z There were so many men smoking inside the tent that it appeared to be on fire. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z He stuffed the Playboy in his back pocket, dropped the joint he had been smoking, carefully killed it with his sneaker, picked it up, and put the roach in his wallet. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z There, what was left of the draperies lay smoking on the ground. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z First we saw teenagers at a party smoking drugs. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Oh, and while you're here, there's another guy in the backyard smoking hash. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z And then there were the actual lessons where they showed us horrible pictures of what smoking did to the insides of your body. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z His family’s finances have been stressed in recent years, and both his parents quit smoking in order to save money. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z The rocket fire had extinguished, though smoking bronze exhaust vents still jutted from the stern. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Guests with drinks in hand were chatting in the hallways, smoking on the stairs, leaning against doorways. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z A couple of tall weedy guys leaning against a wall smoking and laughing and radiating cool. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z With one flap of its wings, three trees turned to smoking ash. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Carl’s dad, in fact, and I didn’t want anything whatsoever to do with smoking. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z All of the town's big shots were there in their tuxedoes, wolfing down the buffet foods, drinking beer and whiskey and smoking black cigars. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z A group of boys were smoking and laughing close by and for a moment, their laughter seemed directed at her. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z It took a second for me to realize she wasn’t smoking a cigarette. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z It froze water lines and hydrants and drove workers to break Burnham’s ban on smoking and open flame. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z On the small smoking table beside the stand of pipes, I caught sight of the mechanical bank, swaddled in an apron. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The boys sat under the bridge drinking malt liquor and smoking as the morning quickly turned to afternoon. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z “If you make me go back, I swear I’ll start smoking pot.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z We sat under the huts smoking marijuana and watched them dig in the rain. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z When it was done, she put it smoking hot on the plate. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z We were upstairs in Baba’s study, the smoking room, when I told him what Mullah Fatiullah Khan had taught us in class. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Then he started walking up and down the room, taking these very small steps, the way a woman does, and smoking a cigarette and looking at himself in the mirror. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z They often sat up late together, Fuchs smoking, Feynman sipping orange juice. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z At ten that night I go to the break room for my final break, too footsore to walk out to the smoking area, and sit down with my feet up on the bench. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He strictly forbade his boys from smoking, cursing, or drinking, though he was known occasionally to do all three himself when safely out of sight or earshot of his crews. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I pictured him and Baba drinking tea in Baba’s study, then smoking near the window, a sweetbrier-scented breeze blowing from the garden and bending the twin columns of smoke. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The Butler trimmed the wick, and put another log on the fire as well, and then listened carefully at the hall door before helping himself to a handful of leaf from the smoking stand. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Viserys began to laugh, until his jaw fell away from his face, smoking, and blood and molten gold ran from his mouth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I’m glad Laurie seems so happy and busy, that he has given up smoking and lets his hair grow. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Wreckage everywhere, mounded bodies, smoking earth, naked stumps of trees. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z We have slaughtered early and we are smoking now for to sell to the militia. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z A man sat in his doorway, smoking a pipe. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z After eating, Lefty joined the men smoking at the rail while Desdemona hunched on deck with the women and children, staying out of the wind. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z When they caught a glimpse of the country westward the distant Forest seemed to be smoking, as if the fallen rain was steaming up again from leaf and root and mould. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He read the article and choked, spitting liquid onto his smoking jacket. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She was smoking a cigarette in a long holder. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 I turned right as if to make a move, and suddenly I felt an awful burn on my upper right arm before I turned to see him holding a smoking long gun. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Alaska crouched down, picked up the cigarette she had thrown away, and started smoking again. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z There, the scrub oak was lying splintered and smoking over the bank, its blackened branches in the water. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The boys who were not smoking were eating. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Principal Principal stalked out of the room in the direction of the Human Waste’s smoking haven. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z And Frau Elena’s toothache is better now but she can’t smoke which makes her cranky, did I tell you she started smoking . All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z This one was smoking a cigar as long as his face. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z And he and Mama have always made it clear that smoking is completely off limits. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z It's no different than usual, being at Brick's place, smoking and drinking. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He was in the Street Sweepers’ section, in a stovepipe hat, carrying a two inch Italian flag, smoking a cigar among the brooms and scoops. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 Just like my sister getting mad at me for smoking cigarettes. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z 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 “They pay for what I provide by working for me, keeping the place clean, obeying my rules. No smoking, no lying, no stealing.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z He had been smoking them since he was sixteen, and regularly, as many as a dozen a day—expensive panatelas, for the most part—since he was eighteen. