Therefore the tobacco-box gives us a sensation of blueness. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Our youth, who was not unmoved on this occasion, received the pledge, which he acknowledged with the present of a tobacco-box bought for this purpose; and the two lads of the castle getting into the coach, were driven homewards, in a state of silent dejection. ❋ Unknown (2004)
When our gentlemen entered, the floor was occupied by two females and their gallants, who, in the performance of their exercise, lifted their legs like so many oxen at plough and the pipe of one of those hoppers happening to be exhausted, in the midst of his saraband, he very deliberately drew forth his tobacco-box, filling and lighting it again, without any interruption to the dance. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Nevertheless, he had the presence of mind required for pocketing the guinea, which was too good for his tobacco-box; and as one thing at a time was quite enough upon his mind, he probed away slowly, to be sure there was no hole. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
I went and leaned beside him, and presently offered him my tobacco-box. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Schoonhoven, giving an occasional grunt, as he shoveled a spoonful of Indian pudding into his mouth, — either as a sign that he relished the dish, or comprehended the story, — he called unto him his constable, and pulling out of his breeches-pocket a huge jackknife, dispatched it after the defendant as a summons, accompanied by his tobacco-box as a warrant. ❋ Unknown (2004)
His tobacco-box dropped at the same time from his pocket, which ❋ Unknown (2004)
I wanted what they had in actual use, such as a tobacco-box and pipe-sheath, and knives with carved handles and scabbards, and for three of these I offered 2.5 dollars. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)
One aimed a blow full at his heart; but the protecting power which watches over the great and good turned aside the hostile blade and directed it to a side-pocket, where reposed an enormous iron tobacco-box, endowed, like the shield of Achilles, with supernatural powers, doubtless from bearing the portrait of the blessed St. Nicholas. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Smoking is by no means a general practice; consequently the pipe and tobacco-box are not, as with the Japanese, a part of ordinary male attire. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)
Mark me, honest fellow, the man who wrongs thee shall suffer — ‘fore Gad he shall; thou shalt be fairly dealt with’ (this he said while in the act of pocketing a small silver tobacco-box, the most valuable article in the lot). ❋ Unknown (2003)
Well, — what dost thou think of it? said my father, speaking to Corporal Trim, as he reached his tobacco-box. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The first she presented me was a japanned iron tobacco-box, of gigantic size, out of which, I was told, the vestry had smoked at their stated meetings, since time immemorial; and which was never suffered to be profaned by vulgar hands, or used on common occasions. ❋ Unknown (2002)
All this I leave, as a rich mine, to be worked by future commentators; nor do I despair of seeing the tobacco-box, and the ❋ Unknown (2002)
There, too, was his tobacco-box; which proves that he was a rival smoker of Sir Walter ❋ Unknown (2002)
PROFOUND, and will envelope his subject in a cloud, his pipe and tobacco-box, those friends to cogitation deep, are close to him. ❋ John Trusler (N/A)
I had in my pockets the following sums of money: £25 in bank notes; 25 sovereigns; £4 16s. 6d. in silver, and 8d. in coppers; also a tobacco-box, a large pocket knife, and a silver watch and guard. ❋ Henry Woodcock (N/A)
It was sorrowful to behold how the fine gentleman began to fade back into a scarecrow while Mother Rigby shook the ashes out of the pipe and proceeded to replenish it from her tobacco-box. ❋ Various (N/A)
His tobacco-box dropt at the same time from his pocket, which Molly took up as lawful spoils. ❋ Bayard Tuckerman (N/A)
