The old gentleman snapped down the lid of his snuffbox, and at the same moment felt a hand gripping him by the elbow.
"Hetty Wesley"
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
It took my fancy, for I thought it was a snuffbox.
"Her Mother's Secret"
Emma D. E. N. Southworth
But when I saw this splendid snuffbox-as I thought it was-I just said to myself I'd buy it, and carry it in my pocket, to have it always about me to remind me as I was getting to be a rich 'oman, and to take it out and make a show of it by offering of any one who might drop in a pinch of snuff, even if I never sniffed a sniff myself.
"Her Mother's Secret"
Emma D. E. N. Southworth