snuff-boxes

He had a comic foundation under a tragic exterior, he asked nothing better than to frighten you, very much like those snuff-boxes which are in the shape of a pistol.

Les Miserables 2008

And there are illuminating examples of numerous types of hardstone in their natural and polished states, as well as a complete 18th-century series of gold-mounted snuff-boxes in different hardstones.

Intricate Objects, From 2008

I gave him half a piece of fine white baft, five bottles of powder, two looking-glasses, and two snuff-boxes.

The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805 2008

Clotilde de Rupt, at this time five-and-thirty, and as good as widowed, with a husband who turned egg-cups in every variety of wood, who set his mind on making wheels with six spokes out of iron-wood, and manufactured snuff-boxes for everyone of his acquaintance, flirted in strict propriety with Amedee de Soulas.

Albert Savarus 2007

About a score of new books lay on the writing-table, deposited there apparently during the day, together with prints, music, snuff-boxes of the

A Distinguished Provincial at Paris 2007

Clotilde de Rupt, at this time five-and-thirty, and as good as widowed, with a husband who turned egg-cups in every variety of wood, who set his mind on making wheels with six spokes out of iron-wood, and manufactured snuff-boxes for everyone of his acquaintance, flirted in strict propriety with Amedee de Soulas.

Albert Savarus 2007

For instance, the stealing of pocket-handkerchiefs or snuff-boxes may or may not be vicious; but if we, who have not the wit, or will not take the trouble to decide the question ourselves, want to hear the real rights of the matter, we should not, surely, apply to a pickpocket to know what he thought on the point.

The Paris Sketch Book 2006

He escaped from his kidnapper, after, as MacGregor alleged, robbing his portmanteau of some clothes and four snuff-boxes.

Rob Roy 2005

He cannot withstand the charms of a toyshop; snuff-boxes, watches, heads of canes, etc., are his destruction.

Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

Four watches, rings, snuff-boxes, seven-and-forty pounds overhead in gold.

Lay Morals 2005