snift

“I would sooner snift thy farthing candle than sustain that nasal cadence ever more. ”

Camilla

“He shall neither strike, or pinch, or tickle — or bite, or cut his nails, or hawk, or spit, or snift, or drum with his feet or fingers in company; — nor (according to Erasmus) shall he speak to any one in making water, — nor shall he point to carrion or excrement. —”

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

“Deed an 'I wasn't goin' t 'let yo' hab so much as a snift at it,”

The Diamond Cross Mystery Being a Somewhat Different Detective Story

“I mean to say, when they snift they snift, and when they snuffle they -- as it were -- snuffle.”

Indiscretions of Archie

“Jest then I heerd a snift, like the coughin 'o' a glandered hoss; an 'turnin' suddintly round, I spied the biggest bar it hed ever been my luck to set eyes on.”

The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire

“So then you look'd scornful, and snift at the Dean,”

The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2

“KB… him snift da klaw-furni an’ den went strayt foar da kowch.”

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“It appeareth to me that even to praise one's self, although it be shameful, is less shameful than to throw a burning coal into the incense-box that another doth hold to waft before us, and then to snift and simper over it, with maidenly, wishful coyness, as if forsooth one had no hand in setting it asmoke. ”

Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare, Euseby Treen, Joseph Carnaby, and Silas Gough, Clerk