sneaking

Example Sentences

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She had a tongue for the sneaping of too casual boys, and girls also.

From Hilda Lessways by Bennett, Arnold

Fair criticism on young prodigies and Rosciuses in verse, or on the stage, is arraigned,—                         as the envious sneaping frost   That bites the first-born infants of the spring.

From Literary Remains, Volume 1 by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

I am question'd by my fears, of what may chance Or breed upon our absence; that may blow No sneaping winds at home, to make us say, 'This is put forth too truly.'

From The Winter's Tale by Shakespeare, William

I hate alle sneaping and snubbing, flowting, fleering, pinching, nipping, and such-like; it onlie creates resentment insteade of penitence, and lowers ye minde of either partie.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. by Various

Berowne is like an envious sneaping frost That bites the first-born infants of the spring.

From Love's Labour's Lost by Shakespeare, William