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z He reached and got the bottle and tilted it and lit the wick and blew out the flame in the dish and handed the smoking bottle to the boy. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z It was the craziest baseball swing you ever saw, but there was the ball smoking out to center field. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Some are smoking, the burning tips of cigarettes bright in the black. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z There, sitting on the back steps in the dark, stroking one of the Outside Cats, sat Granddaddy, smoking a cigar and staring at the sky. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “Sure. I always wear skirts when I visit my old teachers. You look smoking hot though.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She stood, leaning against the central pillar, smoking and watching her brother. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z 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 The square where we’d chased pigeons was a smoking hole in the cobblestones. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z He went to the drug store and looked inside at the man leaning against a wall, smoking. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z An entire section of wall had collapsed, leaving a slope of smoking rubble. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “What kind of question is that?” she said, and went back to whisking the gravy in the fragrant, smoking pan. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z He was preoccupied, smoking a cigarette, but the thought that he might see me filled me with an inexplicable anxiety. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z And Mother was wearing a pair of shorts made out of denim and a light blue bikini top and she was smoking cigarettes called Consulate which were mint flavor. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z They stood in a group smoking, four cars down. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Every light in the hall was ablaze, every lamp turned as high as it could be without smoking the chimney or threatening explosion. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z They laughed again, reclining against the wall, smoking, the lids of their eyes drooped softly against the sun. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The smoking evil wasn’t invented in Prophet Muhammad’s days—if it had been, I believe he would have banned it. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew Vega’s mami wouldn’t like his cousins smoking in here. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z And, of course, he was smoking a candy cigarette. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z They reached the smoking wreckage of the plane’s cabin. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z “Listen,” she said, and together they listened, smoking while Ruby moved almost imperceptibly on him. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He lay back in bed smoking a cigarette. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Soldiers streamed down the hill across the smoking patch of field and then plunged into the river. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z At the rear of the bus, the driver wrenched a big chunk of smoking metal out of the engine compartment. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Everyone on the bus was smoking pot and listening to the same Crosby, Stills, and Nash album continuously, on a tape player running on batteries. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Once some old chief went with him; they came back with arrowheads and sat on the porch smoking pipes until two o’clock in the morning. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z I still see Papa sitting on our steps for long hours, smoking cigarettes in his ivory holder, staring into the mountains he went to with his eyes whenever he needed sustenance. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z A paunchy man, holding a large black camera that was smoking slightly, was watching Fleur out of the corner of his eye. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The white men were smoking and yelling obscenities at us. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Dylan Pothead is smoking a joint in the parking lot when I get back. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z She sat, with her feet propped up near the stove, smoking. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z No barracks remain in the rear view now, just a smoking road to nowhere. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “No! I mean, yes. I mean, I just wanted to play basketball. I wasn’t smoking!” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Here’s a hint: If you can substitute a noun for the ing word—departure in place of going, for example, or habit tot smoking—then treat it like a noun. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The smoking fire burned her eyes as she took another bite. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z But I smile, because the thought of a giant, smoking hole in Blackcliff’s wall is a happy one. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Mr. Justice Wargrave looked thoughtfully out of the smoking room window. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z 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 The gypsy wrapped him in the frightful climate of his look before he turned into a puddle of pestilential and smoking pitch over which the echo of his reply still floated: “Melquíades is dead.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The smoking, ruined villages, the broken pieces of brick in the street, the frozen corpses, the shattered walls, the upturned cars, the barking dogs, the scurrying rats and lice: how can they live like that? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z She pointed at the volcano’s smoking peak with her chin, and her heart constricted a bit. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Some of them had spilled out onto the steps; groups of them had formed circles on the lawn, laughing and kicking hacky sacks and, in some cases, even smoking right there on school property. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Long after their voices had faded away, Arya could still see the light of the torch, a smoking star that bid her follow. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She found her son surrounded by his father's lords ban- nermen, in a drafty hall with a peat fire smoking in a black hearth. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Between the weed he's smoking and the weeds that just live in his idiot head...I don't know if he can even do what I'm asking. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z While the time passed I watched him eat, then, after a while, I saw that he was lying down and smoking a cigarette. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Mr. Moss was planted in his recliner, smoking and staring at the television screen. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Soon she'd be on the phone with Lydia and smoking out the window. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Five minutes later, when she reentered the drawing room in triumph, no one paid her any attention, and everything was exactly the same—tired, miserable adults sipping tea and smoking in silence. