When they talk'd of their Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff,

He shifted his trumpet and only took snuff.

Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774): Retaliation. Line 145.

Cowards [may] fear to die; but courage stout,

Rather than live in snuff, will be put out.

Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618): On the snuff of a candle the night before he died.—Raleigh's Remains, p. 258, ed. 1661.

Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain,

And the nice conduct of a clouded cane.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): The Rape of the Lock. Canto iv. Line 123.