Rachel had chosen a snuff-brown dress of heavy silk to wear this night. From Wordnik.com. [Dearly Beloved] Reference
Akadie, a thin long-armed man with an ill-assorted set of features-a big nose, sparse curls of snuff-brown hair, glassy blue eyes, a mouth continually trembling at the verge of a smile-was, like Glay, something of a misfit. From Wordnik.com. [Trullion: Alastor 2262]
He pressed a buzzer -- the snuff-brown secretary buzzer. From Wordnik.com. [Fanny Herself] Reference
Then the voice of the snuff-brown secretary summoned her. From Wordnik.com. [Fanny Herself] Reference
And she had tied her hair with a snuff-brown ribbon which was very unbecoming to her. From Wordnik.com. [The Story Girl] Reference
She put them both away and instead brought out an ugly pattern of snuff-brown stuff, bought years before and never used. From Wordnik.com. [Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906] Reference
Mrs. Taylor looked like a grenadier in a long snuff-brown coat and jaunty sailor hat as she descended from the buckboard without using the step. From Wordnik.com. [The Fighting Shepherdess] Reference
Nor has it been without delectation that I have endued a new coat (snuff-brown, and with metal buttons), having all nether garments corresponding thereto. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Mid-Lothian] Reference
Herringbone may dress himself in a snuff-brown suit, with snuff-brown shirt and shoes: it skills not; the undiscerning public, occupied with grosser wants, passes by regardless on the other side. From Wordnik.com. [Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History] Reference
She wrote her letters on a fantastic variety of strangely coloured paper, pink and blue and snuff-brown, violet and green and grey, paper that was stamped with patterns like a napkin, or frilled like. From Wordnik.com. [Some Diversions of a Man of Letters] Reference
Chaboisseau, a little old person with powdered hair, wore a greenish coat and snuff-brown waistcoat; he was tricked out besides in black small-clothes, ribbed stockings, and shoes that creaked as he came forward to take the bills. From Wordnik.com. [Lost Illusions] Reference
Russians; he was neat about his linen and his clothing, wore white neckerchiefs and long-skirted coats of snuff-brown hue, but his noble blood made itself manifest notwithstanding; no one would have taken him for a priest's son or a merchant!. From Wordnik.com. [A Reckless Character And Other Stories] Reference
Half a century has elapsed since then, but the picture of the old man taking his walks about the place, in his closely-fitting snuff-brown cut-away coat, knee-breeches, broad-brimmed hat and silver - headed cane is distinctively fixed in my memory. From Wordnik.com. [Country Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago Personal recollections and reminiscences of a sexagenarian] Reference
Already he had accepted me as his friend; and when I looked at his great, snuff-brown first-mate's hand, with which he brought emphasis to his periods, within six inches of my nose, I wondered if, by any chance, he was as sudden in conceiving enmity against strangers. From Wordnik.com. [Roads of Destiny] Reference
His secretary was a spare, middle-aged, anxious-looking woman in snuff-brown and spectacles; his stenographer a blond young man, also spectacled and anxious; his office boy a stern youth in knickers, who bore no relation to the slangy, gum-chewing, redheaded office boy of the comic sections. From Wordnik.com. [Fanny Herself] Reference
The action commences at a point nearly coincident with the mean red of the luminous spectrum, where it gives a dull ash or lead color, while the most refrangible rays impress a ruddy snuff-brown, the change of tint coming on rather suddenly about the end of the blue or beginning of the violet rays of the luminous spectrum. From Wordnik.com. [History and Practice of the Art of Photography] Reference
Blankenship) up through several nondescript grades of mechanics and tradesmen to the professional men of the community, who wore tall hats, ruffled shirt-fronts, and swallow-tail coats, usually of some positive color-blue, snuff-brown, and green. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete] Reference
Alert and magnetic, dignified and charming, he stood in the full glow of the overhead chandelier, its light falling upon his snuff-brown coat with its brass buttons, pale-yellow waistcoat, and the fluff of white silk about his throat -- his grave, thoughtful face turned toward Kate as his nearest guest, his glance sweeping the crowded room as if to be sure that everybody was at ease; Malachi close behind awaiting his master's orders to further adjust the chair and reading-lamp. From Wordnik.com. [Kennedy Square] Reference
"What a withered, snuff-brown lot!. From Wordnik.com. [Foes] Reference
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