КНИГИ НА АНГЛИЙСКИЙ ЯЗЫКЕ, ИМЕЮЩЕЕ ОТНОШЕНИЕ К СЛОВУ «SNIFFILY»
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So they waited till dark, and then the Leopard heard something breathing sniffily
in the starlight that fell all stripy through the branches, and he jumped at the noise
, and it smelt like Zebra, and it felt like Zebra, and when he knocked it down it ...
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Pevsner: The Early Life: Germany and Art
He remembered them, slightly sniffily, as living in 'one ofthose innumerable little
red brick houses lining in terraces the streets of that part of Hampstead as the
streets of so many other English suburbs'.14 (In his London guide of 1952, he
said, ...
John's face was scarlet, but Sister Susan said sniffily : " They will none of them
measure up to him in goodness." ' ' I know, ' ' and again her eyes went up to his;
and again he wondered and reddened. " Winifred, why not tell Asa yourself ?
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The Fair Dominion: A Record of Canadian Impressions
It 's a cat,' one of them said sniffily ; ' you shoot it off elephants.' I said that I knew
Anglo-Indians who went after tigers on foot, and I also argued that even in the
case of shooting from elephants the combination of a charging tiger and a restive
...
Robert Ernest Vernède, 1911
... Allen Kander, emerging from within and his cocktails, tracked back and across
my porcelain yellow rug. The opening of hospitalities proved rather unfortunate;
for, offering cigarettes to McGeorge's companions, they declined sniffily to smoke.
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The writings in prose and verse of Rudyard Kipling
So they waited till dark, and then the Leopard heard something breathing sniffily
in the starlight that fell all stripy through the branches, and he jumped at the noise
, and it smelt like Zebra, and it felt like Zebra, and when he knocked it down it ...
Rudyard Kipling, Charles Wolcott Balestier, 1903
... built bridges and things, and pored over insects and — John James sniffily
reviewed the great works of the earth and 790 VOLTE FACE.
Casterline and her daughter Minnie, from over on the South pike, as they came
driving in, though she seemed to be looking directly toward them, causing those
ladies to remark sniffily a little later that Lucyanna Prince was getting too stuck up
...
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The Kipling Reader for Elementary Grades
I said that your mother said that you were to scoop me out of my shell," said Slow-
and-Solid. "What will happen if I do?" said the Jaguar most sniffily and most
cautious. "I don't know, because I've never been scooped out of my shell before;
but I ...
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The Fabric of America: How Our Borders and Boundaries Shaped ...
In 181 1, the New York City commissioners appointed to map Manhattan's growth
looked at Washington's street plan, which they sniffily described as "those
supposed improvements, by circles, ovals, and stars which certainly embellish a
plan, ...
НОВОСТИ, В КОТОРЫХ ВСТРЕЧАЕТСЯ ТЕРМИН «SNIFFILY»
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sniffily в контексте приведенных ниже новостных статей.
Visa bungle passport to ridicule
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So over: The intolerant guest
And then there's that one mother who rather sniffily takes in the spread of M&Ms, etc, and announces that little Saidhbh can't eat anything with an E number, that ... «Irish Independent, Июл 15»
Commodore's Amiga turns 30 - here are its 10 best games ever
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WMN opinion: David Cameron gives Cornwall a chance it must not …
So our advice to Cornwall is not to look sniffily at Mr Cameron's offerings and complain at what is not there, but to take him at his word, put in the groundwork to ... «Western Morning News, Июл 15»
China Rich Girlfriend maps a rarified social circle of serious affluence
The narrative includes a cast of other moneyed Hong Kongers and Singaporeans: numerous "boldface-name socialites", entitled progeny, sniffily snobby ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Июл 15»
Ryanair is finally selling its Aer Lingus stake to IAG
'We wish IAG well with their takeover of Aer Lingus,' O'Leary said, rather sniffily, before some classic posturing. 'When Ryanair first bid for Aer Lingus in late ... «Management Today, Июл 15»
African team embark on long road to the top
one commentator asked, rather sniffily. No one predicted his victory, or his capacity to set a world record — and they certainly did not imagine that his gold medal ... «The Times, Июл 15»
At Large: It's more than the writing that's on the walls for Glasgow
When other cities such as Detroit used murals to conceal some of the worst aspects of urban decline, critics rather sniffily described it as akin to putting bright red ... «Herald Scotland, Июн 15»
Weapons Trade: Sleazy does it
Usefully, the documents from the 1960s are pretty open about how it works — and give a comic view of British hypocrisy, where officials talk sniffily about ... «Morning Star Online, Июн 15»
OPINION: Ease up on the outrage, Facebookers
... as some sniffily still choose to say) and the horrible things this Republican did or that Democrat said or, of course, the anti-feminist propaganda in the newest ... «MyCentralJersey.com, Июн 15»
