snuff

• There are two men in it; one sits on the bench and takes snuff, and does up little paper pellets; the other is just discoverable under a cloud of tobacco smoke, perched upon the top of a small observatory. —  Seven Little People and their Friends
• At length she leaned a bit to one side, reached into a pocket and taking out a snuff-stick and a parcel of its attendant compound, began to take a "dip" of snuff, after the habit of certain of the population of that region. —  The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X)
• Yet, what young lady who carries a concealed snuff-box, can be sure of not coming to this I saw a woman who commenced with chewing snuff, and is now a regular tobacco chewer. —  A Disquisition on the Evils of Using Tobacco and the Necessity of Immediate and Entire Reformation
• Though all who are attached to the quid, the pipe, or the snuff-box, are not attached to the bottle; yet a vast multitude become attached to the bottle, and this attachment is continued and increased, through the poisonous, bewitching, and debasing influence of tobacco Moreover, the use of tobacco involves a train of evils, superadded to its influence in perpetuating drunkenness, which cries aloud for immediate and universal reformation. —  A Disquisition on the Evils of Using Tobacco and the Necessity of Immediate and Entire Reformation
• Is there a Christian_,--is there a patriot_,--is there a friend of humanity,--is there an individual_, that values his own probationary existence,--who can look at the sweeping mortality which tobacco brings upon the nation, and longer indulge his attachment to his quid, his pipe or his snuff-box? —  A Disquisition on the Evils of Using Tobacco and the Necessity of Immediate and Entire Reformation

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