To his delight the animal did not seem to pay any attention to him, though raising its head several times to sniff the air suspiciously.

" Dorothy sniffed contemptuously at my last words, but deigned to sit down beside the other women.

"Say, that smells good, Billie, old girl," and he sniffed hungrily at the stew.

He bent to the black hole and sniffed cautiously.

No sooner had the new-comer crossed the threshold than he stopped, sniffed audibly, and exclaimed, "Hullo!

Abe sniffed disdainfully, contemplating her homely countenance, over which this morning's mood had cast a not unlovely, transforming glow.

" "Charge!" sniffed Miss Lavinia scornfully.

In another moment Jasper appeared with his head stretched forward, sniffing the air curiously, and looking in a frightened way at Ralph.

Dorothy began to sniff ominously, and Gladys spoke longingly of the fathers possessed by other girls.

Then Eleemos, dozing away in the winter sunshine, would hear an unusual racket in the scrub behind him,some heavy animal brushing about heedlessly and sniffing loudly at a cold trail.

" Anne tilted up her nose and sniffed delicately.

He merely sniffed at the term and went on to disparage the little friends of Patricia.

But he sniffed derisively, and flung over his shoulder: "To hear you goin' on, anybody'd think the Jesuits were the only Christians.

As this admonition was accompanied with a threatening gesture, and uttered with a savage aspect, the little boy rubbed his face harder, and between alternately sniffing and choking, gave no further vent to his emotions.

"Why, are you moving, mother?" Mrs. Green sniffed sadly and shook her head.

I think of these facts and think of Baudelaire's prose poem, that poem in which he tells how a dog will run away howling if you hold to him a bottle of choice scent, but if you offer him some putrid morsel picked out of some gutter hole, he will sniff round it joyfully, and will seek to lick your hand for gratitude.

When Kazan and Gray Wolf sniffed carelessly at the strong scents of the beaver city, Broken Tooth was marshaling his family, and two of his sons and their families, for the exodus.

Mr. Hatchard sniffed critically.

She sniffed haughtily as she spoke of "that Nugent lot"; and the manner in which she promised Mr. Smith that he should not lose by his services would have graced a duchess.

Feebly he sniffed the newcomer.

He sniffed it gingerly at first and licked the forehead with his red lolling tongue.

Among these white and grey and black heaps he picked his way, sniffing hastily here and there.

Bondsman trotted over to it, watched a rancher and his wife alight, sniffed at them incuriously, and trotted back to the office.

Many times, in the early spring, when foxes are mating, and again later when they are heavy with young and incapable of a hard run, I have caught my hounds trotting meekly after a mother fox, sniffing her trail indifferently and sitting down with heads turned aside when she stops for a moment to watch and yap at them disdainfully.

And while Bull, quaking, expected to see the head torn from the shoulders of the child, Diablo pointed his ears and sniffed the fist of the boy inquisitively.