Example Sentences

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"Here forsooth is dolorous doleful dirge—out on thee for sad and sorry snuffler!"

From The Geste of Duke Jocelyn by Farnol, Jeffery

Coward, poltroon, shaker, squeamer, Blockhead, sluggard, dullard, dreamer, Shirker, shuffler, crawler, creeper, Sniffler, snuffler, wailer, weeper, Earthworm, maggot, tadpole, weevil!

From The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), Sir

One of the proofs of his inventive genius was a mechanical snuffler that he had made of a shoe-polish tin.

From The Quest by Goldberg, Isaac

You know I never was a snuffler; but this sort of life makes one serious, if one has any reverence at all in one.

From Tom Brown at Oxford by Hughes, Thomas

Lord Thormanby and the Archdeacon were in the smoking room, so we pretended we'd come to look for Hilda's pocket snuffler.

From Lalage's Lovers by Birmingham, George A.