23 Verbs to Use for the Word snuffing

And these," he added, taking snuff from a gold box, "are perhaps as potent spurs to action as the whims of a busybody or the gains of a house-keeping trader.

I's goin' to buy snuff.

The more delicate Highlander carries the snuff to his nose on a little shovel.

For the Frenchman had quite forgotten Dave's mishap in snuff-taking, and offered the snuff out of habitual complaisance.

The cabaret invites you to drink beer a la nation, and offers you lodging a la nationthe chandler's shop sells you snuff and hair powder a la nationand there are even patriotic barbers whose signs inform you, that you may be shaved and have your teeth drawn a la nation!

tempt Providence, want snuffing.

They split and cut his pens into a thousand fantastic shapes during a momentary absence; they filled his snuff with the most odious pulverulents.

The crowd of visitors were right near his cage, when he sniffed, and when he got the snuff into him, he began to heave his sides like a man who is preparing to sneeze, caught his breath a few times, and let out a sneeze that sounded like the explosion of an automobile tire.

The Icelander uses a small horn, like a powder-horn, to hold his snuff.

"You refused me a vacation when I asked for it," she said, "so I'm going to have it perforce;" and, playfully catching up the little dumpy figure of her governess, she carried her out upon the piazza, and, seating her in a large easy-chair, bade her take snuff, and comfort too, as long as she liked.

By repeated fermentations in preparing snuff, much of the nicotin is evaporated and lost.

The woman pushed away the snuff and stared at him.

When he entered, it seemed as if the candles suddenly required snuffing, and we ceased to laugh.

For so many proofs of the royal generosity, the beautiful countess, perhaps willingly, submitted to be called "the royal snuff-box," which appellation had its origin in the habit which the king fondly indulged in of strewing snuff on the countess's lovely shoulder, and then snuffing it up with his nose.

The box was very beautiful, and his mother and Beulah had often laughed at the major for using an article that was then deemed de rigueur for a man of extreme ton, when all his friends knew he never touched snuff.

"No, musheer," said Dave, "I can't use no snuff of late yeers.

THE HOLY FAIR Upon a simmer Sunday morn, When Nature's face is fair, I walkèd forth to view the corn, An' snuff the caller air.

Pa was a sight, with no shirt on, and he ought to have gone to the dressing room and slicked, but just then the camels and the giraffes, who had inhaled their snuff, began to sneeze and beg to be killed, and pa had to go over there and quiet them.

" Mr. Quince put down his hammer and, brushing a little snuff from his coat, leaned back in his chair and eyed them with grave confidence.

Men with turpentine clothes, or rags, on; women chewing snuff, etc., etc.

When they contain snuff, they should be soaked by themselves in lukewarm water two or three hours; they should be rinsed out and put to soak with the others in cold water for an hour or two; then washed in lukewarm water, being soaped as they are washed.

Now, my dear Sir George, I am not strait-laced,' the doctor continued, dusting the snuff from the lappets of his coat, 'and I know very well what your friend, my Lord March, would do in the circumstances.

Had you in your first definition of a cigar begun by saying that it is tobacco, rather than smoking-tobacco, you would have violated this principle; and you would have had to amplify the rest of your definition in order to exclude chewing-tobacco, snuff, and the like.

23 Verbs to Use for the Word  snuffing