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... from us the good creature he sent to make the breath of life a luxury as well as a necessity, enjoyable as well as useful. To go quit smoking, when there ain't any sufficient excuse for it!—why, my old boy, when they used to tell me I would shorten my life ten years by smoking, they little knew the devotee they were wasting their puerile words upon; they little knew how trivial and valueless I would regard ...

— Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete - The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens • Albert Bigelow Paine

... cook's was visiting a neighbour at Fordsburg. She stood on the threshold, an infant in her arms, and a three-year-old boy at her side. The explosion came. Her baby was killed outright, and the child clinging to her skirts dropped with one leg ripped entirely from the socket. The mother was not even scratched. Another woman was sewing on a sewing machine. After recovering ...

— A Woman's Part in a Revolution • Natalie Harris Hammond

... has taken my pipe! Hello, my honest Jup, I make you a present of it! Smoke away, old boy, smoke away!" ...

— The Mysterious Island • Jules Verne

... I imagine, have been keeping pace with your age long enough. About thirty years ago you'd give an old boy like myself a ...

— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VII. • Various

... officers, who had served under Jackson, were sitting near each other on their horses. Each remarked the silence of the other, and each saw that the other was in tears. "I'm not ashamed of it, Snowden!" "Nor I, old boy," replied the other, ...

— Stonewall Jackson And The American Civil War • G. F. R. Henderson

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