(1) My strange - and remarkably lifelike - mental movie reel is still whirring as she stubs out her slim panatella and draws the story to a close.

(2) Light another panatella , and get on the your horse, we have a race to win.

(3) Cake and coffee finished, she pulled out a long slim panatella , lit up and smoked it full down, all the while watching the street scene through darkened glasses.

(4) After a lot of perfunctory goodbyes, and Cess waving to the bus as it pulled away while dabbing at his eyes with a hanky, Brownlegg beckoned everyone to the backseat while he had a sly smoke of his panatella .

(5) That first handful of novels, slim as panatellas , are testament to that.