He was noting dreamily how his jagged teeth showed beneath the thin, snuffy upper lip, and the trick the mouth had of remaining wide open after it had ceased talking.
But what was all this rapture about a snuffy brown picture called Titian, this delight in three flabby nymphs by Rubens, and so forth?
It was wonderful what a liking John James took to this odious, querulous, graceless, stupid, and snuffy old man, and how he would find pretexts for visiting him at his lodging in the old hospital.
Presently a maid entered with a tray on which were balanced two bowls of chocolate, and the snuffy old gentlemen leered at her ankles.
The snuffy old gentlemen had left the room in a body, outwardly polite and inwardly raging.
Hastings caught a glimpse of a young man with a big head and several snuffy old gentlemen at breakfast, before the door closed and the stout woman waddled into the room, bringing with her an aroma of coffee and a black poodle.
He returned the vacant glance of the big-headed young man and acknowledged diffidently the salutes of the snuffy old gentlemen.
Now the matrimonial gates are lifted high, and the young man has not to ask permission of any snuffy old magistrate to marry.
Now I could not help fancying that the learned and snuffy judge was a little more convinced of the wholesomeness and convenience of hanging, than either Denman, or our good King George.
He was constantly explaining to the witnesses what the snuffy judge said to them, from very impatience, and then again he would explain to my lud on the bench the blunders and mistakes of witnesses.
What inspiration for the soul is there in the sight of snuffy collectors that have the air of Schnorrers?
It had been a fine thing once to come into this village with Letitia, and buy stale gingerbread and rickety kites of a snuffy old pensioner of his mother's.
What quondam collector at Rome but must recollect that snuffy and gruffy old fellow, Ignazio Vesconali, who lives at the bottom of Scalirata, and has grown old with the Piazza itself!
It would be a rotten dinner probably followed by a deadly dull evening with a snuffy old fossil who would tell him long-winded, rambling anecdotes of what New York had been like when there were wild goats in Central Park.
The snuffy old fossil, however, made no reference whatever to either old New York or wild goats,--the nearest he came to it being wild oats.
When such were mentioned in his hearing, he seldom failed to point out how necessary it was to arrest the object of your curiosity in its first transit, and to tell his favourite story of Snuffy Davie and Caxton's Game at Chess.
Snuffy Davy bought the Game of Chess, 1474, the first book ever printed in England, from a stall in Holland, for about two groschen, or twopence of our money.
Broome Street, and also shows the exact quantity of Witchcraft that snuffy personage can afford for one Dollar.
Broome Street; and also shows the exact amount of Witchcraft that snuffy personage can afford for one dollar.
Old Snuffy Tom well play'd his part, He swigg'd away with all his heart.
Of course, he isn't bad, when you know him; but he's liable to be pretty snuffy after running out so long.
Billy Louise was no coward with horses, but she recognized certain fixed limitations in the management of a snuffy brute like Rattler.
Snuffy Callum, the parish beadle, going to the door.
Conspicuous in the group was the little snuffy doctor, Critchel, looking happy among the people whose ills he had administered to for half a century.
It was Critchel, the little snuffy doctor, who entered, looking for all the world like an enlarged snow-ball.
Yet, when he had extinguished a snuffy chuckle in his red bandana handkerchief, Key knew that he would accompany him to the convent that noon.
Father Cipriano, a trifle moresnuffy and aged, remembered with delight his old pupil.
Even Lil Abner and Snuffy Smith battled the vegetation while no one but Jiggs remained absolutely impervious.
Hermann, with his hair rumpled, in a snuffy flannel shirt and a pair of mustard-coloured trousers, had rushed to help with the wheel.
Lady Le Breton was surprised at the decision; but as it was in her favour, she wisely abstained from gratifying her natural desire to make some more uncomplimentary references to the snuffy old German socialist.
It appears to me you make thatsnuffy old German microscope man your father confessor.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "snuffy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
