He drinks three "large darks," one after another, and smokes the sergeant's cheroots.
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Not lumpia Shanghai, spring rolls as skinny as cheroots, the ground pork inside flecked with deliquescing fat.
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Robert tells me that a sergeant from the unit that he served in, now a bookkeeper in Basel, had sent him cheroots for Christmas.
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Twante remains a place where many men in sarongs and bamboo pith helmets smoke cheroots and women balance baskets of vegetables on their heads.
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Preparation of cheroots, Inle Lake, Burma. Cheroots sold in the market at Nyaungshwe, Burma. Cheroots are traditional in Burma and India, and consequently were popular among the British during the days of the British Empire. They are often associated with Burma in literature: Apparently, cheroot smoking was also associated with resistance against tropical disease in India.
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Verrier Elwin wrote in a foreword (1957) to Leaves from the Jungle: Life in a Gond Village, Although a cheroot is defined as cylindrical, home-rolled cheroots in Burma are sometimes conical.
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Hand said that he was "Church of England", but Philip asked: "Are you sure?" Hand was one of the few bishops of the modern world who had walked through equatorial jungle and climbed mountains to find people who had never before had contact with the outside world. In pursuit of publicity to gain support for his diocese, he employed a press officer, Susan Young, who smoked cheroots and flew a plane.
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The kenduri items usually consist of yellow (saffron) rice, lamb or chicken curries, vegetables, pisang rastali (bananas), young coconuts, rose syrup, cheroots (local cigars) and local fruits. Visitors are also asked to show respect when inside or around a shrine. Datuks and keramats are seen as an alternative power to help in spiritual healing and granting protection. Mediums (bomohs) are engaged to enable communication between worshippers with the spirits.
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But there were many problems – sometimes there was no water supply, so they wouldn't let us take a bath and we could hardly even get water to drink. There were latrines in 2 places – outside of the room for the daytime, and in the room at night. The latrines always had guards, and to use them you had to bribe the guard with 2 cheroots. The latrine was just a bucket, with no water.
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Handmade goods for local use and trading are another source of commerce. Typical products include tools, carvings and other ornamental objects, textiles, and cheroots. A local market serves most common shopping needs and is held daily but the location of the event rotates through five different sites around the lake area, thus each of them hosting an itinerant market every fifth day. When held on the lake itself, trading is conducted from small boats.
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The Toscano production is characterized by calmness, purity and persistence of flavor. Toscano Garibaldi uses Kentucky leaves with higher sugar content in its production and its aroma tastes sweet, gentle and vigorous, suitable for beginner smokers.F. Franchi, The Toscano In A Wineglass, Giunti, 2003 Traditionally, they are not smoked as a whole, but cut in the middle. They are considered dry cigars or cheroots which means they do not have to be stored in a humidor.
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Cheroot-making leaves or cheroot leaves The cheroot is a filterless cylindrical cigar with both ends clipped during manufacture. Since cheroots do not taper, they are inexpensive to roll mechanically, and their low cost makes them popular. The word cheroot probably comes via Portuguese charuto, originally from Tamil curuttu/churuttu/shuruttu (சுருட்டு), roll of tobacco. This word could have been absorbed into the French language from Tamil during the 18th century, when the French were trying to stamp their presence in South India.
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The tomb is located near Asman Garh Palace on top of a hillock at Tirumala Hills, Malakpet, about 3 km from the Oliphant Bridge (currently known as Chaderghat Bridge), in East Hyderabad. Until about 1940, people would visit his tomb on the anniversary of his death, taking incense and other offerings to him. The Nizams would send to his tomb on 25 March every year, a box of cheroots and a bottle of beer. His grave had become like a shrine.
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When Trace Jordan's brother is murdered and several of their horses stolen, Trace sees by the tracks that three men are involved. One man wears Mexican spurs, one walks with a limp, and one smokes cheroots. Upon arriving in the town of Esperanza, Trace sees a destroyed sheriff's office and discovers the only law in Esperanza is Joe Sutton. He also discovers that the stolen horses have been rebranded with the Sutton brand, and their riders who match the description of their tracks work for Sutton.
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Cohiba Mini and Dannemann Moods cigarillos A cigarillo is a machine-made cigar that is shorter and narrower than a traditional cigar but larger than little cigars, filtered cigars, and cigarettes, thus similar in size and composition to small panatela sized cigars, cheroots, and traditional blunts. Cigarillos are usually not filtered, although some have plastic or wood tips, and unlike other cigars, some are inhaled when used. Cigarillos are sold in varying quantities: singles, two- packs, three-packs, and five-packs. Cigarillos are very inexpensive: in the United States, usually sold for less than a dollar.
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Paan vendor at Bogyoke Market in Yangon, Myanmar Kwun-ya ( [kóːn.jà]) is the word for paan in Myanmar, formerly Burma, where the most common configuration for chewing is a betel vine leaf (Piper betel), areca nut (from Areca catechu), slaked lime (calcium hydroxide) and some aroma, although many betel chewers also use tobacco. Betel chewing has very long tradition in Burma, having been practised since before the beginning of recorded history. Until the 1960s, both men and women loved it and every household used to have a special lacquerware box for paan, called kun-it (), which would be offered to any visitor together with cheroots to smoke and green tea to drink.
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Born into an old established Mandalay family that traded in tobacco and manufactured cheroots, Amar was the fourth in a family of twelve, of whom only six survived to adulthood. She was educated at the American Baptist Mission School and subsequently the National High School under the headmaster Abdul Razak who later became the Education Minister in Aung San's cabinet and was assassinated with him and others in July 1947. She read science at the Mandalay Intermediate College and went on to Rangoon University for a bachelor's degree. Her first notable work was a translation of Trials in Burma by Maurice Collis in 1938, and by that time she was already published in the university's Owei (, Peacock's Call) magazine, and also Kyipwa Yay (, Progress) magazine, run by her future husband U Hla, under her own name as well as the pen names Mya Myint Zu and Khin La Win.
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A stumpy Jewish > immigrant from the London ghetto, Sam Gompers was shaped by the world of his > father, who rolled rich cheroots and aromatic panatelas in cigar-making > lofts on New York's Lower East Side... the rollers [that young Gompers > joined] were educated men, their craft an ancient skill, their union like > that of the medieval guilds, designed as much to protect their hard-won turf > from less-skilled workers as to wrest concessions from their employers. Not > surprisingly, then, the AFL, which Gompers founded in 1886, was sometimes > regarded as a league of petit-bourgeois tradesmen seeking to protect their > status from challenges by the industrialized masses... Gompers and his > lieutenants, with their silk hats and waistcoats, their lifelong habit of > philosophical disputation over glasses of steaming tea, often looked like a > band of privileged elitists.Anthony Lukas, Big Trouble, 1997, pages 209-210. Gompers had settled upon the belief that "pure-and-simple unionism" would serve working people well.
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