He knocked the offending Cobb into a corner among the spittoons, and ran away from the unbearable tyranny of home.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
The park is glorious, but it amused me to see spittoons all along the pathways.
"My Diary in Serbia: April 1, 1915-Nov. 1, 1915"
Monica M. Stanley
There were some two thousand souls in Red Creek; two or three stores, a bakery from which the crude odour of baking bread burst every night; saloons, warehouses, a smithy, a butcher shop open only two days a week, a Chinese laundry from which opium-tainted steam issued all day and all night; cattle sheds, pepper trees, wheat barns, and a hotel of raw pine, with a narrow bedroom represented by every one of the forty narrow windows in its upper stories, and a lower floor decorated with spittoons.
"Sisters"
Kathleen Norris