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I heard Mama sobbing every time I woke up and saw Papa smoking one cigarette after another. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z King of a smoking rock in the great salt sea, yet a king nonetheless. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z On weekends we lounged barefoot in drawstring pajamas, drinking tea and smoking Rothmans, or set out to watch cricket at Lord’s. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Leaders organized parades through the neighborhoods and meetings at union halls and in smoking rooms. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Only the state engineer was smoking and the smoke from his cigarette curled quietly in the still air. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I don't know if I'm furious that I wasted my first kiss on a smoking racist, or if I'm enraged that he won't apologize, or if I'm mad that it meant so little to him. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Also, there are gun rooms and trophy rooms, a billiard room and a smoking room, two libraries, innumerable retiring and drawing rooms, etc. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Back in East St. Louis, as the little porch fell, wood chips—ignited and smoking—exploded in the air. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I ran into him Tuesday downtown at the P&S Drugstore, where he was slouched against the front wall looking bored and smoking filterless Viceroys. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z Roger Morris lay about looking sleepy, making gruff observations about Day’s smoking habit. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I don’t know how it was where you were, but at Hailsham the guardians were really strict about smoking. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 Because of all the things she could have said right after she got out of there, she picked my smoking. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z The island was already disappearing into the rain, the skeletons of trees smoking against the sky. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z After all the investigating I did with Yolanda and after I had lit not just one but several of Vivian’s cigarettes, which made me an eyewitness to her broken promise to quit smoking. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z All seemed to be smoking, and their arms and legs curved in the breeze. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z As a kid during World War II, he’d sat in movie theaters, horrified by newsreel images of the smoking rubble of European cities that had been flattened by German bombs. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The house was gone, a smoking ruin left in its wake. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Near the fire, completely unafraid of die smoking coals, completely unfraid of Brian, a skunk was digging where he had buried the eggs. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z At five, he started smoking, picking up discarded cigarette butts while walking to kindergarten. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z He held the smoking pistol still aimed at Tenorio, but a second shot was not needed. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “The smoking lounge is in the other hall.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Her Pepperup Potion worked instantly, though it left the drinker smoking at the ears for several hours afterward. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z The bench behind Heart will be full of smoking counselors by now. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z The rich green smell of tobacco curls up into my nose, and I think of my father, smoking a pipe as he drew pictures of efrits and wights for me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z He continued smoking for perhaps an hour, and then, his pipe still lit, he died. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And he was smoking, another new habit, which he’d picked up from the guys Laila spotted him hanging around with these days. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Techniques for drying, smoking and freezing food also made it possible to stay put for longer periods. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The logo was a cartoon of this giant bodybuilding bulldog wearing wraparound sunglasses and smoking a cigar and flexing his muscles. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z And behold! there lay his weapon, but the blade was smoking like a dry branch that has been thrust in a fire; and as he watched it, it writhed and withered and was consumed. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z They went on smoking the pipe for a while as the sun began to set. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She was smoking a cigarette of her own as she waited to be given further instruction. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Gently, carefully, she peels scorched and smoking cloth from my raw skin. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z He stopped to adjust the lamp’s wick, which was smoking. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z They passed only one guard, leaning on the wall in a side street and smoking. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z At age seven I’d taken this statement literally, but the headmistress in the picture was smoking a pipe, and her name was Peregrine, a kind of hawk. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z It was a bewitching moment: a gorgeous train rocketing through the winter landscape carrying five of history’s greatest architects, all in the same car, gossiping, joking, drinking, smoking. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z After a bit they relaxed and leaned against the wall, smoking. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Another flash of lightning, and through the smoking hole in the roof I saw the tree she meant: a huge, White House Christmas tree-sized pine at the crest of the nearest hill. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The dragon twisted violently in the air, wounds smoking, the girl clinging to his back. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The smoking, bloodied bodies of over a dozen recently slain Sixer avatars lay scattered on the stone floor around them, slowly fading out of existence. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z 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 Every time I went in, I saw Papa sitting on the floor, surrounded by men, talking, laughing, eating, and smoking. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z 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 I also found on Google the next day that Popocatepetl is really a volcano, and the name is literally Nahuatl for “smoking mountain.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Ged struck at it again with his heavy, smoking staff, beating it off, but it came again and he struck again, and then dropped the staff that blazed and smoldered, burning his hand. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z “It’s only the changeover,” said Millard with a shrug of his smoking jacket. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Later we walk home, glancing back to see the great carloads of slag being dumped, red hot and smoking, into the ravine that skirts the steel mill. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z If fifteen-year-old me had been caught smoking pot and these proposed policies were in place, I would have been shipped away. