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  • I exclaimed, blowing the cigar-ash off my pyjamas, and wondering to myself how I could have been so absorbed in his reading aloud as to have let my half-smoked havannah tumble on to the floor.

    Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 101, July 11, 1891 Various

  • Hie thee home, my gallant steed (an eighteenpenny fare in a hansom), and let me resume the costume of private life, trifle with a cutlet, drain the goblet and smoke the mild havannah.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, July 18, 1891 Various

  • As the plan was gradually unfolded, however, the old soldier began to puff harder at his cigar until a continuous thick grey cloud rose up from him, through which the lurid tip of the havannah shone like a murky meteor.

    The Firm of Girdlestone Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • There on one side of the Channel he shows the dejected old lion of Malines gnawing his tobaccoless clay pipe, and then on the other the noble beast stalking along jauntily with tail erect and havannah alight.

    In Bohemia with Du Maurier The First Of A Series Of Reminiscences Felix Moscheles 1875

  • Pleasant hours those and gemüthliche, as the Germans say; how different the after-dinner clay pipe or cheap weed of those times to the post-prandial havannah we now complacently whiff at our friend's Mæcenas 'hospitable table!

    In Bohemia with Du Maurier The First Of A Series Of Reminiscences Felix Moscheles 1875

  • Wilfrid did not contemplate his havannah with less favour.

    Sandra Belloni — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868

  • Wilfrid did not contemplate his havannah with less favour.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • Wilfrid did not contemplate his havannah with less favour.

    Sandra Belloni — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • British havannah a mirage of a canvas city, transparent with light, floats before their excited imaginations.

    The Civil War in America 1861

  • Before we dilate upon the delicious peculiarities of the exhibition, we deem it absolutely a matter of justice to the noble-hearted patriot who, imitative of the Greeks and Athenians of old, who gave the porticoes of their public buildings, and other convenient spots, for the display of their artists 'productions, has most generously appropriated the chief space of his shop front to the use and advantage of the painter, and has thus set a bright example to the high-minded havannah merchants and contractors for cubas and c'naster, which we trust will not be suffered to pass unobserved by them.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 21, 1841 Various

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