"Snuffle" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... not a nose snubbed at the extremity, gross, heavy, or carbuncled, or fluting. In all its magnitude of proportions, it was an intellectual nose. It was thin, horny, transparent, and sonorous. Its snuffle was consequential and its sneeze oracular. The very sight of it was impressive; its sound, when blown in school hours, was ominous. But the scholars loved the nose for the warning which it gave: like the rattle of the dreaded snake, which announces its presence, ...
— Jacob Faithful • Captain Frederick Marryat
... had finished his snuffle and lick at the Henry, came on at a dreadful pace, making nothing of those obstacles that balked me,—he had been born up there, you know. He laid himself out—I could see over my shoulder—like one of those American ...
— The Literary World Seventh Reader • Various
... in at the door, my Cousin Tom woke up with a great snuffle; and stared at me as if amazed, as ...
— Oddsfish! • Robert Hugh Benson
... "Oh, snuffle—do! and break your heart, you poor thing. Somebody fetch this sick doll a sugar-rag. Look you, Sir Jean de Metz, do you feel absolutely certain about ...
— Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc - Volume 1 (of 2) • Mark Twain
... how would he puff at a beggar—puff like the picture of the north wind in a spelling book! What a huge heavy purple face he had, as though all the blood of his body were stagnant in his cheeks! and then when he spoke, would he not growl and snuffle like a dog? How the parish would have hated him, but that the parish heard there was a Mrs. Whitlow; a small fragile woman, with a face sharp as a penknife, and lips that cut her words like scissors! and what a forlorn wretch was Whitlow with his head brought once a night to the ...
— History of English Humour, Vol. 2 (of 2) • Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange
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