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Updated: May 31, 2025
An Indian representative of the genera produces a nut which when roasted is highly relished, though dubiously known as the coffin-nail or promotion nut, but there is no reason to believe that it is specially indigestible unless eaten in immoderate quantity.
I saw that it was a boy who was smoking a cigarette like everything, yes, Tip Slavin, if you please. He discovered me at about the same second, and, say, you ought to have seen how he flipped that coffin-nail thing from his lips, and came on as bold as anything." Thad chuckled. "Huh! guess you got him dead to rights that time, Owen. Did you accuse him of being a thief?" he asked hurriedly.
I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for.
"Naw," said the other; "I gotta be goin'." "Come," insisted the host; "sit down for a few minutes at least. I was just wishing that I had someone to talk to." The other sank noiselessly into a chair. "All right, bo," he said. Jimmy proffered him his cigar-case. "No, thanks," declined the visitor. "I'd rather have a coffin-nail," which Jimmy forthwith furnished.
I don't mean to say that I know of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the country's done for.
"Yes, Billie Budd was in on this too," replied Holmes, as he carelessly lit another coffin-nail and turning around, calmly blew the smoke in the face of Thorneycroft, who had just come in; "but the old gent didn't have to tell me that. I overheard him conversing to himself about it down in your worshipful wine-cellar, where he had the cuff-button hidden under a beer-barrel.
The vein swelled blue on his flushed temples, and the lines on his face were deeply drawn. "Now, Percy, you and I are going to talk business. Put down those cards and chuck that coffin-nail into the stove. Why can't you use a man's smoke if you're going to smoke at all? I've been talking with Mr. Blodgett, and I find it's the same old story.
Carlyle and a much inferior man being coupled by some sapient review as "biographers," "Those two joined!" he exclaimed. "You can't plough with an ox and an ass." "Is the legacy to be paid immediately?" inquired somebody, apropos of a will which made some noise. "Yes, on the coffin-nail," answered he.
I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for.
I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for.
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