The floors were sticky with the tar from overflowing spittoons.
Often placed in the middle of the floor, the spittoon was used mainly by tobacco-chewers.
I felt stupid and alone, and compensated by trying desperately to keep a fingerhold on my identity by hiding a spittoon in the inside of my jacket pocket so I could chew tobacco during class.
The host, not to be outdone, was sitting with his feet on the railing of the stove, but as far from the spittoon as possible.
The ladies are not compelled to sit in isolation, by the side of passengers who use the car-floor as a spittoon.
An attendant holding a spittoon immediately took up his position beside him.
The spittoon was emptied into the sea at a distance from land secretly and in the middle of the night.
The spittoon was solid silver, and had never been used but once, when a child threw into it an orange peeling.