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Updated: June 7, 2025
When he entered my room he was ever willing to tell us what he thought of editors, but his meerschaum with the cherry-wood stem gradually drove all passion from his breast, and instead of upbraiding more successful men than himself, he then lazily scribbled letters to them on my wall-paper.
But 'twas a very different Pipe to what we are in the habit of seeing in England having a Bowl of fine Red Clay encrusted with Gems, a long straight tube of Cherry-wood, and a Mouthpiece of Amber studded with Precious Stones.
"Well, I've known her ever since she was as long as that cherry-wood pipe, and I don't like to see her taking risks. And it is a risk. He looks beastly. And he has a beastly temper, a venomous temper. You remember his row with Long Norton?" "No; you always forget that I am a freshman." "Ah, it was last winter. Of course. Well, you know the towpath along by the river.
Lucien was inspired with the bold idea of deceiving that formidable functionary. He settled his hat on his head, and walked into the editor's office as if he were quite at home. Looking eagerly about him, he beheld a round table covered with a green cloth, and half-a-dozen cherry-wood chairs, newly reseated with straw.
The Indian possesses great taste, which is displayed in the carving of his paddles, in the shape of his canoes, in the elegance and symmetry of his bows, in the cut of his leggings and moccasins, the sheath of his hunting-knife, and in all the little ornaments in which he delights. It is almost impossible for a settler to imitate to perfection an Indian's cherry-wood paddle.
There was a library for my boy Ned, a smoking-room in cherry-wood, a billiard-room in black walnut, a dining-room in oak and crimson in brief, the beau-ideal of a den for a couple of bachelors. By Jove! it was like a club-house the only model for a home of which poor old Lynde had any conception.
You might tell me where I can sell it' and with that he brings out this little carved cherry-wood box. 'See, says he, 'it is the kind of Pompadour that looks like decorated Gothic. 'Yes, I told him, 'the box is pretty; the box might suit me; but as for the fan, Monistrol, I have no Mme.
He had forgotten all about it until there came to him the idea of drinking better whisky than did other people. John had sold a yoke of oxen and a Blackhawk colt, and two hundred dollars in gold were resting heavily in his little cherry-wood desk in the farm-house sitting-room.
A pair of calico curtains hung from the brass window rods, and on each side of the window was a small bookcase in cherry-wood, such as every one knows who has stared into the shop windows of the Quartier Latin, and in which we kept the few books necessary for our studies. The ink in the inkstand was always in the state of lava congealed in the crater of a volcano.
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