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Going up to Phil Resch—who stood off to one side vigorously smoking a small gray cigar—he said to him, “I hope to god you do test out as an android.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z He trailed away, sat smoking for some moments, an expression of frustration and vague irritation on his face. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Grampa sitting in his chair smoking a cigar and reading the paper. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z 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 "Blood of my blood," he murmured, pushing his face to the smoking earth. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z 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 I hurried down the stairs and was in time to see the gentlemen proceeding into the smoking room. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z I watched it hit the ground and roll a little, still smoking. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Ron had pierced the glass in both windows: Riddle’s eyes were gone, and the stained silk lining of the locket was smoking slightly. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z However, it might have to be sent to someplace like Milwaukee or Chicago or some other city whose name Ignatius associated with efficient repair shops and permanently smoking factories. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Joe had been at the Three Jolly Bargemen, smoking his pipe, from a quarter after eight o’clock to a quarter before ten. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z She cleared away the smoking things, then drew back the cotton bedspread from the bed she had been sitting on, took off her slippers, and got into the bed. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Then Sam saw that he was in a long cave or tunnel that bored into the Mountain’s smoking cone. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The waitress came over and asked if we wanted anything else and Bianca wanted another soda and Kicky asked if smoking was allowed. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z They flew over the busy railway station where the Soviet troops bound for Kursk were gathering, surrounded by a mess of smoking bomb craters in the dirty snow. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z A few more women are outside smoking now. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Two men at the table next me were talking and smoking. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Standing over the tables and smoking a cigarette, she watched her customers eat. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Archibald Yronwood had been cradling his prince’s scorched and smoking body when the Brazen Beasts had found him, as his burned hands could testify. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Black blood was flowing from the wound where the spear had pierced him, smoking where it dripped onto the scorched sands. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z For my father: no smoking in the house. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z I saw Marge smoking a cigarette in the car park but choose not to mention it. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z The smoking circle of metal fell to the floor with a heavy metallic boom that made me jump in my chair. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The lazily turning ceiling fans did little to cool the heavy air, and several people around us were smoking, but we hardly noticed. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 He was almost eighteen and no one minded that he’d been smoking for years anywhere he wanted to in the house or out in the fields with Daddy. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z He held a stick of wood in one hand and the end of the stick was charred and smoking. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z He is particularly mute when he and Moushumi get together for dinners with groups of her French friends, drinking Pernods and feasting on couscous or choucroute, smoking and arguing around paper-covered tables. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z No matter what Joey said, I wasn’t ever going to be able to stop thinking of Megan Renshaw as smoking hot, and in some ways she was more accessible to me than Annie. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z When I was fourteen, I started smoking cigarettes. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Moving away, the men found things to do with themselves, some smoking, some opening up cans of C rations, a few just standing in the rain. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z A few hundred of us watch the barracks burn until they are just pits of smoking ground. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I didn’t like being around people smoking but I didn’t mind it some of the time. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z Then you get your meds and then there’s a smoking break, and then maybe you have fifteen minutes to yourself before there’s some kind of activity. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Celyn and Naomi ran to the smoking doorway, only to be cut down by black arrows. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z He misses being in his suite in Farnam, smoking one of Brandon’s cigarettes, listening to music with Jonathan, learning how to tell the classical composers apart. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z A few customers had left, the rest were smoking their pipes and enjoying their conversation. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “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 He’s upstairs sitting by the fire, smoking a cigarette, reading The Irish Press, which he loves because it’s De Valera’s paper and he thinks De Valera is the greatest man in the world. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “The guys were smoking pot and drinking beer,” said Scruggs, “laughing and tossing hand grenades into a river.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z They sat in the afternoon, smoking, digesting, considering, and now and then having a delicate drink from the jug. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Gupta, a balding, plump man smoking a fat cigar, was shouting at a foreman. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z Al Ulbrickson’s “no smoking, no drinking, no chewing, no cussing” dictum always rang like a bell in the backs of their minds. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Amanda had resumed her compulsive smoking; her hands shook and her gaze wandered. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 She stood and gazed over the smoking field. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z His blood was smoking too, where it dripped upon the ground. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Do you mind me smoking, or do you mind my smoking*. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The first soldier was at the wheel, smoking dried leaves rolled in paper and the smoke was pungent and the drive took so long that Ugwu could no longer hold his urge to urinate. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Kemmler’s head started smoking and his clothes began to catch on fire. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There was nothing left of them but weapons in the sand and piles of smoking, empty uniforms. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z He had a tall tankard in front of him, and was smoking a long-stemmed pipe curiously carved. