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snuff-box
ˈsnuff-box [snuff n.3 1.] 1. a. A box for holding snuff, usually small enough to be carried in the pocket.1687 Miége Gt. Fr. Dict. ii, A Snuff-box, une Tabatiere. 1707 Refl. upon Ridicule 207 The Snuff-boxes she has in Pockets, and the Profusion she makes of Snuff. 1711 ‘J. Distaff’ Char. Don Sachev...
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The Emperor's Snuff-Box
The Emperor's Snuff-Box is a non-series mystery novel (1942) by mystery novelist John Dickson Carr. The detective is psychologist Dr. The novel takes place in France and concerns a jeweled snuff-box in the shape of a pocket watch said to have belonged to Napoleon.
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snuff-box
snuff-boxn small, usu decorative, box for holding snuff 鼻烟盒(通常为有装饰的) She collects snuff-boxes. 她收集鼻烟盒.
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Snuff Box (TV series)
Snuff Box (sometimes referred to as Berry & Fulcher's Snuff Box) is a British dark sitcom set in London. Starring and written by Matt Berry and Rich Fulcher with additional material by Nick Gargano, it aired on BBC Three in 2006. The series was directed by Brass Eye director Michael Cumming who late...
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Bagombo Snuff Box
Bagombo Snuff Box is a collection of 23 short stories written by Kurt Vonnegut. The stories were originally published in US periodicals between 1950 and 1963, and consisted of virtually all of Vonnegut's previously published short fiction of the 1950s and 60s that had not been collected in 1968's We...
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Jack and His Golden Snuff-Box
Jack and His Golden Snuff-Box is a Romani fairy tale collected by Joseph Jacobs in English Fairy Tales. He met his father on the way, and his father gave him a golden snuff-box, to open only when he was in danger of death.
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thumbful
thumbful (ˈθʌmfʊl) [f. thumb n. + -ful.] As much as a thumb can hold.1930 E. Pound XXX Cantos xxii. 109 He..pulled out his snuff-box, And sniffed up a thumb-full. 1957 [see riffle v. 3 b].
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Parliamentary snuff box
The parliamentary snuff box is a wooden snuff box at the door of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom where snuff is stored for use by Members of Parliament. It originated after 1694 when smoking was banned in the House of Commons. It is the responsibility of the Principal Doorkeeper to ensure...
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maccoboy
maccoboy (ˈmækəbɔɪ) Also 8 macabao, macauba, 9 maccaboy, maccubau, mac(c)ouba, mackabaw, Sc. macabaa, -baw, maccaba(w. [Named from Macouba, a district in Martinique.] A kind of snuff, usually scented with attar of roses.1740 Wimble's List of Snuffs in Fairholt Tobacco (1859) 269 Macabao. 1799 Hull A...
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roderigo
† roderigo Obs.—1 [A Spanish personal name.] Some kind of snuff.a 1704 T. Brown Dial. Dead Wks. 1711 IV. 34 As long as I could..have my Diamond Snuff-box full of Orangeree or Roderigo.
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James Gwim
Around 1755, Gwim left Dublin for London where he was employed as a designer of snuff-box lids at the Battersea Enamel Works which was managed by John
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Oncoba spinosa
Oncoba spinosa, the snuff-box tree, fried egg tree or fried-egg flower, is a plant species in the genus Oncoba.
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Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier
covered their internal walls; he designed the furniture and the candlesticks, the silver and the decanters for the table; he was as ready to produce a snuff-box
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The Red King and the Witch: Gypsy Folk and Fairy Tales
Pate
Jankyn and the Witch
Sylvester
The Red King and the Witch
The Old Soldier and the Mischief
The Riddle
It All Comes To Light
Jack and His Golden Snuff-Box
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Henry Harland
He finally achieved a wide readership with The Cardinal's Snuff-box (1900), which was followed by The Lady Paramount (1901) and My Friend Prospero (1903 Yellow Book, An Illustrated Quarterly, Vol. 2, July 1894
Grey Roses (1895)
The Yoke Of The Thorah (1896)
Comedies and Errors (1898)
The Cardinal's Snuff-Box
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