"Snigger" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the men began to snigger. ''E seems to 'ave got 'isself into a bit of a fog,' remarked Crass in a loud whisper to Slyme, ...
— The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists • Robert Tressell
... should not soon have got tired of watching them and listening to the little treble buzz of voices that went on, but I was interrupted. Just in front of me I heard what I can only call a snigger. I looked down, and saw four heads supported by four pairs of elbows leaning on the window-sill and looking up at me. They belonged to four boys who were standing on the twigs of a bush that grew up against the wall, and who seemed to be very much amused. Every now and again one of them nudged ...
— The Five Jars • Montague Rhodes James
... a second or two before the horror of the situation dawned on him. That dawn must have been reflected on his face, for his fellow-passenger began to snigger. ...
— The Return of the Prodigal • May Sinclair
... contemptuous to snigger mouldy faded the book-binder he took an aversion to me it does not smell nice ...
— Le Petit Chose (part 1) - Histoire d'un Enfant • Alphonse Daudet
... You know how impressive caste's quiet is! But, JAMRACH! O JAMRACH! Woe's stretched on no sham rack Of metre that mourns you sincerely; E'en that hard nut o' natur, the great Alligator, Has eyes that look red, and blink queerly. Mere "crocodile's tears," some may snigger; but jeers Must disgust at a moment so doleful. For JAMRACH the brave, who has gone to his grave, All our sorrow's ...
— Punch, Volume 101, September 19, 1891 • Francis Burnand
... behaviour was unsurpassable. For his case, if you like, was desperate. I tell you he had seen the effect of his Tudor hall and drawing-room. He had been watching; and nothing, not a murmur, or a furtive snigger, not the quiver of an eyelash, had escaped him. And consider what it meant to him. In a furious climax of expenditure he had achieved the arresting spectacle of his house in Mayfair, and his first night, his house-warming, was turning under his eyes into a triumph for the Thesigers' manners ...
— The Belfry • May Sinclair
... it made me snigger, but I straightened up and answered as well as I could: "I'm especially fond ...
— Laddie • Gene Stratton Porter
... the coloured folk were in Jamaica, when, stranded in their beautiful island, I did them the honour to go as a "walk-foot buccra" round the sugar plantations from Ewarton to Montego Bay. Even poor ragged fellows, living in utter misery, would laugh and snigger at me when not observed, and crack jokes at the foreigner who was well-fed, well-clad, and well-mounted in a way you would think to excite envy rather than derision. But Chinese laughter seems to be moved by different springs from ...
— An Australian in China - Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma • George Ernest Morrison
... snigger; some simper; In the youth where we laughed, and sang. And they may end with a whimper But we will end ...
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton • Maisie Ward
... said Tom, adding in a low voice with a snigger, "I did kill it after all. Dad thinks no one can ...
— The Mahatma and the Hare • H. Rider Haggard
... were given in a portentous stage aside which we were not supposed to hear. They caused Scroope to snigger and Charles to grin, but in me they raised a ...
— The Ivory Child • H. Rider Haggard
... said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry your Highness ...
— The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
... she answered. 'But in that case you must leave me alone with him, because I shall probably weep gallons of tears, and you'll only snigger ...
— The Explorer • W. Somerset Maugham
... fancy," said Quinby, with a peculiarly aggressive specimen of the nasal snigger of which enough was made in a previous chapter, but of which Quinby ...
— No Hero • E.W. Hornung |