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Just smoking on his corncob pipe and looking kind of wistful. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z “You look like smoking dead people. That is good!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z On the sign was a picture of an Indian smoking a pipe. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Pudgy grim smoking women played bingo in a closed-off bit where a spangle-jacketed man calls out numbers and smiles like a bee. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z "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 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 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 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 “People are down there hanging out all the time, smoking drugs, fooling around, whatever else. They sleep in their cars.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Sure enough, Old Tallow sat upon it smoking her pipe. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z He felt no regret as the image of the smoking furnace and the white pieces of bone came back to him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z He would finish smoking it after work, if he could keep the tobacco in it. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z She’d brought in a mess of fish and descaled them, rinsing them with freshwater and placing them in a barrel for smoking. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z How often had I seen Miss Lilian sitting on that bench, smoking, drinking a glass of wine, her mouth drawn down with disapproval? The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z He was smoking with two other soldiers on the steps. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Near the barn, Shmuel and the other men stood smoking and laughing at one joke after another. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Officer Trixie walks back to the cell house door and stands stiff and straight, not smoking now. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z His signature was not the smoking six-shooter; instead, like Sherlock Holmes, he relied upon the startling powers of reason and deduction, the ability to observe what the Watsons of the world merely saw. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Otis paused to pull his poker from the flames and thrust it smoking through the center of the sumac spill he held. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z And then somehow, the Colonel talked me into paying five dollars for a pack of Marlboro Lights I had no intention of ever smoking. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z 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 A man in a blue jacket emblazoned with the store logo stood in the doorway, smoking. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z It stood near the smoking ruins of Montag's house and the men brought his discarded flame-thrower to it and put it down under the muzzle of the Hound. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Golan came howling back toward me, his hair smoking and one arm covering his face. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z He was, I couldn’t help but notice, smoking a cigarette. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z I walk back toward the bedroom, bag still in my hand, and someone—the smoking doctor, I think—shouts words that include “schnell.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z He stood under the trellised porch, quietly smoking his pipe, and watched them for a while. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Bodies were taken out of the smoking ruins. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z "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 When he was not socializing or sleeping, he lay on his cot smoking or chewing gum and reading sports magazines or paperback thrillers. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z I almost had him convinced that smoking was an infantile, destructive activity when he pointed out a picture of Freud smoking a cigar on the book’s cover. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z He said that she’s back to smoking to soothe her nerves.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s the whatchamacallit—you know, the . . . the thing, it’s a chemistry term, when you put something into a rest tube that starts everything else in to bubbling and smoking—” “A catalyst.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 She took up smoking again in the psychiatric hospital. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z In a little clearing outside the museum, an American Indian person was sitting on a tree stump smoking a long peace pipe. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z People were always walking through the cemetery, smoking and leaving their leftover cigs on the ground and sometimes even leaving them on the gravestones along with flowers, pictures, notes, bottles, and candles. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z Then I fanned hell out of the air, to get the smoke out--I shouldn't even have been smoking, for God's sake. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z “Well, that’s done at last,” he remarked with a final nod at the smoking embers. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z “A bird drooled on me? What are you smoking?” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z 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 "Then don't let her go on a long journey this summer. She's not yet strong enough. And stop her smoking those vile black cigars." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z 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 But the men were smoking over there, so the woods seemed like a better escape. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Sitting on the large stone that marked this spot was a thin, white-haired man in a cloth cap, smoking his pipe. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z She rustled in the tatters of her dress, groped for her smoking pipe, then remembered she was out of tobacco and let her hands splay restlessly in her lap. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z The beam struck the ground directly in front of us, then cut a deep smoking furrow in the earth as it continued to sweep forward, vaporizing every avatar and ship in its path. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I stopped drinking and smoking, went to all of my appointments, ate right, took my vitamins, the whole nine. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Mam is by the fire smoking a Woodbine, my brothers upstairs in the bed. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I remember I was smoking out with my homies when the cops rolled up. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z After his first heart attack, in 2000, he quit smoking; but once he was feeling better, he stopped taking several medications, drifted back to red meat and fried foods, and let his exercise program slip. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “You know the story. Where the kid starts smoking after his mother gets rolled under by the paving machine? All those images of tar? All that social alienation?” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Gussie was indeed a fearful sight nursing that way and he looked not unlike a man with his foot on a bar rail, smoking a fat pale cigar. