snuff-dipping

The South that she wrote about — the South of snuff-dipping poor whites, evasively sweet-talking Negroes, and sunken-eyed back woods prophets — was undergoing a dizzying transformation even as she (a contemporary and qualified admirer of Martin Luther King, Jr.) was writing about it on an electric typewriter.

Flannery O'Connor's Gifts Towers, Robert 1979

He was a dirty snuff-dipping Court House figure, famous all over the county for being rich, who wore high-top shoes, a string tie, a gray suit with a black stripe in it, and a yellowed panama hat, winter and summer.

AGoodManIsHardToFindAndOtherStories O'Connor, Flannery 1955

She took to the consolations of snuff-dipping and fell from her pink-and-white estate.

Judith of the Plains Marie Manning

Having followed our sable friends from grief to indignation, and from indignation to the charming amusement of snuff-dipping, we will enter the house and make acquaintance with its master.

Hubert's Wife A Story for You Minnie Mary Lee

It is chiefly a desire for physical sensation which causes snuff-dipping to be such a prevalent custom among black people.

The American Negro: What He Was, What He Is, and What He May Become: A Critical and Practical Discussion 1901

I want a scrubby, ornery, low-down, snuff-dipping, back-woodsy, piebald gang, who never heard of finger bowls or Ward McAllister, but who can get up a mess of hot cornbread and Irish stew at regular market quotations. '

Rolling Stones O. Henry 1886

Generally during church service, where the clergyman is a little prosy, snuff-dipping is indispensible.

My Southern Home: or, The South and Its People 1880

Page 68 wash-dish in the middle of the room, all gather around it, commence, snuff-dipping, and all using the wash-dish as a common spittoon.

My Southern Home: or, The South and Its People 1880

The ladies are not without their recreation, the most common of which is snuff-dipping.

My Southern Home: or, The South and Its People 1880

The vile practice of snuff-dipping prevails sometimes also among the wives and daughters of the Yeomanry, and even occasionally among otherwise intelligent members of the Southern Middle

Social relations in our Southern States, 1860