It was a good story, but the room was very cold, and even the pleasure of snubbing an intrusive young man did not make amends for the lack of warmth.

In her delight and intoxication at having her lover near her again, more fascinating and lover-like than ever, Tony lost her head a little, neglected her work, snubbed her friends, refused invitations from Dick and Cousin Félice, and indeed from everybody except Alan.

"Yes, and you are laughing, and not snubbing a fellow so dreadfully as you generally do.

"But it's difficult to snub a person who's saved your life and lent you money and found your gold bag.

She wished Christabel would snub that appalling bounder, Black, as he deserved.

" "'Cause, ef you does, I jes' want to say I's been down a-lookin' at her, and she ain't even snubbed her bowsprit.

And then she went clattering among tinware and crockery, and snubbed the gentlemanly boy in a sort of tender Billingsgate.

LORD ADVOCATE snubs CAMPBELL, and he momentarily resumes his seat.

Dundas, indeed, was half inclined to snub Carleton.

Johnson loved little children, calling them "little dears," and cramming them with sweetmeats, though we regret to add that he once snubbed a little child rather severely for a want of acquaintance with the Pilgrim's Progress.

They snubbed Clerambault, on the principle that intelligence should be at the service of the proletariat ... "Dienen, dienen ..." which was the last word even of the proud Wagner.

She snubbed Harry Clifford and the whole set of dandies like him, so that, though they danced, and talked, and laughed with her, they never crossed a certain line of propriety which she had drawn between them.

She thought she had learned enough to be safe from any risk of repeating the hideous Aaronson mistake; yet she now saw she had blundered again in distinguishing Claud Walsingham Popple while she almost snubbed his more retiring companion.

Mightn't it be something else?" I should have snubbed his persistent conversation but for the drawn anxiety of his face.

But Tom could not forget that snub a couple of years before, when he was selling papers on a Broadway car.

"I wish I could make myself enjoy snubbing the extraordinary creature," she went on, as she ate her dinner, throwing an occasional sentence concerning the scenery, or, as a last resort, the weather, to her chastened companion.

"If we were to snub Jim Denton he would make a lot of trouble for us.

She was certainly not a snob, as witness the fact that she had openly snubbed a certain grand duke, not for his immoralities, which she declared afterwards were nobody's business, but because of his insufferable stupidity.

He then climbed down and snubbed the free end of the rope to a small tree, and began taking in his slack.

" Having thus snubbed the Force, the old soldier turned his back on them and went home, where Grace met him, all anxiety, and received his report.

Mealy Jones would have snubbed the Pratt girl if she had caught him thus, but Piggy gave her a wink that made her his partner.

She had not risen to giving a couple of fingers to a person whom she considered her inferior; but she was inclined to snub Mr. Hammond as rather a presuming young man.

But it was extraordinary that Mrs. Lavington had cast off her usual primness, and seemed to-night, for the first time in her life, in an exuberant good humour, which she evinced by snubbing her usual favourite Honoria, and lavishing caresses on Argemone, whose vagaries she usually regarded with a sort of puzzled terror, like a hen who has hatched a duckling.

She was continually snubbing her husband before people.

She snubbed Jane, and Jane, in her irritating and nonchalant way, was rude to her.