50 examples of snivelling in sentences

Nay, do't, and do't handsomly too, not with a snivelling Countenance, as if you were compell'd to't; but with the face of Authority, and the awful command of a Husbandor thou dyest.

No more gloom, no more bans and damnings of Holy Church, no more groaning and snivelling in damp cloister and mildewed chapel, no more burnings and hangings and rackings" "Yet," said Beltane, shaking his head, "yet would kings and dukes remain, Christian knights and godly lords to burn and hang and rack the defenceless.

I covered his face, and got up strong enough to assault two other privates who had found my snivelling funny.

or do I like a snivelling boy go to my school to learn history and understand the books which I did not understand before, and, if it should happen so, to explain them also to others?

There are more puppets that move by the wire of a diurnal, as Brereton and Cell, two of Mars his petty-toes, such snivelling cowards that it is a favour to call them so.

"We can keep on a-praying, friend Simon," replies Peter, in a snivelling voice.

With this he fell a-snivelling like any girl.

'Tis like your snivelling cant to write sweet psalms for smuggling rogues and try to frighten honest men with your judgements.

Nothing is more frequent than to take a Lad from Grammar and Taw, and under the Tuition of some poor Scholar, who is willing to be banished for thirty Pounds a Year, and a little Victuals, send him crying and snivelling into foreign Countries.

As single words were not always explosive enough to make a report equal to their feelings, they had recourse to compounds;"pert and prating popinjay," "hackneyed gutscraper," "maggot of corruption," "toad on a dung-heap," "snivelling sophisticating hound," are a few of the chain-shot which strike our eyes in turning over the yellow faded files.

so baseso broken By human jackals and hyaenas spoken; Formed for a race of infidels, and fit To laugh at truthand scepticize in wit; What stammering, snivelling sounds, which scarcely dare, Bravely through nasal channels meet the ear Yet helped by apes' grimacesand the devil, Have ruled the world, and ruled the world for evil! Ibid.

I left our young poet, snivelling and sobbing behind the scenes, and cursing somebody that has deceived him.

This is not a romanceI have too often faced the music of life to the tune of hardship to waste time in snivelling and gushing over fancies and dreams; neither is it a novel, but simply a yarna real yarn.

Harold Beecham kept a snivelling little Queensland black boy as a sort of black-your-boots, odd-jobs slavey or factotum, and he came to Dogtrap for the mail, but after I started to ride for it Harold came regularly for his mail himself.

"Stop your snivelling, sir, and give up the note.

("Wobbler," "snivelling puppy," and "mumchancer" are, it seems, among the ordinary small change of Mr. Lidgett's scholastic commerce.)

"I am no weakling, I hope, to go snivelling over what is not for me; and when I comprehended you were married, on the Lusitania, I just faced up the situation and vowed I'd be a strong man.

Nothing is more frequent than to take a Lad from Grammar and Taw, and under the Tuition of some poor Scholar, who is willing to be banished for thirty Pounds a Year, and a little Victuals, send him crying and snivelling into foreign Countries.

vile, snivelling, sick poltroon!

"Do you think I am a snivelling scrivener, carrying quill and ink-well in my gown?" asked the duke.

ARRAM Look here, my girl, where's the use of snivelling?

We've got women and children at home snivelling and saying, "O my God, O my God," just like you.

Only my duty...." He began to snivel, taking out from his coat a very dirty pocket-handkerchief and dabbing his face with it.

The *puchero* is known also as the *cocido* and was formerly called *olla* or, when especially rich, *olla podrida*); pl. pout, snivel; *hacer s* snivel *pueblo* m. people *puerta* door; * falsa* back door; * principal* front door; main entrance *puerto* m. harbor *pues* why; well; then; since; (used alone in answer to a question)

The *puchero* is known also as the *cocido* and was formerly called *olla* or, when especially rich, *olla podrida*); pl. pout, snivel; *hacer s* snivel *pueblo* m. people *puerta* door; * falsa* back door; * principal* front door; main entrance *puerto* m. harbor *pues* why; well; then; since; (used alone in answer to a question)

50 examples of  snivelling  in sentences