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  • noun Plural form of snarler.

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Examples

  • Even if they were still playing with me, cat and mouse, ground-to-air snarlers would rise up from the Sacramento Valley.

    The Past Through Tomorrow Heinlein, Robert A. 1967

  • Is about this here "spiling the River" which snarlers set down to our sort.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 15, 1891 Various

  • Turning and devouring each other over prostrate antlers the snarlers die, their furry hides bloat and then collapse on rigid bones to make a place for curious sniffings and quick retreat in trampled snow.

    Greener Than You Think Ward Moore 1940

  • Curs, 7 snarlers more in spite than power, from whom

    Purgatory. Canto XIV 1909

  • But the growls of these grumblers and carpers and snarlers did not count in the general and genial applause that our youth gave to mellifluous numbers and lovely love, and the thousand beautiful things and thoughts that make this poor life of ours seem for a season Elysium.

    The God of Love 1898

  • As for the pure child's stories, generation after generation of competent criticism, childish and adult, has voted them by acclamation into almost the highest place possible: and the gain-sayers have for the most part been idle paradoxers, ill-conditioned snarlers at things clean and sweet, or fools pure and simple.

    The English Novel George Saintsbury 1889

  • But, candidly speaking, I do think these two poems the most defective of any I ever saw of yours, which, usually, have been remarkably free from all angles on which the race of snarlers can lay hold.

    Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey Cottle, Joseph 1847

  • I calls my cove -- for he is my cove -- a snarler; because your first-rates at matthew mattocks are called snarlers, and for no other reason; for the chap, though with a high front, is a good chap, and once drank a glass of ale with me, after buying an animal out of my stable.

    The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro" George Henry Borrow 1842

  • I calls my cove -- for he is my cove -- a snarler; because your first-rates at matthew mattocks are called snarlers, and for no other reason; for the chap, though with a high front, is a good chap, and once drank a glass of ale with me, after buying an animal out of my stable.

    The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' George Henry Borrow 1842

  • I calls my cove -- for he is my cove -- a snarler; because your first-rates at matthew mattocks are called snarlers, and for no other reason; for the chap, though with a high front, is a good chap, and once drank a glass of ale with me, after buying an animal out of my stable.

    The Romany Rye George Henry Borrow 1842

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