Example Sentences

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At any rate, she was not, as she frequently observed to the scarlet barberries—she was not a sniveller.

From The Open Question a tale of two temperaments by Robins, Elizabeth

Are you sure this cavalier of yours was not some miserable sniveller who found time to favour you with a sermon?

From The Brown Mask by Brebner, Percy James

Awful verdicts, clean-cut and simple, were arrived at; advice, grim and far-reaching, was generously given, but woe to the liar or sniveller.

From At the Crossroads by Comstock, Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa)

Love to all you poor past snivellers from an expectant sniveller.

From Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 by Huxley, Leonard

I tell you, stranger, that you shall marry the girl, and this sniveller must marry you.

From The People of the Mist by Haggard, Henry Rider