Then an aged Lutheran priest, who had sat within the rail, with a snuffbox in his hand and a red print handkerchief across his knee, hobbled up to the witness stool and tendered evidence.
His snuffbox was silver, and on it in gold were the king's arms.
Philadelphia had a day of jubilee in honor of the repeal of the Stamp Act, and Mr. Calamity with cane and snuffbox wandered out to see the sights.
I can not ever take snuff again out of a snuffbox like that.
Old Mr. Calamity used to sit under the great elm tree at Shakamaxon in the long summer days and extend his silver snuffbox to people as they passed.
He took out his silver snuffbox and held it shaking.
As often as he heard the word "independence" on the street his cane would fly up, and after this spasm his snuffbox would come out of his pocket for refreshment.
As he passed the snuffbox to the Continentals he met, and showed the royal arms upon it, they turned away from him; they would not take snuff from the royal snuffbox.
To be sure; and I also received the valuable snuffbox you were so good as to send me," replied Mr. Thorneycroft.
When I could see them no more, I rose, and put my snuffbox in my breast.
I took from my pocket the gold snuffbox with the portraits on the lid, and placed my key carefully therein.
The snuffbox and two bags of coin were gone, I saw with consternation, but the princess recognized so many things that she missed nothing, controlling herself as her touch moved from trinket to trinket that her mother had worn.
The snuffbox and the missal which had belonged to my family in France I always carried with me.
Nearly every night during all those years of changing, for even faithfulness has its tides, I put the snuffbox under my pillow, and Madame de Ferrier's key spoke to my ear.
The faithful Marchand obeyed, and when he returned Napoleon took the snuffbox from his hands to show the girls--for Jane was with Betsy--a miniature on the lid.
This ceremony meant that I was welcome, and I passed the snuffbox to his son who, in turn, offered a pinch of snuff to Pinta.
Then one passed his snuffbox round, each taking a pinch of snuff.
The father took his snuffbox from a small bag and offered me a pinch of snuff.
He bade us in, we were made welcome, and the snuffbox was passed around.
Then he takes out his snuffbox and taps it, which is a sign that he is going to say something worth while.
Garrick here bursts into a laugh, which is broken off short by a reproving look from the Dean, who has gotten the snuffbox back and is meditatively tapping it again.
He called me into his office and half raised the snuffbox off the desk as though to offer me an unwelcome pinch.
Still collarless, snuffbox in hand, he napoleonically directed the removal of those valuables without which the newspaper could not continue.
There he shocked me for the third time: a high, glossy collar, a flowing and figured cravat concealed the famous diamond stud, while instead of the snuffbox his hands hovered over a package of cheap cigarettes.
Youre a made man now, Weener," he said, thinking better of his generosity and putting the snuffbox back.
From the snuffbox on his desk, which I'd imagined a pretty ornament or receptacle for small objects, he scooped with a flat thumb a conical mound of graybrown dust and this, with a sweeping upward motion, he pushed into a gaping nostril.
But Mr Le ffaçasé's desk was nude except for an enameled snuffbox and a signed photograph of a president whose administration had been subjected daily to the editor's bitterest jabs.
The earliest of these is an inlaid silver snuffbox (fig.
After various complimentary allusions to the manner in which Mr. Fox had performed the delicate duties entrusted to him by his government, the Prince, in the name of the Emperor, presented a gold snuffbox set with diamonds.
The snuffboxminus its decorations is part of the Gustavus Vasa Fox collection in the Museum.
Thereupon the Chamberlain tapped his golden snuffbox and said:— “My dear Judge, in former times it was still worse.
The snuffboxwas of gold, set with diamonds, and in the middle of it was a portrait of King Stanislaw.
Thereupon he set to work, a bottle of wine and his Spanish snuffbox before him, and his hostess's pretty daughter by his side to enact the part of inspiring muse.
Emperor, who further compared Mozart's compositions to a snuffbox of Parisian manufacture, Haydn's to one manufactured in London.