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the cousin laughed coarsely and he said to Lotus, who sat there smoking her water pipe, “These town women are too finicking, are they not, Old Mistress?” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z “Where did you find him?” said a boy smoking a cigarette. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z I don’t remember what he smelled like, but probably cologne to cover the smoking smell. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z After he lost Beth, he took himself out of retirement and took up smoking again. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z He wouldn’t have kept smoking if my mother had been there, although he didn’t always pay attention to my mother. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Burned, Victarion thought, like a man who has been roasted in the flames until his flesh chars and crisps and falls smoking from his bones. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He’s standing on the ground in front of the open door, smoking a ready-made. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z "You're not supposed to be smoking," my classmates would tell me. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z He lit a cigarette, one of the unfiltered Pakistani cigarettes he and Baba were always smoking. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I see her at lunch sometimes, smoking between Patrick and Sam. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z Then she saw her husband sitting over there in the corner with his long bony legs all crossed up smoking his pipe. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z They were smoking cigars and watching the world like it was TV “That’s so weird to think about,” I said. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z A tall, thin man smoking a cigarette approached us. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z 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 He rode slowly along the smoking line, looking at the faces. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I couldn’t make out much else of his expression from the distance, but there were men sitting all around him, lounging about and smoking. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z There were three cars surrounding our smoking, useless hunk of metal. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z He sat across the table, smoking cigarette after cigarette with his dark blue eyes fastened on mine. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z 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 By sunrise everyone in town was tight-packed about the smoking black pile. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z We certainly expressed enthusiasm for our mother's hobbies, from smoking and napping to the writings of Sidney Sheldon. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z 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 He was carrying a goblet, which was smoking faintly, and stopped at the sight of Harry, his black eyes narrowing. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z A few personnel were casual, talking idly against a Humvee, smoking. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z It snuffed, grunted, and took another step toward the smoking bag of resin. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z They’re all dressed in red and smoking something that looks like cigarettes, but I know better. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Johnny Cakes was sitting by himself at a little table outside, smoking a cigarette. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z He was no longer smoking, thankfully, though he’d often chew a piece of nicotine gum. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z 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 It was just a woman—a woman smoking a pipe. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z And he was still thoughtful that night at the windowsill, his head on a cushion, feet propped up on his mother’s sofa, smoking in the dark. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z I dragged the duffel, now sizzling and smoking, toward the jungle line. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z ‘I read some interesting figures yesterday. If everyone in Britain gave up smoking, the National Health Service would save—’ ‘Ted!’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 He softly pushed the book over to me, as Provis stood smoking with his eyes on the fire, and I read in it:— Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z The men were smoking their hookahs and trading stories from the battlefield. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I did know that I wasn't going to get anything done by smoking hash and sitting in the lobby of the Chelsea, no matter how cool it was to do so. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z They leaned their backs against the redbrick wall of a building, smoking, their cigarettes slanting white across their black chins. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “I know—they were smoking, but I wasn’t. My class is so boring, and I just wanted to shoot the ball around. That’s it, I promise.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Mostly just sitting by the side of the road with someone’s head and arms sticking out the top, smoking, and holding on to a gun. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1989, smoking was more prevalent than it is now, more embedded in everyday life. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The bronze ball was smoking at his feet. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Well, you’re never going to believe this, but Luke mixed his junk together and it started smoking. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z The school’s policy, in order to discourage smoking, was to make these rooms as depressing as possible. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Salvador threaded his way among the trucks with Lupita following him until they found Bartolo smoking at the rear of a large green truck with board sides. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z The tape of Nixon and his staff plotting to use the CIA to block the FBI’s investigation of the Watergate break-in proved to be the smoking gun prosecutors were looking for. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z When the elf and the goblin looked up again, all that was left of the summit where the two kings had met was a spherical hole, smoking. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z I went to the kitchen and he was sitting there with his tea, smoking and reading the Korean-language newspaper. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Jimmie Reeves and Richard Campbell show in their research how the media imagery surrounding cocaine changed as the practice of smoking cocaine came to be associated with poor blacks. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z 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 was sprinkling water on them from an empty pop bottle and smoking a cigarette. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Lee came out with a platter of fried chicken, a bowl of smoking boiled potatoes, and a deep dish of pickled beets, all carried on a pastry board. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z His mouth was twisted in anguish, his hair was burnt, and his face was black and smoking where the molten gold had run down across his brow and cheeks and into his eyes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He felt that black shapes were advancing to smother him; but when he sat up he saw nothing but the back of Strider sitting hunched up, smoking his pipe, and watching. