10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SNUFFINESS»
Discover the use of
snuffiness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
snuffiness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Wesleyan Sunday-school magazine [afterw.] The Wesleyan ...
The general snuffiness of a snuffy dominie — and a large proportion of the older
ones snuff — is, □sometimes, absolutely loathsome ; and genteel children are
apt to shrink from contact with him. Nor is such slovenliness confined to poor, ...
2
Nix's Mate: An Historical Romance of America (Complete)
Her eyes were small and light green; her nose, buried in her cheeks, showed its
whereabout more fromits snuffiness than from itsextreme beauty of outline. Her
hair wasvery red, and could not be made smooth by anyknown art ofthe barber's.
3
Memoirs of a Superfluous Man
Everyone in those days subscribed tacitly to a pretty fairly uniform code of morals,
but there was a snuffiness about the ostentatious pieties and moralities of those
concerned in the Beecher-Tilton imbroglio which made it impossible to take their
...
... and had sold a Missal for twice that amount to some American collector; and
they got a hazy notion that the old man must be well-to-do—despite his
snuffiness and shabbiness, and that his queer old shop, in the window of which
there was ...
J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher, 2012
5
The Life of William Morris
you an idea of his dirt and snuffiness.” [The rest of the letter is lost.] A week later
he writes again, with reference to some criticism which Price had made on the
poem. “It was not at sermon-time that I thought of the 'Kisses,' but as the second ...
John William Mackail, 2001
... whole face reminded me of yEneas Rait's, compressed, and well buttressed
out into broadness), with a tendency to pot-belly, and snuffiness: from these hints
you can construe him ; the best Socinian Philosophist going, but not a whit more.
Thomas Carlyle, Charles Eliot Norton
... and had sold a Missal for twice that amount to some American collector; and
they got a hazy notion that the old man must be well-to-do—despite his
snuffiness and shabbiness, and that his queer old shop, in the window of which
there was ...
The exquisite reality of the whole, — the character of Calchas, his snuffiness, —
the snuff not being taken in that noisy conspicuous way which belongs to tho
English stage, but in a corner, as it were, in a greasy comfortable enjoyment, - —
his ...
9
The Collected Letters of William Morris, Volume I: 1848-1880
... some very pretty colouring on a corbel, in very good pres— ervation: the
parson of the parish shewed us over this Church; he was very civil and very, very
dirty and snuffy, inexpressibly so, I can't give you an idea of his dirt and snuffiness
.
William Morris, Norman Kelvin, 2014
10
Saint Pauls [afterw.] The Saint Pauls magazine, ed. by A. ...
The exquisite reality of tho v/hole, — tho character of Calchas, his snuffiness, —
the snuff not being taken in that noisy conspicuous way which belongs to tho
English stage, but in a corner, as it wero, in a greasy comfortable enjoyment, —
his ...
