11.   So, also, were the several expensive cigars exhumed from the green excelsior and ex-fumed with great relish on the back deck.

12.   The exception to his otherwise conservative appearance was a fondness for ruby, sapphire, jade or onyx pinky rings, and for expensive cigars.

13.   The question hangs, like a whiff of expensive cigar smoke, over the crowd that fills the Improvisation, a branch of the nationwide comedy-nightclub chain.

14.   They ate Chinese food, smoked expensive cigars and told bawdy stories late into the night over pots that sometimes reached hundreds of dollars.

15.   Vanderkin has his coffee, a breadbox-size humidor he made, and two dozen expensive cigars in the command tent.

16.   Witnesses said that they consumed a number of bottles of champagne, were smoking expensive cigars and were behaving in an emphatically macho manner.

17.   One cigar-maker rolls cigars before the eyes of tourists, who browse among wooden boxes of expensive cigars.

18.   Several specialty shops in Bangkok cater to smokers with expensive imported Cuban cigars.

19.   Varabhorn said that conspicuous consumption of expensive imported cigars sent the wrong signal to poor Thais as the country grapples with the worst economic recession since World War II.

20.   He lives simply but likes expensive cigars and frequently travels abroad.