How To Use snuffbox In A Sentence
- In 1834, a snuffbox was presented to Thomas Braidwood Wilson, (the township of Braidwood is named after him) for introducing honeybees into Tasmania.
- Many were small enough to fit into a watch or snuffbox.
- He had them play together, eat grapes, and gave them snuffboxes.
- Wise as he is, Dupin had intentionally left his snuffbox at the Minister's apartment, using this as an excuse to return there the next day and continued the conversation they had begun the day before.
- Similarly, when 18th century society was gripped by the snuff craze, valuable gold snuffboxes were an important way for the very wealthy to publicly demonstrate that they were not only highly fashionable, but also incredibly well-off.
- In a lengthy codicil of 1854, Carl Mayer had specified as heirlooms for Mayer Carl his ‘Ancient coins and modern medals in my iron chest’ and his collection of cameos, while his antique timepieces and snuffboxes were to be divided by lot.
- The magnificent snuffbox in Plate V, ordered by the Foreign Office in 1821 for presentation to the South American revolutionary leader Simon Bolivar, did not make its way back to Ludgate Hill.
- If you are not an insider, the Qing Dynasty snuffbox or the old watch might just be an archaized article produced last year.
- The Tsar gave him a diamond ring, Metternich a gold snuffbox.
- Playing-cards, snuffboxes, and fringed gloves elbowed a shelf of books, and a full-bottomed wig ogled a lady's headdress of ribbon and malines. Audrey
