How To Use Snuffbox In A Sentence
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In 1834, a snuffbox was presented to Thomas Braidwood Wilson, (the township of Braidwood is named after him) for introducing honeybees into Tasmania.
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Many were small enough to fit into a watch or snuffbox.
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He had them play together, eat grapes, and gave them snuffboxes.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If you are not an insider, the Qing Dynasty snuffbox or the old watch might just be an archaized article produced last year.
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The Tsar gave him a diamond ring, Metternich a gold snuffbox.
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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
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If in the early eighteenth century snuffboxes were little known to the Russians, as the century progressed they made and bought them in notably larger numbers.
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Saturnino peaches are known as "tabacchiere" (snuffbox) in Italian.
Weekend Herb Blogging #190 Round-Up
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Another example of the English rococo style is the snuffbox recently promised to the Museum.
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As a collector his interests include European silver, gold snuffboxes, enameled portrait miniatures, and Italian mosaics.
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The Frenchman shrugged, removed a snuffbox from the pocket of his fashionable short-tailed jacket, and partook of the powdered tobacco with a noisy snort.
The Curse of the Wendigo
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His large green bijouterie was open on a vast display of snuffboxes, pictures, and trinkets.
THE DIAMOND
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The son of Nelson's secretary, who inherited the snuffbox, thought Nelson had given it to his secretary to show off in front of his new or soon-to-be paramour.
The Tchotchkes of Nelson and Churchill
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Many of these diplomatic snuffboxes were quickly returned to the firm, which bought them back at reduced cost, adapted them, and sold them again to the original purchasers.
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Or maybe Victorian snuffboxes with naughty watercolors inside the lid are more your speed?
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A grisaille snuffbox - you know it, Luc - and a perfume flagon with a gold collar.
ON A WICKED DAWN
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They were all missing small items - a Sèvres snuffbox, a gold bracelet, an amethyst brooch.
ON A WICKED DAWN
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Daniel withdrew a small enamel snuffbox from his inner coat pocket and retrieved from it a strip of paper, handing it to his mother.
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The pocket watch and snuffbox were of no interest to him, although he took them anyway to make it appear that Rosen had been robbed, but the thick wad of the ready Rosen was sporting was enough to keep him in relative comfort for a number of days.
Shameless
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Other rooms are all full of smoking paraphernalia, like cigar labels, snuffboxes, and pipes; ‘feminine’ articles, like handbags, fans, and combs; box-sized cutout paper theaters; and it goes on and on.
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Hearing which the neat, shining, dimpling little Advocate turned his bright eyes from one to the other of us, and tapped his tortoise-shell snuffbox with a kind of elvish joy.
The Dew of Their Youth
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The first examples of his new art appeared in 1884, in the form of gorgeously enamelled gold snuffboxes copied from 18th-century originals.
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After his death in 1789, the great horse's skeleton was mounted at the Royal Veterinary College in London, at least one hoof was turned into a snuffbox, and in several countries there are annual races called the Eclipse Stakes.
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The size was "snuffbox," or waistcoat pocket (capacious in 1790, see "School for Scandal," etc.,
Banbury Chap Books And Nursery Toy Book Literature
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Another example of the English rococo style promoted by Moser is the snuffbox recently promised to the Museum.
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I had a gentleman to wait upon me, a French friseur to dress my hair of a morning; I knew the taste of chocolate as by intuition almost, and could distinguish between the right Spanish and the French before I had been a week in my new position; I had rings on all my fingers, watches in both my fobs, canes, trinkets, and snuffboxes of all sorts, and each outvying the other in elegance.
The Memoires of Barry Lyndon
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Sometimes he wanted coal; sometimes bread and ale; and then Madame Bentley, sending her servant with a snuffbox in token of authority, got from the butteries at the expense of the college a great deal more of these commodities than the college thought that Dr. Bentley ought to require.
The Common Reader
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He dug into his pocket, pulling out the snuffbox.
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Thus do not drop a banknote into the collection plate, but a silk handkerchief or small silver snuffbox.
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Napoleonic Wars hero Horatio Nelson 1758–1805 once owned one of the items, a faux tortoise-shell snuffbox depicting a scene from a seaside Italian town on its lid.
The Tchotchkes of Nelson and Churchill
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I marveled at the rich photos and detailed copy—and desperately coveted that oval snuffbox with the plumed helmet on the lid.
Browser's Delight
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Why can't the widow get back her silver snuffbox that was stole?
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Their gifts include paper currency, pamphlets, manuscripts, snuffboxes, portrait busts, cartoons, medals, and coverlets, but most notable in terms of volume, prints.
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In addition to the chatelaine, a fan and a snuffbox were among the bibelots often carried by members of society.
