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So a hat-cleaner who had been a friend of a king did not oppress me. "A new band?" asked Finch, with his dry, barren smile. "Yes," said I, "and half an inch wider." I had had a new band five days before. "I meets a man one night," said Finch, beginning his story "a man brown as snuff, with money in every pocket, eating schweinerknuckel in Schlagel's.
The pack of Cuban hounds that howl from Don José's kennels cannot snuff the trail of the stolen canoe that glides through the sombre blue vapors of the African's fastnesses. His arrows send no telltale reverberations to the distant clearing.
Tulliver, not diverted from his purpose by any sympathy with Mr. Riley's deficiency of ready cash. Mr. Riley took a pinch of snuff, and kept Mr. Tulliver in suspense by a silence that seemed deliberative, before he said, "I know of a very fine chance for any one that's got the necessary money and that's what you have, Tulliver.
In short, by its littleness, by its yellowness, by its appearance of dusty dryness, this singular physiognomy reminded me so strongly of a pinch of snuff, that I almost sneezed at sight of it. His diminutive green eyes were fringed with ragged flaxen lashes, and seemed to be very loose in their reddened lids, as if he could cry them out at the shortest notice.
He took the snuff my aunt offered, carefully dusting the excess off the collar of his brown velvet coat, and sat down, saying, as he took some papers from a silk bag, that it was altogether an interesting and curious question, this we had set before him. And why had we held this deed so long and said nothing?
We strew them like snuff in the faces of these diplomatists, and, while they are yet rubbing their weak eyes and crying out with pain, we shall quietly draw our little fish into our net, and take her home without opposition!" "And if the fish will not go into the net?" "It must go in!" impatiently cried Orloff.
Cried the donor, "That ain't no crochet-needle." "No? Well, what is it?" "It is a dipping-stick; don't you chaw snuff?"
This cannot be the common French snuff? "'Indeed it is only I doctor it in a particular manner. It is a secret I learned from a cardinal when I was at Rome. "'Ha! You have been to Rome? cried I. "'Yes, sir; I passed twenty years there. "'M. Louet, said Méry, 'since you do not smoke, you ought to tell these gentlemen the story of your thrush-hunt.
He understands music, for he was constantly saying Bravo! while other gentlemen were taking snuff, humming and hawing, and clearing their throats, or holding forth. I said to him, "How I do wish the Elector were only here, that he might hear me play! He knows nothing of me he does not know what I can do.
I am come to request him to order his scoundrelly myrmidons who have seized my carriage to give it up, so that I may continue my journey. If the laws bid me pay twelve hundred francs for seven ounces of snuff for my own private use, I renounce those laws and declare that I will not pay a farthing.
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