Snuff Sentence Examples

Maybe she decided to snuff him out, to keep him quiet.

Another pretext would be her snuff, which would seem too dry or too damp or not rubbed fine enough.

Along with very serious health risks, chewing tobacco or using snuff can have other unattractive effects.

Chewing tobacco and snuff are irritating to gums and can scratch teeth, letting in the bacteria that cause decay.

Just like you wouldn't want to run in inferior shoes, so too should your eyewear be up to snuff.

If your PC's graphics and sound cards aren't up to snuff you might not be so impressed.

This type is favored by people who like to make their own snuff, a finely cut, smokeless tobacco product.

The variety grown is usually of the Virginia type, and the leaf is coarse, dark and heavy, and suited to the manufacture of plug and snuff.

In northern Russia the produce is mainly a large, coarse, heavy, dark leaf, of use only for the manufacture of plug and snuff.

His chief amusement was cards, and he began the habit of taking snuff.

In the breast pocket of his cassock was a large silver snuff box, and he always wore a biretta.

Oral cancer occurs several times more frequently among snuff dippers compared with non-tobacco users.

She was a large lazy woman, fond of sniffing ground tobacco called snuff and drinking gin.

To think that ocelots take snuff is to token in some way a mental representation whose content is that ocelots take snuff.

Not to be sneezed at - not to be underrated or treated lightly taking snuff may induce sneezing.

In February 1998, the UK government announced a ban on the supply and sale of oral snuff under the 1987 Consumer Protection Act.

Then came the end of the night with chants from the netball girls being " hot to go " and probably yet more snuff!

Snuff and chewing tobacco snuff and chewing tobacco Snuff and chewing tobacco are not widely used in the UK, but are relatively common in mainland Europe.

A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out, till he leads justice to victory.

As the New Town expanded, the Heriot Trust - whose revenues were greatly benefited thereby - erected day-schools in different districts, in which thousands of infants and older children received a free education, and, in 1 James Gillespie (1726-1797) was a tobacco and snuff manufacturer, and when he set up his carriage Henry Erskine suggested as a motto the homely couplet " Wha wad hae thocht it, That noses wad bocht it?

He hurriedly took a pinch of snuff.

Not to be sneezed at - not to be underrated or treated lightly Taking snuff may induce sneezing.

Then came the end of the night with chants from the netball girls being " hot to go " and probably yet more snuff !

Coral snuff bottles from the eighteenth century are relatively rare.

Outside Bewdley, a snuff mill was created to grind the raw material, tobacco.

I can, for example, take up my snuff box.

Give him a lead role in a snuff film.

The two women are ushered out of the room as Moore and Hart roll up their sleeves and snuff out the candle.

However our impetus was gone and the Ilkeston defense was back together and able to snuff out attacks as they began.

If you do choose a cake that features some form of marine life, make sure to pick a decorator who is up to snuff, because the detail work involved can be significant and is easy to botch.

Snuff. Snuff is finely-chopped tobacco that looks a little like damp tea leaves.

And, just like with cigarettes, using snuff or chew can become a habit that's as hard to kick as the physical addiction.

If you have one of the latter instructors, your ballet vocabulary had better be up to snuff; otherwise you'll be left standing in the back wondering what a 'tendu' and a 'balancé' are.

Just keep a few things in mind such as fighting fire with fire can snuff out the flame.

If your drawing skills aren't up to snuff, you'll be told you're not ready.

Use this manual to bring your other habits up to snuff.

The film, intended to resemble a snuff movie, was banned universally, though is available on the Internet.

The only actor worth his snuff in this movie is Jack Nickelson because he's the only person who is portraying a character rather than acting out a part.

The chief industry is the manufacture of tobacco for smoking and chewing, of cigars and cigarettes and of snuff.

Tobacco, smoked in leaves or cane-pipes or taken as snuff, was in use, especially at feasts.

A fine kind of snuff, known as fuli, is manufactured here.

The kidney fat of all sheep and the skins of all goats slaughtered in the public yard are perquisites of government, the former being used for the manufacture of soap, which, with snuff, is a government monopoly.

He appears to find perverse sexual gratification out of encouraging Othello to strangle Desdemona, as if he was anticipating a snuff movie!

Everyone who studies the effects of moist snuff comes up with the same conclusion.

In fact much of what we are allowed to see is played in the background, with the likes of snuff videos.

Snuff and chewing tobacco Snuff and chewing tobacco are not widely used in the UK, but are relatively common in mainland Europe.

Next in importance come those of tobacco, snuff, cigars, the making of cigar boxes, jute-spinning, distilling, sugar refining and the shelling of rice.

