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. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876] Reference
"Sometime when youer passin 'by, I'd be mighty thankful ef you' ud fetch me some maccaboy snuff.". From Wordnik.com. [Mingo And Other Sketches in Black and White] Reference
And Mrs. Perkins finished her speech with the largest pinch of maccaboy she could possibly hold between her thumb and forefinger. From Wordnik.com. [The English Orphans] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [An Old Town By the Sea] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Life and sayings of Mrs. Partington and others of the family] Reference
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. Goriots 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. From Wordnik.com. [Paras. 199] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Father Goriot] Reference
"Kindly have it filled with maccaboy," he said. From Wordnik.com. [The Mississippi Bubble] Reference
"I reckon you hain't brung me my maccaboy snuff. From Wordnik.com. [Mingo And Other Sketches in Black and White] Reference
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