snuff-blown

Updated: June 21, 2025

Then followed the choir a living study in evil countenances perfunctory, careless, snuff-blown and ill-shaven, with cold hard faces like Inquisitors. All the while the great bell was booming overhead, and the whole atmosphere seemed to vibrate with sound and emotion.

Henry Seton Merriman - The Velvet Glove

In the entrance-hall, a broad-built little man stood awaiting her. He was stout and red, with hair all ragged at the temples, almost white. His eyes were lost behind shaggy eyebrows. His face was made broader by little whiskers stopping short at the level of his ear. He had a snuff-blown complexion, and in the wrinkles of his face the dust of a dozen campaigns seemed to have accumulated.

Henry Seton Merriman - Barlasch of the Guard