He was shown the sword and snuffbox of General Count de Songis, brother of his paternal grandmother.
The snuffboxwas given him by the Emperor for having commanded the passage of the Rhine during the Ulm campaign.
The doctor, coming in after an hour, found him still sleeping, while Marrion sat beside the bed holding the goldsnuffbox in her hand.
He gave no reason for doing so, but no doubt the Goblin in the snuffbox had something to do with it.
A snuffbox happened to be upon the table and he lay down at full length behind it, and here he could easily watch the dainty little lady, who still remained standing on one leg without losing her balance.
With earnest eyes, and round unthinking face, He first the snuffbox opened, then the case.
Not until she had opened the padded lid and had seen the snuffbox reposing in a bed of cotton wool did she relapse into a long sigh of relief.
It would seem that the giddy old thing hobbled home from synagogue conversing with Yossel Mandelstein, the hunchback, and sometimes even offered the unshapely septuagenarian her snuffbox as he passed the door of her cottage.
Something far more amazing than any snuffbox now challenged his astonished eyes.
The dark brown eye seemed to stare up at him with a human twinkle as he brought out his gold snuffbox and took a pinch.
He sneezed all the way, for he had accepted a pinch from Peter's snuffbox ignorant of its effects upon an untrained nose.
When you came down again for your black pearl set and found the door open you thought at once of my snuffbox and jumped at the conclusion, since it wasn't in the place you remembered putting it, that it wasn't there at all.
She brought back a jeweled snuffbox of antique design which had belonged to her great-grandfather.
Jane, but referring to the snuffbox in his hands, lowered for closer inspection into the light of the electric lamp.
Forthwith she placed upon her nose The glasses large and wide; And looking round, as I suppose, The snuffbox too she spied: "Oh!
Her grandmamma went out one day And by mistake she laid Her spectacles andsnuffbox gay Too near the little maid.
Books lay upon the table; one of them open, with a horn snuffbox keeping down the leaf.
Colonel Byrd took out his snuffbox and studied the picture on the lid, while his daughter sat like a carven lady, with a slight smile upon her lips.
Even Charles, who strutted and plumed himself and offered his snuffbox to every passer-by, must acknowledge that!
The Colonel put up his snuffboxand brushed a grain from his ruffles.
He opened it, and the snuffbox said to him in the Spanish language: "What do you want?
The young man did not reply, but when it grew dark he took out his snuffboxand opened the lid.
On he went, away, away, away, but he sought the snuffbox in vain all up and down the neighboring countries, and very soon he came to the end of all his money.
So he took out the snuffbox and opened it, and again it asked: "What do you want?
She opened the lid and the snuffboxsaid to her: "What do you want?
And then he lay down at full length behind a snuffbox which was on the table; there he could easily watch the little dainty lady, who continued to stand on one leg without losing her balance.
Suddenly I saw that a gentleman had stopped beside me and had taken his snuffbox from his pocket.
Monsieur Guillardin took out his snuffbox and offered it to the bride, who muttered: "Snuff!
He put his snuffbox into his waistcoat pocket, took it out again, lifted it several times to his nose, and stopped in front of Balashev.
Yes, it has happened luckily for you," he said, raising the open snuffboxto his nose.
Napoleon grinned maliciously and again raised his snuffboxto his nose.
You know N-- N-- received a snuffbox with the portrait last year?
The countess reflected a moment and took a pinch from a gold snuffbox with her husband's portrait on it.
Simon sighed and stooped to straighten the leash a young borzoi had entangled; the count too sighed and, noticing the snuffbox in his hand, opened it and took a pinch.
That is probably the work of Vinesse," said Pierre, mentioning a celebrated miniaturist, and he leaned over the table to take the snuffbox while trying to hear what was being said at the other table.
The count, forgetting to smooth out the smile on his face, looked into the distance straight before him, down the narrow open space, holding the snuffbox in his hand but not taking any.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "snuffbox" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
