Nay, I would even go so far as to say that to smoke a pipe is a healthier practice than to take snuff.

Among its members our regiment numbered a lieutenant--a most excellent, well-educated fellow--who was simply INCAPABLE of removing his pipe from his mouth, whether at table or (pardon me) in other places.

He is now forty, yet no man could enjoy better health than he has always done." Chichikov replied that such cases were common, since nature comprised many things which even the finest intellect could not compass.
"But allow me to put to you a question," he went on in a tone in which there was a strange--or, at all events, RATHER a strange--note.

For some unknown reason, also, he glanced over his shoulder.

For some equally unknown reason, Manilov glanced over HIS.
"How long is it," inquired the guest, "since you last rendered a census return ?" "Oh, a long, long time.