The salmonfishery and fish-curing are important branches of its trade; and it has also breweries and flour-mills and manufactures snuff and coarse linen.

In his later years an old blue uniform with red facings was his usual dress, and on his breast was generally some Spanish snuff, of which he consumed large quantities.

The seeds of Acacia niopo are roasted and used as snuff in South America.

It is an ingredient in pot-pourri, is employed for flavouring beer and is chewed to clear the voice; and its volatile oil is employed by makers of snuff and aromatic vinegar.

Other industries include sugar refineries, soap, oil, glass, iron, dye and chemical works; distilleries, breweries, tanneries; tobacco and snuff factories; shipbuilding and the manufacture of machinery and stearine candles.

The woollen industries of Devizes have lost their prosperity; but there is a large grain trade, with engineering works, breweries, and manufactures of silk, snuff, tobacco and agricultural implements.

The most valuable manufacture in the same year was smoking and chewing tobacco (especially plug tobacco) and snuff valued at $11,635367 - which product with that of cigars and cigarettes ($1,225,347) constituted 1 5.5% of the value of the factory products of the city.

After a while he re-entered it as if to snuff the candles, and, seeing the prince was lying on the sofa, looked at him, noticed his perturbed face, shook his head, and going up to him silently kissed him on the shoulder and left the room without snuffing the candles or saying why he had entered.

Stored tobacco is liable to be attacked and ruined by the " cigarette beetle," a cosmopolitan insect of very varied tastes, feeding not only on dried tobacco of all kinds, including snuff, but also on rhubarb, cayenne pepper, tumeric, ginger, figs and herbarium specimens.

Measured by the value of the product, flour and grist mill products rose from third in rank in 1900 to first in rank in 1905, from $13,017,043 to $18,007,786, or 38.3%; and chewing and smoking tobacco and snuff fell during the same period from first to third in rank, from $14,948,192 to $13,117,000, or 12.3%; in 1900 Kentucky was second, in 1905 third, among the states in the value of this product.

There were 467 tobacco factories reported in 1905 to be engaged in the manufacture of cigars, cheroots, cigarettes, snuff and cut tobaccos for the pipe.

The city also manufactures cigars, cigarettes, snuff, a fertilizer having tobacco dust as the base, cotton goods, lumber, window sashes, blinds, drugs and hosiery.

The rapid extension of tobacco culture was accompanied by a corresponding growth in the manufacture of chewing and smoking tobacco and snuff, and some of the brands have a wide reputation.

The peculiar properties of snuff are dependent on the presence of free nicotine, free ammonia and the aromatic principles developed during fermentation.

He explained, corrected or commented till the clock struck nine; then, with the little finger of the right hand brushing from his coat and waistcoat the shower of superfluous snuff which had fallen on them, he pocketed his snuff-box, and resuming his hat, he as silently as when he came in made his exit by the door which I rushed to open for him."

The chief are tanning, fellmongery, wool-washing, bacon-curing, flour milling, brewing, iron-founding, brick-making, soap-boiling, the manufacture of pottery, candles, cheese, cigars, snuff, jams, biscuits, jewelry, furniture, boots, clothing and leather and woollen goods.

After these fits of irritability her face would grow yellow, and her maids knew by infallible symptoms when Belova would again be deaf, the snuff damp, and the countess' face yellow.

Other branches of industry include carpet-weaving at Deventer, the distillation of brandy, gin and liqueurs at Schiedam, Rotterdam and Amsterdam, and beer-brewing in most of the principal towns; shoe-making and leather-tanning in the Langstraat district of North Brabant; paper-making at Apeldoorn, on the Zaan, and in Limburg; the manufacture of earthenware and faience at Maastricht, the Hague and Delft, as well as at Utrecht, Purmerend and Makkum; clay pipes and stearine candles at Gouda; margarine at Osch; chocolate at Weesp and on the Zaan; mat-plaiting and broom-making at Genemuiden and Blokzyl; diamondcutting and the manufacture of quinine at Amsterdam; and the making of cigars and snuff at Eindhoven, Amsterdam, Utrecht, Kampen, &c. Shipbuilding is of no small importance in Holland, not only in the greater, but also in the smaller towns along the rivers and canals.

Dean managed to whistle down a young boy who agreed to use his snow blower on Dean's unfinished sidewalk, for an amount Dean considered ridiculous, but he knew he needed to get up to snuff on Shipton's fall before he was totally on the defensive.

The tobacco best suited for snuff-making Snuff.

The manufacture of snuff is the most complex, tedious and difficult undertaking of the tobacco manufacture, but it is now of but little ff importance.

She passed the valet, the snuff fell from the candle wick, and she saw Prince Andrew clearly with his arms outside the quilt, and such as she had always seen him.