maccaboy

The collar sits as high in the neck; the red silk handkerchief peeps out behind; the trousers are cut with the "full fall," over which hangs the watch fob-chain with its heavy seals; the low-crowned beaver hat has the same wide brim; and the silver snuff-box is still redolent of Scotch maccaboy.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 Various

"Sometime when youer passin 'by, I'd be mighty thankful ef you' ud fetch me some maccaboy snuff."

Mingo And Other Sketches in Black and White Joel Chandler Harris 1878

There was, however, in a gambrel-roofed house here and there, a decayed old gentlewoman, occupying a scrupulously neat room with just a suspicion of maccaboy snuff in the air, who had her meals sent in to her by the neighborhood -- as a matter of course, and involving no sense of dependency on her side.

An Old Town By the Sea Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1871

And Mrs. Perkins finished her speech with the largest pinch of maccaboy she could possibly hold between her thumb and forefinger.

The English Orphans Mary Jane Holmes 1866

Page view page image: snuff-box, and that teapot, the little black one, in the respective solaces of which the ills of life have found mitigation, and grief has been allayed of half its bitterness; the amelioration of maccaboy relieving the woes of widowhood, and sorrow finding cessation 'neath the softening influence of souchong.

Life and sayings of Mrs. Partington and others of the family 1854

Though his manners were somewhat boorish, he was always as neat as a new pin, and he took his snuff in a lordly way. like a man who knows that his snuff-box is always likely to be filled with maccaboy; so that when Mme. Vauquer lay down to rest on the day of M. Goriot’s installation, her heart, like a larded partridge, sweltered before the fire of a burning desire to shake off the shroud of Vauquer and rise again as Goriot.

Paras. 1–99 1917