In bygone times taking snuff was extremely popular, its palmy days in England being during the eighteenth century.
"England in the Days of Old"
William Andrews
Those were in truth the palmy days of the Westminster Review.
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind
The palmy days of the glorious spring-time of Hellenic vigour and genius in Miletus, Phocaea, and Rhodes, seemed to be reproduced even in inland places, which for 1500 years have returned to waste.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill