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  • He was rewarded by seeing Maggie let her work fall, and gradually get so absorbed in his wonderful geological story that she sat looking at him, leaning forward with crossed arms, and with an entire absence of self-consciousness, as if he had been the snuffiest of old professors, and she a downy-lipped alumna.

    II. First Impressions. Book VI—The Great Temptation 1917

  • Major were sartorial rivals, unless they had quarrelled over the question as to which of them wore the snuffiest old clothes.

    Miss Mapp 1903

  • He was rewarded by seeing Maggie let her work fall, and gradually get so absorbed in his wonderful geological story that she sat looking at him, leaning forward with crossed arms, and with an entire absence of self-consciousness, as if he had been the snuffiest of old professors, and she a downy-lipped alumna.

    The Mill on the Floss George Eliot 1849

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