But Mrs. Sydney Bamborough did not know Lady Mealhead, which may have accounted for the titled woman's little sniff of interrogation.

"Bake tart 'fore that boy goes away," the Chinaman muttered to himself, waddling hastily to the oven, opening it, and closing the door again with a satisfied sniff.

" Her emotion at finding herself among strangers was, however, only expressed by the tiniest occasional sniff, and presently the managing little body remarked: "Harriet, I must be put to bed.

Of course there are always some narrow-minded individuals to find fault, some "maiden" aunts "with spinster written on their brows," who will put up their gold-rimmed glasses with that peculiar sniff that invariably prefaces some extra sweet remarks, such as, "Dear me, how wicked!

" Her emotion at finding herself among strangers was, however, only expressed by the tiniest occasional sniff, and presently the managing little body remarked: "Harriet, I must be put to bed.

When he made his entry Major Talbot gave an audible sniff, glared at him, and seemed to freeze solid.

The cook, Bert, though he cast a startled glance at her would not have dared to speak, after that encounter of the morning, but a rather explosive sniff was too eloquent an appeal to his manliness.

" The farmer received this remark with a loud sniff, expressive of offended dignity.

" Argo gives a friendly sniff, and leaves him.

" The farmer received this remark with a loud sniff, expressive of offended dignity.

I took one long luxurious sniff, and then with a last effort I hoisted myself up and scrambled in over the low sill.

Mrs. Jennings gave a sort of laugh and a sniff mixed.

After three official sniffs he turned upon me aggressively.

His daughter stood watching him with grief in one eye and calculation in the other, and, just as he had put himself into a position to exercise his rights of free speech, gave a pathetic sniff and walked out of the room.

The stage-door keeper hesitated and was lost, and Van Bibber stepped into the unsuppressed excitement of the place with a pleased sniff at the familiar smell of paint and burning gas, and the dusty odor that came from the scene-lofts above.

[The "Voice that Breathed o'er Eden" is suddenly rendered by an organ and full choir: the remarks of two choristers (who are having a little difference over a hymn-book), and the subdued sniffs of MRS. MANDOLINE, being distinctly audible between the verses.

"Curse the subject!" said the young man aloud; "curse the picture, the devils, the saint" At this moment a short, sudden sniff uttered close beside him made the artist turn sharply round, and he now, for the first time, became aware that his labours had been overlooked by a stranger.

Miss Pilbeam put her handkerchief to her eyes and, with a suspicious little sniff, hurried from the room.

As he spoke there came a slight sound from behind him, the commotion of a body moving softly beyond the wall of spruce boughs, then a curious, suspicious sniffing, and after that a low whine.

Her ladyship turned upon her husband with a triumphant sniff and a knowing smile.

Then, after delicately sampling the atmosphere by a cautious sniff, he removed his helmet altogether.

And as yet there is no comforting sniff from the kitchen.

Miss Peckham had remarked with a contemptuous sniff.

Its nostrils, unlike those of every other bird, are at the tip of its beak, which is swollen and sensitive; and Dr. Buller says that as it wanders about in the night it makes a continual sniffing and softly taps the walls of its cage with the point of its bill.

As he spoke there came a slight sound from behind him, the commotion of a body moving softly beyond the wall of spruce boughs, then a curious, suspicious sniffing, and after that a low whine.