There was an ashtray in front of him, and a thin curl of smoke rose from a cigar in it, and coffee steamed in an ornate but battered silver cup beside it.
"Space Viking"
Henry Beam Piper
Two or three times in the afternoon a bell rings; whereupon he deposits the cigar in an ashtray with great particularity, taking care not to break the ash, and proceeds to an upstairs room, flanked with two passages.
"Eugenics and Other Evils"
G. K. Chesterton
The appearance of the servant caused the four friends to draw as many chairs about a small cherry wood table, supplied with the usual complement of bell, match-box and ashtray, and as the servant put the familiar question-"What is the order, sir?"
"With Edge Tools"
Hobart Chatfield-Taylor