snift

Example Sentences

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Jest then I heerd a snift, like the coughin’ o’ a glandered hoss; an’ turnin’ suddintly round, I spied the biggest bar it hed ever been my luck to set eyes on.

From The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire by Reid, Mayne

Deed an' I wasn't goin' t' let yo' hab so much as a snift at it, Colonel!

From The Diamond Cross Mystery Being a Somewhat Different Detective Story by Steele, Chester K.

Dat make Little Hahsie dat huffy he fair snift agen.

From Old Hendrik's Tales by Vaughan, Arthur Owen

Is I likely to make de grass fly much a-workin’? or is I de sort o’ one to work at all if dere was any oder snift of a chance o’ scoff?’ ses he.

From Old Hendrik's Tales by Vaughan, Arthur Owen

I mean to say, when they snift they snift, and when they snuffle they—as it were—snuffle.

From Indiscretions of Archie by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)