snuff-brown

• “The prayer was cut off when a burly man wearing a snuff-brown doublet shoved him out of the way with a curse.”

  Simon & Schuster: WHEN THE HEAVENS FALL

• “Rachel had chosen a snuff-brown dress of heavy silk to wear this night.”

  Fictionaut: Dearly Beloved

• “Chaboisseau, a little old person with powdered hair, wore a greenish coat and snuff-brown waistcoat; he was tricked out besides in black small-clothes, ribbed stockings, and shoes that creaked as he came forward to take the bills.”

  A Distinguished Provincial at Paris

• “Nor has it been without delectation that I have endued a new coat (snuff-brown, and with metal buttons), having all nether garments corresponding thereto.”

  The Heart of Mid-Lothian

• “He had on a snuff-brown coat, with a broad band of tinsel down the arms, and carried in his hand a large tail made of the caudal extremities of”

  Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa

• “Akadie, a thin long-armed man with an ill-assorted set of features-a big nose, sparse curls of snuff-brown hair, glassy blue eyes, a mouth continually trembling at the verge of a smile-was, like Glay, something of a misfit.”

  Trullion: Alastor 2262

• “He pressed a buzzer -- the snuff-brown secretary buzzer.”

  Fanny Herself

• “His secretary was a spare, middle-aged, anxious-looking woman in snuff-brown and spectacles; his stenographer a blond young man, also spectacled and anxious; his office boy a stern youth in knickers, who bore no relation to the slangy, gum-chewing, redheaded office boy of the comic sections.”

  Fanny Herself

• “Then the voice of the snuff-brown secretary summoned her.”

  Fanny Herself

• “Mrs. Taylor looked like a grenadier in a long snuff-brown coat and jaunty sailor hat as she descended from the buckboard without using the step.”

  The Fighting Shepherdess

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