10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SNIFFISHNESS»
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sniffishness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
sniffishness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
It is possible in America, as well as elsewhere, to detect a growing air of
sniffishness toward the pound of cure, together with an increased regard for the
ounce of prevention. This is true of progressive physicians and advanced
thinkers ...
Perhaps the most valuable asset that any man can have in this world is a
naturally superior air, a talent for sniffishness and reserve. The generality of men
are always greatly impressed by it, and accept it freely as a proof of genuine merit
.
George Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Mencken,
1919
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Prejudices: First Series
... high and mighty sniffishness) has been of any public usefulness.I sometimes
wonder what keeps such a man in the theater, breathing bad air nightly, gaping
at prancing imbeciles, sitting cheek by jowl with cads. Perhaps there is, at bottom,
...
Henry Louis Mencken,
1920
But he was free from any trace of the conventional masculine sniffishness toward
the jilted woman; instead, he visualized, more vividly than ever, the bitter
humiliation of Miriam's ordeal. "What a beastly thing it is," he revolted, "that a girl's
whole ...
Harold Hunter Armstrong,
1922
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The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine
It is possible in America, as well as elsewhere, to detect a growing air of
sniffishness toward the pound of cure, together with an increased regard for the
ounce of prevention. This is true of progressive physicians and advanced
thinkers ...
No sniffishness, please! John xiii. 14. "Of course I will, Mrs. Pither!" she said
instantly. They went up the narrow, rickety staircase, in which you had to bend
almost double at one place to avoid the overhanging ceiling. The bedroom was
lighted ...
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You Don't Say: Modern American Inhibitions
The voice of privilege and command of those days spoke often in a tone
controlled more by sniffishness than by manly love of the flag, or by the sense of
necessities of discipline, and nobody could have loved it. You will not eat our
food, wear ...
Grassi had been educated for a doctor (Heaven knows why) because he had no
sooner got his license than he set himself up in business as a searcher in
zoology. With a certain amount of sniffishness he always insisted: "I am a zoologo
—not ...
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The Gentleman's Magazine
... their old air of high-sniffishness, Tom would call out to me — " What was the
number of your last page ? " And I would reply — "A 45." Then there would be
silence. THE BULAWAYO OF TO-DAY. AT the present time there are ...
In postwar Boston, Brahmin sniffishness, the progress of crude Yankee
industrialists, and the electoral activity of the Irish led to a temporary and
superficial armistice. The Brahmins retreated from the odors of an increasingly
industrialized town, ...