Citations:smoke


 * 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress:
 * Now the monster was hideous to behold; he was clothed with scales, like a fish, (and they are his pride,) he had wings like a dragon, feet like a bear, and out of his belly came fire and smoke, and his mouth was as the mouth of a lion.
 * And ever and anon the flame and smoke would come out in such abundance, with sparks and hideous noises, (things that cared not for Christian's sword, as did Apollyon before), that he was forced to put up his sword, and betake himself to another weapon called All-prayer. [Eph. 6:18] So he cried in my hearing, "O Lord, I beseech thee, deliver my soul!" [Ps. 116:4] Thus he went on a great while, yet still the flames would be reaching towards him.


 * 1903, Frances Simpson, The Book of the Cat, page 184:
 * I think one obtains it best by mating a smoke-bred smoke cat with either a silver-bred smoke or else with a silver cat, as unmarked as possible, who possesses a smoke ancestor. Some day I should like to try mating a black with a pale silver, ...
 * 1978, Cat Fanciers' Association, Annual Yearbook
 * The shading factor may come through smoke or silver ancestry, but at least one of the true cameo coated cat&#39;s parents must have a white undercoat, and at least one parent must have some cream or red showing in its coat color.