snuff-bottle

I think it's lovely to have just a few beautiful things, whether they are old, like your snuff-bottle or my goblets, or modern perhaps a carving or weaving.

Diego my dead bat, personal 'loot' from Hawaii, a week of poor health and 'small pleasures' Elizabeth McClung 2009

I'm so glad that little snuff-bottle found its way to you, because you find it beautiful.

Diego my dead bat, personal 'loot' from Hawaii, a week of poor health and 'small pleasures' Elizabeth McClung 2009

Sometimes, however, we felt like remonstrating with the mothers who gave their children sticks from the family snuff-bottle, and taught them the disgusting habit.

The Great South; A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland 1875

Page 775 carried some bundle of household gear; the mother usually bore a basket containing a ham, some coarse corn-bread, and, mayhap, a package of fruit, as well as the snuff-bottle; and the father bore the family rifle, its long barrels weather-stained and rusty.

The Great South; A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland 1875

Mrs. Wood seized her snuff-bottle and plunged a stick vigorously into the contents, and, as the miller showed no disposition to skirmish, she continued:

St. Elmo 1872

Mrs Wood seized her snuff-bottle and plunged a stick vigorously into the contents, and, as the miller showed no disposition to skirmish, she continued:

St. Elmo. A Novel. Augusta Jane 1867

Next, everybody takes from a purse, suspended at his girdle, a little snuff-bottle, and mutual pinches accompany such phrases as these: "Is the pasturage with you rich and abundant?"

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 451 Volume 18, New Series, August 21, 1852 Various 1841

-- chew one end of the brush until it becomes soft and pliant, then dab the same while still wet with saliva into the snuff-bottle, and immediately stick it back into the mouth again with the fine particles of snuff adhering; then proceed to mop the gums and teeth adroitly, to suck, and chew, and spit to your heart's content.

Social relations in our Southern States, 1860