Looking for sentences and phrases with the word snuff-box? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
A corpulent figure was silhouetted in the doorway leading to the sitting room, balancing an enameled snuff-box on his palm.
Examples from Classical Literature
He shrugged and produced his snuff-box with an offensive simulation of nonchalance.
Uncle Levi made a snuff-box that should be a puzzle to his friends to open.
After the usual inquiry of whence and whither, his monkship offers the snuff-box.
At last, driven into a corner, he took his snuff-box from his pocket.
I took out my snuff-box, and opening it offered her a pinch.
The merchant agrees and the Idol gives him back his snuff-box.
Likewise, I came to carry a snuff-box, and to consume in secret huge quantities of rappee.
The centenarian accepted with the air of a grandee, and extended his horn snuff-box.
He politely tendered his open snuff-box, of which I partook, experimentally.
She threw a glance at the snuff-box bearing Mamma's portrait and sighed.
What time had folk like these for powder-puff or ruffle, for fan or jeweled snuff-box?
Also an antique brass snuff-box inlaid with mother-of-pearl turned up but little injured.
Father Esteban drew a snuff-box from his pocket, and a large handkerchief.
But come out now, and look at this portentous lower jaw, which seems like the long narrow lid of an immense snuff-box, with a hinge at one end, instead of one side.
Rigg, and had taken out his snuff-box and tapped it, but had put it again unopened as an indulgence which, however clarifying to the judgment, was unsuited to the occasion.
All the head that I saw the monster possessed of was one of those Hessian canteens which resemble a large snuff-box with a hole in the middle of the lid.
