Snuff-box

"There's nothing like reading and writing," the Quiet Stockman broke in, with an earnestness that was almost startling; and as he sat that evening in the firelight poring over the "Cardinal's Snuff-box," I watched him with a new interest.

We of the Never-Never Jeannie Gunn 1915

The "Cardinal's Snuff-box"! and the only clue to the mystery, a fair knowledge of the alphabet learned away in a childish past.

We of the Never-Never Jeannie Gunn 1915

"Cardinal's Snuff-box" -- and pored over it with a strange persistence, that could not have been inspired by the book.

We of the Never-Never Jeannie Gunn 1915

Paper a Silver Snuff-box, made in the Shape of a little Book.

The Private Library What We Do Know, What We Don't Know, What We Ought to Know About Our Books Arthur Lee Humphreys 1905

Says the Pipe to the Snuff-box, I can't understand

The Social History of Smoking George Latimer Apperson 1897

Similar incidents occur in "Jack and his Snuff-box" in my _English

Celtic Fairy Tales Joseph Jacobs 1885

Fairy Tales_, No. xvii, "Jack and his Golden Snuff-box," _cf.

Indian Fairy Tales Joseph Jacobs 1885

The Chaplain, who waited upon him as a Maid would on a lardy-dardy woman of Fashion, handed my Gentleman a very tall stick with a golden knob at the end on't, and with this, and a laced handkerchief and a long cravat, which he had likely bought at Mechlin, and a Snuff-box in the lean little Paw that held not the cane, he looked for all the world like one of my

The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861

Both my Towels attended as evidences at the bar, -- but my Pocket-handkerchief, notwithstanding his uncommon forwardness to hold forth the banner of sedition, was thought to be a character of so mixed a complexion, as rendered it more decent for him to reserve his interference till my Snuff-box could be heard -- which was settled accordingly.

Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 01 Thomas Moore 1815

But I must now step home, for I expect the Gentleman78 about this Snuff-box, that Filch nimm'd two nights ago in the Park.

The Beggar's Opera 1728