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Snuffbox  n.  A small box for carrying snuff about the person.





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"Snuffbox" Quotes from Famous Books



... deprecatingly, watching Desmond with the same intentness. The boy was dumb: he might also have been deaf. Diggle drew from his fob an elaborately chased snuffbox and took a pinch of fine rappee, Desmond mechanically noticing that the box bore ornamentation of ...
— In Clive's Command - A Story of the Fight for India • Herbert Strang
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... I don't find myself disposed to be brought upon the stage again. — I won't presume to make free with your pockets, but I beg you will put it up again with your own hand.' So saying, with a certain austerity of aspect, he presented the snuffbox to the knight, who received it in some confusion, and restored the mull, which he would by no means keep except on the terms ...
— The Expedition of Humphry Clinker • Tobias Smollett
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... Marquis, and drew a gold snuffbox from his pocket. "You say, 'if the deed was infamous,' monsieur. Am I to understand that you are no longer as convinced as you appeared ...
— Scaramouche - A Romance of the French Revolution • Rafael Sabatini
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Words linked to "Snuffbox" :   box, snuffbox fern


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