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It features an attractive trompe l'oeil cigarette-box cover (as the first volume did).
Connections 2010
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It features an attractive trompe l'oeil cigarette-box cover (as the first volume did).
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It features an attractive trompe l'oeil cigarette-box cover (as the first volume did).
A Different Stripe: 2008
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We then ascended to the room again, when, by upsetting the cigarette-box, I obtained a very excellent view of the floor, and was able to see quite clearly, from the traces upon the cigarette ash, that the prisoner had in our absence come out from her retreat.
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She knew every blackened banana-skin and empty cigarette-box in the gutters.
Main Street 2004
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A week ago he had invented a system of leaving his cigar-case and cigarette-box in an unused drawer at the bottom of the correspondence-file, in the outer office.
Babbit 2004
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Himself, Babbitt slipped away on Christmas afternoon to take his present, a silver cigarette-box, to Tanis.
Babbit 2004
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Selden had turned to reach for a cigarette-box on the mantelpiece.
The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987
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Selden had turned to reach for a cigarette-box on the mantelpiece.
The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987
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Selden had turned to reach for a cigarette-box on the mantelpiece.
The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987
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