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Snuffbox

noun
1.
A small ornamental box for carrying snuff in your pocket.



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"Snuffbox" Quotes from Famous Books



... stopped to take a pinch of snuff; but observing Mrs. Charmond gazing at him, he hastened to get over the top out of hail. His precipitancy made him miss his footing, and he rolled like a barrel to the bottom, his snuffbox ...
— The Woodlanders • Thomas Hardy

... up for my long silence, and to make up for a long letter, I will string another old story, which I have just heard, to this. General Wade was at a low gaming-house, and had a very fine snuffbox, which on a sudden he missed. Every body denied having taken it: he insisted on searching the company. He did: there remained only one man, who had stood behind him, but refused to be searched, unless the general would go into another room alone with him: there the man told him, ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 2 • Horace Walpole

... "Glorious John," as he was called, reigned without a rival in English letters; and one can picture him as a short, stout, somewhat ruddy-faced gentleman, sitting in Will's Coffee House surrounded by younger authors who vie with one another for the honor of a pinch out of his snuffbox. He died at the age of sixty-nine, and was buried in the Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey, near Chaucer ...
— Selections from Five English Poets • Various



Words linked to "Snuffbox" :   snuffbox fern, box



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