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  • noun Leaf tobacco softened, sweetened, and pressed into plugs or cakes.

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Examples

  • Come, I'll trate ye to a taste o 'me cavendish, which is better than growlin' in yer hammock at the muskaities, poor things, as don't know no better. "

    The Pirate City An Algerine Tale 1859

  • How many "nigger heads" we sold that day, singly, for the purpose of allowing the miners to taste our stock before they bought largely, I have no means of knowing; but fortunately for our reputation, Smith had displayed great prudence in his bargains, and his "cavendish" and "fine cut" were at length pronounced the best that were ever brought to

    The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia William Henry Thomes 1859

  • Labels: kee thuan chye, malaysian authors, malaysian english, marshall cavendish, shirley lim, silverfish posted by bibliobibuli at 11: 16 PM

    Shirley Shines Sharon Bakar 2006

  • I am going to go finish the cavendish throw now, maybe pics later/ I will leave you with a picture of some of the old patterns

    Autumnal mists in abundance and the mog is sorting vintage patterns ambermoggie 2006

  • I haven't done much knitting til I got home but the noro cavendish blanket is almost done, tomorrow should show pictures all being well.

    Archive 2006-10-01 ambermoggie 2006

  • Knitting finished and on needles above pictures throw cavendish drying on floor roughly blocked just to stretch a little and won't rehash whyrotten pattern pics not matching finished size ok I did just grumble but what the heck.

    Knitting finished and on needles ambermoggie 2006

  • I haven't done much knitting til I got home but the noro cavendish blanket is almost done, tomorrow should show pictures all being well.

    It's Saturday night and full moon ambermoggie 2006

  • I am going to go finish the cavendish throw now, maybe pics later/ I will leave you with a picture of some of the old patterns

    Archive 2006-10-01 ambermoggie 2006

  • The brutal indifference of the rejoinder suited his humour, and, with a glance at Vickers, he took a small piece of cavendish from the pocket of his pea – jacket, and gave it to the recaptured convict.

    For the term of his natural life 2004

  • He began to dislike Shand, because he did snore so loudly, and drank so much bottled ale, and smelt so strongly of cavendish tobacco.

    John Caldigate 2004

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