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z A little while later they came out smoking cigars, talking contentedly in the mellow lower register of the German language. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I tried to explain to him how dangerous it was, particularly smoking, and even went to the trouble of finding a case history similar to his in a book by Sigmund Freud. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z Lane sat rather slouched in his chair, smoking, his eyes narrowed attentively at Franny’s face. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Then she drove off in the direction of McDougald Terrace, where a small knot of men waited, smoking cigarettes and talking in hushed voices. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Lombard and Blore were over to the left, smoking but not talking. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z Bunny was already there and was smoking a cigarette. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z His number one priority was smoking his next cigarette. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z On the cover was a picture of a man lying on a couch, knees crossed, one foot dangling in the air and smoking a cigarette which made a big smoke ring over his head. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Hazel tried to collect her thoughts, stall for time, but it was difficult while staring down the smoking barrels of those flintlocks. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z In the corner, a person was smoking, the gold cherry pulsing like a lightning bug. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z From somewhere, as in a dream, I heard a scream and looked back just as the big smoking engine roared around a bend. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Fat flies rise from stinking holes where dead bodies rot beneath smoking ruins. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Cowled in their blankets against the cold and their breath smoking, shuffling through the black and silky drifts. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Apart from inmates smoking in their cells, smoking was generally forbidden indoors. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 “And smoking is a terrible habit that not only eats your lungs away, it gives you those spidery lip wrinkles before your time, which Botox will not fix.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Pudgy grim smoking men played this horse-racing game where you bet real money on plastic horses that move round a track. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Jason charged at Percy, who was now on his back, his clothes smoking from the lightning blast. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The gentlemen are liable to retire to the smoking room at any moment.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z We were sitting on the grass after a rounders match and Miss Lucy had been giving us a typical talk on smoking when Marge suddenly asked if Miss Lucy had herself ever had a cigarette. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z This being shutting-up time, there were few vans there now, but a knot of youths stood smoking and talking by the central gate opposite the high stone wall of St. Michael’s College. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “What? Didn’t you hear me tell Imam Malik I wasn’t smoking?” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z 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 One morning before the wood pewees were up, I was smoking a mess of fish I had caught in the stream. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z They ran down the field, splashed across the river, and spread out over the smoking bank. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Everybody was sitting on sleeping bags, Alaska smoking with flagrant disregard for the overwhelming flammability of the structure, when the Colonel pulled out a single piece of computer paper and read from it. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z No amount of natural wonders, of rigid cliffs and belching waters, of smoking springs could even engage my attention while that pandemonium went on. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Bono and his companions sit only four feet away, smoking pipes and murmuring. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z They came on slowly around the last bend, a long blue smoking snake, spiked with guns and flags. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z This “excellent” so-called “very professional” letter said nothing at all about Vivian’s smoking. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I was hoping there would be some kind of smoking gun. But it didn’t exist.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Another important factor in physical conditioning is smoking. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z We walk into the living room, and the smoking doctor is examining the hallway with the ladder. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Unwittingly, he had discovered deep within himself a fertile aptitude for smoking with a cigarette holder. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z 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 “He was sitting smoking in the bus shack, last Angela Bullock heard.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Her father hunches over his slanted ink-stained table by the window, sketching, smoking, listening to the Voice of America. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He stopped smoking after he and my mom got married. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I just wish he and Lorena would stop drinking and smoking weed all the time. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Aborigines did acquire from the Macassans some loan words, some ceremonies, and the practices of using dugout sailing canoes and smoking tobacco in pipes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Carlyle hurries out and returns in seconds with a branding iron, red-hot and smoking, as if it had been waiting just outside. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Piper yelped and dropped the dagger, which was now smoking and sparking. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z What will the neighbors think of our smoking chimney? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z I also told him that my father had confirmed that any au pair that was placed by them must be a nonsmoker or be willing to stop smoking. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I walked over to where Mr. Benson sat in one of the porch chairs, smoking his pipe. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Papa is pacing the sitting room, chewing on his pipe more than smoking it. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Uncle Willie sat in the twilight on the front porch mumbling or maybe singing, and smoking a ready-made. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The rabbit made one last smoking effort and came to a dust-explosive shuddering stop directly beneath the mare.... This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z When the hymn was over, the waiters brought coffee and Bull rapped with his gavel once again and announced, “The smoking lamp is lighted.