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

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

“Sir,” replied the sniveller, “do not make the hive jump about so much; my poor arms are nearly breaking in two.”

From The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Coster, Charles Th?odore Henri de

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)

Val herself had at one time been "only six," but she hadn't been a sniveller; she had always played fair and never cried.

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

If you've turned sniveller, go and snivel with Broadbrim.

From The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times by Adams, John Turvill