The 21 occurrences of coffin nail
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At the counter of the Greek Confectionery Parlor, while they ate dreadful messes of decayed bananas, acid cherries, whipped cream, and gelatinous ice-cream, they screamed to one another, "Hey, lemme 'lone," "Quit dog-gone you, looka what you went and done, you almost spilled my glass swater," "Like hell I did," "Hey, gol darn your hide, don't you go sticking your coffin nail in my i-scream," "Oh you Batty, how juh like dancing with Tillie McGuire, last night?
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I can't look at it practically however: that will come, I suppose, like grey hair or coffin nails.
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At his belt the coffin nails, and the hammer in his hands.
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Say, sport, have you got a coffin nail on you?"
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You're forever rolling a coffin nail."
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They had skulked across the back pasture, and were nearing the stone wall that separated Mr. Meadow's corn-field from the road; and here, screened by the wall on one side and by corn on the other, they intended to roll the little "coffin nails," and smoke them unseen.
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At the time when he threw his remaining "coffin nails" in the cook's fire he really did "swear off," and he afterwards was able to refrain from the use of tobacco in any form.
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Say, sport, have you got a coffin nail on you?"
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Although it was quite evident to others that these were coffin nails, still St. Eloi insisted upon regarding his discovery as genuine, and they began diligently to dismember the remains for distribution among the churches.
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"There's too much boozin' and smokin' of them coffin nails goin' on in this college.
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Look at the coffin nail gainin'; but I do believe the tub will win out afther all, I do that."
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"It wer the sight o' thet durned nigger thaar, a-sottin' an playin' his banjo--him ez we all thought ez ded ez a coffin nail, an' buried fathoms below the sea, an' which all on us hed b'leeved ter hev haunted the shep fur the hull v'y'ge.
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Until that chill, rainy November day when the tidings broke to the world in four-inch banner heads: COFFIN NAILS LID ON COMMON COLD "No More Coughin'" States Co-Finder of Cure SNIFFLES SNIPED: SINGLE SHOT TO SAVE SNEEZERS In medical circles it was called the Coffin Multicentric Upper Respiratory Virus-Inhibiting Vaccine; but the papers could never stand for such high-sounding names, and called it, simply, "The Coffin Cure."
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The cigarette (known as the Demon Cigarette, the Filthy Weed, and the Coffin Nail) had been a dreadful struggle.
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"Have a coffin nail?" said Snorky, feeling that a bold stroke was necessary to restore the balance.
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The insects are awake all night, and the little workman bird sits on a tree close by you and drives coffin nails without number.
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Other amulets in the Washington exhibit," he added, "are the patella of a sheep and a ring made out of a coffin nail (dug out of a graveyard) for cramps and epilepsy, a peony root to be carried in the pocket against insanity, and rare and precious stones for all and sundry diseases."
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I once drove in coffin nails to that tune in Verona.
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"I thought we had shown him the folly of smoking coffin nails long ago."
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"As to master fox, he was making off first of anybody, leaving his friends in the lurch; but Grumpy-growly saw him, and catching him by the ear, made him confess all the mischief he had been about that morning; and as soon as he had finished, Grumpy-growly gave him one good hug, which killed him as dead as a coffin nail.