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 Looking rather pleased with himself, Ron handed the slightly smoking handkerchief to Hermione. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z As Arisue’s plane circled above what appeared to be a smoking, ash-gray desert, the pilot pointed down. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Using an oven mitt, he was gripping the plate of smoking grapes. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z What remained was a skeletal wreck of exposed beams and smoking rubble. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z They return to their smoking as if it’s serious business. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z She needed to stop smoking, take her medications, walk for exercise, come back in a month. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Slughorn was wearing a tasseled velvet hat to match his smoking jacket. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z 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 In the corner of a first-class smoking carriage, Mr. Justice Wargrave, lately retired from the bench, puffed at a cigar and ran an interested eye through the political news in The Times. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z We sat in a circle around the trays of fries, and Alaska taught class, smoking while she ate. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z From a smoking tower, a great stone beast took wing, breathing shadow fire. . . . mother of dragons, slayer of hes . A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The boomer ethos in which I’d raised my own daughter was obsessively protective, perpetually on guard against everything from lead paint and genetically engineered food to helmetless bike-riding, drinking, smoking, sex, and possible learning disabilities. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Is it supposed to be smoking like that?” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z Even though I still had one evening left of washing dishes in the cafeteria to work off my smoking conviction, we didn’t much fear the Eagle. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z I set it down and looked at her—oblivious, smoking a cigarette, scarcely two feet away. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z At this, his cohorts, who were smoking several bottles of glue, laughed. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z It was almost dusk, the wind had dropped, and I saw old men squatting in the dirt, Papa and some of his cronies, muttering and smoking their cigarettes. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘She’ll reduce the Acropolis to a smoking crater. Athens - your city - will be utterly destroyed, your people along with it. You believe me, don’t you?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The fire had been successfully doused on the left side of the house, but what remained was charred and smoking—the rafters glowing like skeletons in the night sky. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z It was a smokehouse, where hams were smoking over a slow hickory fire. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He had two girls on the seat with him and was sitting back in the corner and smoking. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z He paced the house, smoking, peering out the window, cleaning his gun, loading and loading it again. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z They take their joints partway up a hill to a billiard hall, where they sit outside smoking and listening to the music that drifts through the open doors. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Pax slept fitfully through the afternoon, plagued by dreams in which his boy was tangled in smoking wires. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z But what none of us saw coming was that when he stopped smoking weed he just replaced it with alcohol. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Hiding out in our apartment, sleeping on an improvised bed like the draft dodgers, a refugee, a displaced person, smoking up the kitchen with Jon wondering who the hell she is and why she’s there. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She was smoking a cigarette, taking long, angry drags. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z People were sitting in groups on oversized floor pillows and on cane chairs turned backward, smoking grass and drinking tallneck beers. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z So far so good with smoking, I thought. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She found a park bench where she had once been accustomed to reading and smoking. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z 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 The effects of smoking on the body are becoming well known, but the effects of space flight were largely unknown in 1965. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z What a way to get out of smoking. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Inside the dugout were the three drivers sitting against the wall, smoking. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Armelio is playing solitaire in the back of the hall, by the smoking lounge. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z “I noticed you talking with Humboldt Koper outside the smoking lounge last night.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z 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 It’s entirely possible my dad wasn’t as offended that I was smoking pot as he was that I wasn’t smoking it with him. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z This part of the forest has just been burned a few days before and the ground is still hot and smoking. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When the lightning stopped, the First and Second Cohorts were facing one surprised-looking giant and several hundred smoking piles of ash. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z 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 Eagerly they queried Mother, drinking tea and smoking cigarettes. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z Because work is what you do for others; smoking is what you do for yourself. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “They may have no past,” he said, smoking and looking up at the ceiling. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Mariam even spotted one smoking behind the wheel of a car. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z His parents had him try other remedies of the time—such as smoking cigars and drinking black coffee—but nothing helped. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z 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 Colonel Arbuthnot was sitting in a corner smoking a pipe and reading a magazine. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Another time I got my mother to bring home a pamphlet about smoking in which they showed lungs damaged from tobacco poisons. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z 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 “But I’m afraid if I stop smoking I’ll start gaining a lot of weight.” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z Camera One, not there at first but getting it now, the long shot, nailing her as her hands came off the chair arms, fingers spread wide, you could almost see her fingertips smoking... Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z A heap of smoking rubber tires polluted the air. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z |
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