Word: snuffs
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More than a thousand men, with rifles and shotguns, turned out. There were snuff-dipping, mackinawed men from the forests; ruddy, overalled farmers of sturdy Swiss stock; pale businessmen from the little towns. They stood in line, swore on the Bible...
...highway systems do not mesh, and the border country is mountainous, wild and miasmic in the low places. Yet Germany in Greece and Japan in Malaya have shown that an army with the will and equipment can traverse any kind of country, fighting as it goes. Up-to-snuff military men like General Hutton must have profited from their examples...
...pairs of shorts, eight pair of women's lace panties. In his pockets were: three knives, five pairs of dice, two pairs of scissors, five fountain pens, nine corks, a ring of keys, eight lead sinkers, twelve fish lines, 51 pencils, 14 marbles, one pecan, a box of snuff...
Physically, the Budenny specimen is still, at 58, superb. He rides like a trooper, fences without guards, can snuff out a candle with a revolver bullet at 40 paces. He has a voice like the roar of a breaking ice-jam. Manly to excess, he is a born leader in the medieval sense of the term...
...claimed to be heirs. They traced their family lines back to various different Wilson Stricklands who had migrated to Texas from the Southeast, tried to prove that their Wilson Strickland was the right one. As evidence they introduced 1,000 Bibles with family histories on the flyleaves, old letters, snuff boxes, muskets, a muzzle-loading shotgun, other heirlooms...