Early in the seventeenth century the Parisian rogues availed themselves of the regulations against the use of snuff to pillage the snuff-takers.
My value then does not quite reach to a pinch of snuff standard.
It is prohibited to drink wine and spirits amongst Moslemites, but, nevertheless, many of them do not fail to intoxicate themselves with everything besides which comes in their way: they snuff most horribly all the live-long day.
People call snuff hot and cold, according to its stimulating, irritating, and tickling power.
A man is said sometimes not to be worth "a pinch of snuff;" and yet a pinch of snuff will knock a man down, as it knocked me down this evening.
I am obliged to buy him snuff every week, and a stock for the journey.
The Souf snuff is extremely powerful; it is constantly imported here, and for the satisfaction of snuff-takers and snuff-taking tourists, I am bound to inform them that they will find snuff much cheaper in Ghadames than in Tripoli.
Other persons do weighing for them, they looking on, like the Jews who will not touch the candle on their Sabbath, and get Mussulman or Christian servants to snuff a candle or trim a lamp for them.
And the wild asses stand on the bare fells; They snuff the wind like jackals; Their eyes fail, for there is no pasturage.
He was a red and choleric little man of about sixty, with a protuberant stomach, a prodigious nose, to which he carried snuff about once in two minutes, and a marked deformity of the shoulders.
He shifted his position, grunted, and took snuff furiously.
Long Shon pulled a battered brass box out of his pouch, and took a big pinch of snuff as he waddled behind.
Her dear face now rises before me, as she used sometimes to come running down-stairs with a stolen pinch of snuff for me, her whole form radiant with the pleasure of giving pleasure.
With that, he shook the snuff from his fingers as if he had shaken the dust from his feet, and quietly walked down-stairs.
The Marquis took a gentle little pinch of snuffand shook his head; as elegantly despondent as he could becomingly be, of a country still containing himself, that great means of regeneration.
Mr. Micawber extended his hand to each of us in succession, and then covered his face with his pocket-handkerchief, which I think had more snuff upon it than he was aware of.
I was turned over to him now, and when I saw him take his snuff and let the business go, I regretted my aunt's thousand pounds more than ever.
Mr. Dick, taking snuff from a round box on the table, and laughing heartily.
To crop the snuff of, as a candle; to take off the end of the snuff of.
An instrument for cropping and holding the snuffof a candle.
Thus for the list of human woes, The pangs each mortal bosom knows, I find in snuff relief: It makes me feel less sense of sorrow, When modern bards their verses borrow, And soothes my patriot grief.
A pinch of snuff delights again, And makes me view with great disdain, And soothes my patriot grief.
We have trespassed," he wailed mechanically, as he spasmodically put the snuff in his bosom and beat his nose with his clenched fist.
There is an apocryphal anecdote of one of them being in the act of taking a pinch of snuff when the "Confession" caught him unexpectedly.
But let me banquet with old Homer's jolly gods and heroes, revel with the Mahometan houris, or gain admission into the savoury sanctorum of the gormandizing priesthood, snuff the fumes from their altars, and gorge on the fat of lambs.
No--Then may all who ever heard the name of Coke Clifton make it their byword and their scoff; and every idiot curl the nose and snuff me to scorn!
As he passed along, bending his body and bringing his broad shoulders to nearly a horizontal position, the idea occurred to our minds to furnish him with some recruits from the colony in the snuff box.
At this point the doctor again took snuff with exasperated energy, and for a moment seemed stupefied by its effects.
But the snuff was of a sort which even a corpse could not endure.
It is true he strutted about the Walk, dressed as faultlessly as ever, swung his tassled cane with much of his old elegance, and took snuff with all the airy grace imaginable.
Fortunately his coat had originally been snuff-coloured, so that the spilled snuff made no difference to it.
His snuff was very strong, and had made his eyes water.
Pray," said Colonel Cleland, taking snuff and swinging himself to and fro with an air of fashionable grace, "has any one seen the new paper?
When the tradesman opens his till to give change, snuff is thrown into his eyes, thus making him helpless.
It would be as unreasonable to expect him to remember all the wretches whom he slew as all the pinches of snuff that he took.
All the big princes bolted from that castle of ennui where old King George sat, posting up his books and droning over his Handel; and old Queen Charlotte over her snuff and her tambour-frame.
Let her stand,” said the queen, flicking the snuff off her sleeve.
Snuff made with this powder has cured night blindness, as among the French prisoners at Norman Cross in 1806.
The powdered root forms a good snuff to cure chronic catarrh of the head and nostrils, and to clear the brain by exciting a free flow of nasal mucus and tears--Purgatur cerebrum mansâ radice Pyrethri.
The powdered root mixed in snuff is of efficacy for weak eyes.
Having sat down, and with much gravity, suitable to the solemnity of the occasion, accepted snuff from one of the workers, I made them understand that I should like to know what they were doing.
This he filled completely with snuff from the bottle, and afterwards passed it to the other, turning his head away, according to Kaffir etiquette, so that he might not appear to watch the quantity taken.
Besides this, in domestic life the issikoko always holds the wearer's snuff spoon, of which I shall speak further on.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "snuff" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
