After supper, however, on this first evening, an unwonted cloud hung over the brow of the host, which yielded not to the benign influence of four cups of tea, and eatables in proportion; withstood the sedative consolations of a meerschaum of the best "Navy," and scarcely gave way when, with the two eldest of the party, he sat down to a steaming glass of "something hot," whose "controlling spirit" was "materialized" from a bottle labeled "Cabinet Brandy."
"Adrift in the Ice-Fields"
Charles W. Hall
House and outbuildings were different; there were three times as many workpeople, they were three times as well off, and Knut himself, in his broadcloth coat, sat in the evenings and smoked his meerschaum pipe and drank his glass of toddy with the Captain and the Pastor and the Bailiff.
"The Bridal March; One Day"
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
He moodily filled the meerschaum they had brought him, and after driving a volume of smoke through his nose, looked quietly up and said: Society is wrong.
"First Fam'lies of the Sierras"
Joaquin Miller