Switters lit a Havana panatela, Cuban cigars being an occasional perk of CIA employment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates]

He was finished with his food and was untubing a panatela, a simple exercise that he surrounded with detailed ceremony.    From Wordnik.com.  [Underworld] Reference

Holding the clipping towards the light, Crockett began to peruse it, squinting through the smoky haze issuing from the smoldering tip of his much-reduced panatela.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nevermore] Reference

It was only then that he perceived—to his inexpressible astonishment and consternation—that the panatela had burnt itself down to a hot, glowing stub, clamped between the first and middle fingers of his right hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nevermore] Reference

This was the case of a young Trinidadian gentleman who—while seated on the portico of his plantation house one afternoon, enjoying a panatela cigar—had suddenly become aware of the distinctive aroma of roasting meat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nevermore] Reference

Re-inserting his half-smoked panatela between his teeth, the frontiersman chewed on the tip for a moment before inquiring: “Why in tarnation didn’t you tell Cap’n Russell none of this?”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nevermore] Reference

For several moments Crockett sat in silence, chewing ruminatively on his glowing panatela, which protruded from one corner of his mouth, “Well,” he drawled at length, “that is most uncommon curious, for a certainty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nevermore] Reference

“Banacek,” about a vintage-Packard-driving, panatela-smoking insurance investigator from ritzy Beacon Hill in Boston, was part of the network’s attempt the following year at a second whodunit anthology, on Wednesday nights.    From Wordnik.com.  [Banacek] Reference

"Proximate but no panatela, Doctor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devil's Waltz]

Or maybe, I thought, with his lyric grasp of US history, Obama enjoyed as much as I did the interstitial bits of procedural prose ( "Ladies and gentlemen, fellow Democrats and friends, we bring you greetings from the great state of Georgia, the thirteenth state in our union, birthplace of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr .... where we look to the future with an optimistic gaze ... we, the empire state of the South, the jewel of the South, the great state of Georgia ...), scenting the convention with their panatela reek of mock pomposity, the all but inaudible echoed trumpetings of the electoral past.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama & the Conquest of Denver] Reference