It had gone down on all fours and was snuffing and rooting, like a veritable hog, at the surface of the arena.

Thus Robin led his band, walking blithely with chest thrown out and head thrown back, snuffing the odors of the gentle breeze that came drifting from over the hayfields.

Quoth Robin Hood, snuffing the air, "Here is a fair day, Little John, and one that we can ill waste in idleness.

Flounce, the terrier, snuffing disconsolately about the deck, and scratching the boards in her zeal to explore the shallow hold, at last grew weary, and came to snuggle down between the two silent companions.

The poor horses and mules were tied close up to the well, looking wistfully at the water when drawn for the biped animals, and snuffing the scent; but they were not allowed to taste a drop.

For one thing, I observed that the little busy bee is not busy all the while; that he does a great amount of aimless, idle snuffing and tasting of all sorts of things besides flowers; especially he indulges in a running accompaniment of gymnastics among the grass-stalks, which cannot possibly have anything to do with honey.

" Crusoe instantly set off all round among the willows, in and out, snuffing everywhere, and whining with excitement.

Old Uberto crouched, cowering, and oppressed with a sense of helplessness, at the side of his master, while the Newfoundland follower of the mariner went leaping from gangway to gangway, snuffing the heated air, and barking wildly, as if he would challenge the elements to close for the strife.

The pipes let out a very small quantity upon the back of the hand, and this was snuffed up the nostrils with the intention of producing a sneeze which, says Lillie, I need not say forms now no part of the design or rather fashion of snuff-taking; least of all in the ladies who took part in this method of snuffing defiance at the public enemy.

" The tobacco-leaf is consumed by man usually in three ways: by smoking, snuffing, or chewing.

there's something else up!" He suddenly checked himself and began snuffing the air, as though it was tainted with something suspicious.

" He told how, after an hour's steady running over the wolds, a "let" occurred, and "the hot scent-snuffing hounds are driven to doubt"; how Mountain, Fury, Tyrant, and Ringwood, who had been leading the rest of the pack, strove in vain for a considerable time to pick out the cold scent, until suddenly the cheery sound of the old huntsman's voice was heard crying: [Footnote 18: Two Noble Kinsmen, III.

Some blood-gorged Moloch, enthroned on human hecatombs, and snuffing carnage for incense?

Some blood-gorged Moloch, enthroned on human hecatombs, and snuffing carnage for incense?

Some blood-gorged Moloch, enthroned on human hecatombs, and snuffing carnage for incense?

Lamps make oil spots, and candles want snuffing; it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain.

They had gone a mile or two when suddenly he came to a dead stop, snuffing at the air like a hound on a scent.

All the lower portions of the outer plain were already covered with water, and those sagacious creatures, the hogs, showed by their snuffing and disturbed manner of running about, that they had internal as well as external warnings of danger.

Why he pricked up his ears, and went snuffing to the door, and pacing about the room, was more than Martha could tell.

And Beauty is willing; but more When the war-horse is gallantly prancing And snuffing the battle afar, When the foe, with his banner advancing, Is sounding the clarion of war.

Quite as good was it, too, for their occasional heavy-gun practice with two or three huge, new-cast, big-breeched "hell-hounds," as Charlie and others called them, whose tapering black snouts lay out on the parapet's superior slope, fondled by the soft Gulf winds that came up the river, and snuffing them for the taint of the enemy.

The cattle seemed to be uneasy, and when I started them toward home, they walked fast, snuffing the air, and giving once in a while an uneasy, anxious falsetto bellow; and now and then they would break into a trot as they drew nearer to the places they knew.

When he entered, it seemed as if the candles suddenly required snuffing, and we ceased to laugh.

" "I like not that word presentiment," grumbled the Alderman, taking a light, and snuffing it with deliberate care; "drop but a single letter, and one dreams of the pains and penalties of the Exchequer.

Sleeping in church, and snuffing.