Snuff-box Sentence Examples

snuff-box

  • 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."

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  • Sitting with his snuff-box before him, and his head bent down, he looked ill at ease, and kept turning the folios of his notes.

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

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