10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SNIFFISHLY»
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sniffishly in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
sniffishly and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Reluctant Revolutionaries: New York City and the Road to ...
Smith, for instance, once sniffishly complained that Colden "lives cheaply and
retired at Flushing"; because of his "want of purse" and "spirit," the acting
governor did not comport himself with the "dignity" his office demanded. The
Livingstons ...
Joseph S. Tiedemann, 2008
2
The Performance of Politics: Obama's Victory and the ...
But as for talking to reporters ...the McCain campaign sniffishly says they must
first show “some level of respect and deference.” That is a peculiar response for
someone who is campaigning as one tough, transparent politician who can take
the ...
Jeffrey C. Alexander, 2010
The banquet isjust ending. [From within comes the sound of halfhearted mirth.]
PISO [Reaching for one of the goblets] Very thoughtful of you, Rufinius: I need it I
wasupall night with a confinement case. POLORUS [Somewhat sniffishly] Yes,
my ...
H. L. Mencken, George Jean Nathan, 2014
4
Mr. George Jean Nathan Presents
And the yokelry, thus persuaded that any mere hooligan might attend, remained
sniffishly away. Had the New Theatre let it be felt that no person unadorned with
a boiled shirt could enter, it would have been quite as impossible to get a seat at
...
5
The Best of "The Public Square".: Book two
The report is based on a sniffishly dismissive article in the Tablet (London) on
how the Pope manages to attract crowds of hundreds of thousands and even
millions all over the world. "The Pope believes in a powerful, visible, and
obedient ...
Richard John Neuhaus, 2001
6
The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays
When it is only this, we have the right, and the duty, to look sniffishly at starkness,
and relentlessness, and inevitability, to cock a skeptical eye at grimness. And I
am quite unable to overcome my belief that Ethan Frome enjoys its high ...
Lionel Trilling, Leon Wieseltier, 2008
Mother venomously retorts that Schubert's sonatas contain more forest hush than
the forest itself. They simply don't understand. With country butter and the fruit of
her womb, Mother, nose in air, sniffishly climbs back up the lonesome mountain.
8
Supergrow: Essays and Reports on Imagination in America
I deface the garden, Earth, with cigarette butts, billboards, beer cans. I pollute the
streams with uncycled wastes from my factory. Should I not then despise myself
as a rapist? Well, do what you like, answers Marshall McLuhan sniffishly, but you
...
9
The Motoring Age: The Automobile and Britain 1896-1939
... expense— he refers to 'stragglingvillages on whose outskirts pseudoTudor
villas stood sniffishly apart, amid their garages,their laurel shrubberies, and their
rawlooking lawns'. In Coming upforAir (1939) he places his hero, George
Bowling, ...
10
Studies in Classic American Literature
389:17 sniffishly Probably DHL's coinage. OED2 recognises only 'sniffingly', '
sniffily' (the latter first used 1900) and 'sniffish' (from 1933). 389:18 Edison
inventions ... patent foods. Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) patented more than
1,000 ...
D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey, 2003
