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Usage examples of ashtrays.

Dirty dishes, beer bottles, crumpled cigarette packs, overflowing ashtrays, and dirty clothes littered every surface.

Carelessly he turned and swiped everything off the surface of the dirty little table, knocking newspapers and ashtrays and dirty dishes to the floor where it joined the rest of the litter and looked right at home.

An army of black-suited waiters wove in and out among the ta­bles, topping off wineglasses, emptying ashtrays, scraping away crumbs, and generally fulfilling every wish before most of them were even voiced.

Five of their faces will wizen like party balloons, on a diet of ashtrays and anti-depressants, and sedatives with feminine names, the names of wild-flowers found in the Arctic only.

I moved a couple of ashtrays and a vase of plastic tulips and spread it across the table.

There were lots of satin-shaded table lamps and glass ashtrays as big as hand basins, Sam walked across to the sofa where I sat.

Across the bar were Cinzano ashtrays and shiny equipment for making 'le cocktail': strainers, shakers, fruit-knife and swizzle-sticks.

I leaned back and surveyed the empty wine bottles and the full ashtrays and wondered how I could get a job as a Michelin Guide inspector.

In a few minutes, her thin arms heavily weighted under a pyramid of memorandum pads, boxes of pencils, shorthand notebook, and spare ashtrays, she went carefully to the door of the Cabinet Room.

She found the silver silent butler, and began to move about the Cabinet table, emptying ashtrays into it.

She’d be happy never to see the house or Morton or the stinking ashtrays he left behind him ever again, but she’d miss Dr.

It was a livable kind of room, with built-in bookshelves and plenty of ashtrays and not too fancy chintz covers on the chairs, a pleasant compromise between interior decorating and masculine comfort.

There was a pipe in one of the ashtrays by the fireplace: he went over and felt the bowl, and it was quite cold.

The Saint drew his head back from the rising grumble of traffic, lowered the sash to within a few inches of the sill, and balanced a glass and a couple of ashtrays precariously on top of it, which would give ample warning of any uninvited guests from that direction.

The furniture was Spanish rustic and rattan, an easy chair with a laurel pattern, stand-up ashtrays, scrapes on the sofa, bookcases, Santiago pottery on the mantelpiece.