" The old virago gave a sniff, tossed her head, but kept her eyes rolled suspiciously on Peter.

That boy started in with his can of insect powder on a buffalo calf, and then he filled the cow's hair full of the powder, and when he started on the bull, the bull took a sniff of the powder on the cow, and got it up his nose, and he held his head up kind of scared like, and turned his upper lip wrong-side out, and began to paw the ground.

I walked away behind the hyena cage, and Mr. Lion got up and stretched himself, and walked to the place where I put the paper of snuff, put his foot on it and broke the paper, and then he put his nose down and sniffed a sniff that drew the whole of the snuff up into his nose and lungs, and insides generally.

If the fox got a sniff of human scent, he would leave his circle very quickly, and make tracks fast to be out of danger.

The stone lifted, a sniff or two, a lick of his hot, flat tongue, and he ambled on to the next.

I think I'd like a sniff of the water.

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.

The pattering came straight towards the room that I was in, then I heard the sniffing of expectant nostrils; perhaps 'uneasy' was not the most suitable word to describe my feelings then.

She had really enjoyed the play, and I know I heard her sniff once or twice at the proper time, though of course I pretended not to.