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Let's take in as much as youve done to the chief and either he'll be so impressed he'll put a stenographer to transcribing the rest or else " "Or else?" I prompted. "Or else he won't. Come on." Mr Le ffaçasé had apparently not stirred since last we were in his office. He opened his eyes, thumbed a pinch of snuff and asked Gootes, "Where the bloody hell is that stuff on the grass?"
Bradwardine, and begged Waverley would inform her whether his daughter, Miss Rose, was old enough to wear a pair of very handsome ear-rings, which she proposed to send as a token of her affection. The good lady also desired to be informed whether Mr. Bradwardine took as much Scotch snuff and danced as unweariedly as he did when he was at Waverley-Honour about thirty years ago.
Stuff and nonsense all these globes and powders, with all the other follies of the cabala and the spagyric art." I imagined I could hear him talk like that in the interval between two pinches of snuff, and I really did not know what to reply to such a Christian speech.
We all want in heaven to meet Voltaire with his very thin legs. But we cannot believe that those skinny shanks are to be immortal. We shall miss the snuff and the grease on Sam Johnson's collar. If an angel comes up neat and smiling and says "Permit me to introduce myself I am the great lexicographer," we shall say "Tell that to some other angel.
"Well?" I inquired. "Well," he continued slowly, "I lifted th' latch, an' give a push to the door, but it would only open a little way an inch, p'r'aps, an' stuck." Here he tapped, and opened his snuff-box. "Well?" I inquired again. "A boot!" I exclaimed. "A boot as ever was," nodded the Ancient, and took a pinch of snuff with great apparent gusto. "Go on," said I, "go on."
And Pierre, after momentarily ceasing to see them, was again embarrassed by the handkerchief which lay on the Pope's lap, and the dirty cassock soiled by snuff.
G. "Either by cephalic snuff or castle-building!" A. "Do you approve of castle-building as a frequent exercise?" G. "Life were not life without it! 'Give me the joy that sickens not the heart, Give me the wealth that has no wings to fly." A. "I reckon myself one of the best aërial architects now living, and nil me pænitet hujus."
By-the-bye, say, and further, I bequeath to him the bag of snuff presented to me by the Dey of Algiers; he may as well have the snuff as he has the snuff-box. Is that down?" "Yes, sir." "Well then, now, Peter, I must leave you something." "Oh, never mind me," replied I. "No, no, Peter, I must not forget my cousin. Let me see; you shall have my fighting sword. A real good one, I can tell you.
"Give me less comfort, that I may give my mother more; a little money, ever so little, and take it out of my board: I can do with one meal a day, sir." The bookseller was moved: he took a huge pinch of snuff out of his waistcoat pocket, and mused a moment. He then said, as he re-examined Philip: "Well, young man, I'll tell you what we will do.
"He is safe on the roof," he replied. "I have just seen him; he tells me that he heard the alguazils arrive, and that at first he thought he was betrayed, especially when the dog began to snuff under the door.
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