"Cigarette case" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was most interested. I almost smiled when I remembered how admirably he had contrived to elude my curiosity. The only thing which I gathered from his manner was that Mr. Delora's disappearance was unexpected by him. Never mind, the end was not yet! I ordered coffee and a liqueur, and laid my cigarette case upon the table. I would wait until Louis chose to come to me once more. There were certain things which I intended ...
— The Lost Ambassador - The Search For The Missing Delora • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... Nevil, depositing Miss Charlotte on a seat while he took out his cigarette case, "I wonder if ...
— Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker • Marguerite Bryant
... his chair, feeling for his cigarette case, and the contentment of his look deepened. "You have been a child, asleep to life," he murmured complacently. "I told you you were a princess—let us say a sleeping princess waiting for the prince, like that old fairy tale of the English." ...
— The Palace of Darkened Windows • Mary Hastings Bradley
... said the man, looking eagerly at the cigarette case which was now open, and which displayed two tempting rows of fat Egyptian cigarettes reposing side ...
— A Spirit in Prison • Robert Hichens
... and taken from it a small canvas wallet, which he laid on the table in front of him. He also produced a very beautiful gold cigarette case. ...
— Kiddie the Scout • Robert Leighton
... his satin blouse a gold-and-black cigarette case. Peter accepted one of the white cylinders and struck a match. In the flare he found that Kahn Meng was studying ...
— Peter the Brazen - A Mystery Story of Modern China • George F. Worts
... out negligently for her cigarette case, lighted one and letting it droop at a rather impossible angle, supported by the lightest pressure of her lips so that the smoke crept up over her face into her lashes and her hair, folded her hands demurely in her lap and waited for her aunt ...
— Mary Wollaston • Henry Kitchell Webster
... your experience, is it?' answered her lover, with an amused smile, pulling out his cigarette case. 'Well, suppose you reward me for my accidental presence here, and ...
— Madame Midas • Fergus Hume
... latch. Next he shut the door to the kitchen hallway and fastened that, when, with a sigh of relief, he walked to the long carved oak table that flanked the window, hoisted himself on it, produced his gold cigarette case, took out a cigarette, set fire to it, snapped the case and returned ...
— Officer 666 • Barton W. Currie
... Submarine's conning-tower with a chart open on his knees, and smoked a cigarette. It was not a brand he cared about particularly, but it had been looted from the Captain's cabin of a neutral cargo steamer on the previous afternoon. A man who relies upon such methods to replenish his cigarette case cannot, of course, expect everybody's tastes to coincide ...
— The Long Trick • Lewis Anselm da Costa Ritchie
... of Girzon, received a cigarette case and lighter. He and Garnon hooked fingers and ...
— Last Enemy • Henry Beam Piper
... adjutant who was sleeping in a bed in the next room. He came out in a not very agreeable frame of mind and began to ask me who I was. I immediately told my name, showed my identification disc and engraved silver cigarette case and some cablegrams that I had just received from home. The Colonel looked up with bleary eyes and said, "Shall I put him in the guardroom?" but the adjutant had been convinced by my papers that I was innocent ...
— The Great War As I Saw It • Frederick George Scott
... Glanedale drew a cigarette case from his pocket; opened it, took out a cigarette, then, hesitating a moment, replaced it, and returned the case to his pocket, his eyes all the time on ...
— Malcolm Sage, Detective • Herbert George Jenkins
... brightly. A sofa had been drawn in front of it, and was piled with cushions. There were one or two basket-chairs, and a small square table bearing a paper-shaded lamp, and a newspaper, a "Punch," Jerry's banjo, and a cigarette case. ...
— The Odds - And Other Stories • Ethel M. Dell
... until then she will only give her ten thousand roubles and an old flat-iron, and to get that she will have to humble herself to the ground. [He feels in his pockets] Will you have a smoke? [He offers IVANOFF his cigarette case] ...
— Ivanoff - A Play • Anton Checkov
... just time for a cigarette before I take up such exhausting literary work," begged Algy, reaching for his gold cigarette case. "Have one, ...
— Uncle Sam's Boys as Sergeants - or, Handling Their First Real Commands • H. Irving Hancock
... and while she asked him how he was, her hands touched, and displaced, and replaced the little objects on the small table beside him,—the book, the glass, the flowers in the silver cup, the silver cigarette case, the things which, being quite helpless, he liked ...
— Taquisara • F. Marion Crawford
... day of the writer of a musical farce (or is it comedy?) who was most desirous that his leading character should be a perfect gentleman. During the dress rehearsal, the actor representing the part had to open his cigarette case and request another perfect gentleman to help himself. The actor drew forth his case. It caught the critical ...
— The Angel and the Author - and Others • Jerome K. Jerome
... have interested Simcox. It's odd the feelings men have at these times. Simcox says the thing he chiefly wanted to do was to tidy up. He had a kind of strong desire to pick things up and put them away somewhere. Of course he couldn't; but he did pick up one thing, a cigarette case. He showed it to me. It was one of those long-shaped, flat white metal cases which fellows carry because they hold about thirty cigarettes. Simcox says he doesn't know why he picked it up. He didn't want it in the least. He just saw it lying there on the ground and stuffed it into his pocket ...
— Our Casualty And Other Stories - 1918 • James Owen Hannay, AKA George A. Birmingham
... departure in came De Castro, who had driven up in a hansom. I certainly saw a flash of anger in his eyes as he recognised me, but it vanished like lightning, and his manner became cordiality itself. Late as it was (it was nearly twelve), he pulled out his cigarette case, and evidently intended to begin the evening. As soon as he was told that Mr. Symonds had been, he began to talk about him in a disparaging manner. Evidently his metier was, as I had surmised, that of a professional talker. Talk was ...
— Aylwin • Theodore Watts-Dunton
... as much dignity as possible, sat down in the chair. He got out his cigarette case and asked Priscilla not to start until he had ...
— Priscilla's Spies 1912 • George A. Birmingham
... answer Jill moved round the couch and sat herself down upon the satin cushions, opened her hand-bag, and finding her cigarette case lit ...
— Desert Love • Joan Conquest
... antagonistic in the hunch of his thin shoulders. His dark, biting eyes avoided them like those of a sullen child who does not want to see. But Miss Edwards appeared to be not easily depressed. She waved her hand in friendly thanks for the cigarette case which Francey tossed across to her, and, having selected her cigarette with blunt, viciously manicured fingers, poked Cosgrave ...
— The Dark House • I. A. R. Wylie
... cigarette case and stepped out through the window into the garden. But he went not as one who means to take a stroll and enjoy a smoke, rather as a man on ...
— The Convert • Elizabeth Robins
... could hear their conversation. It seemed that Leopold had no intention of starting a conversation with Meir. He went toward the window with quite a different motive, which was betrayed by his taking from his pocket a silver cigarette case. But Meir, when he saw the young man approach him, advanced a few steps. His face ...
— An Obscure Apostle - A Dramatic Story • Eliza Orzeszko
... now finished rubbing his hands, and, unbuttoning his under coat, he drew a small silver cigarette case ...
— Philip Steele of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police • James Oliver Curwood |
