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  • It would not be seemly to record how many fish, sniggled from coral recesses and baked on the embers, were eaten.

    Last Leaves from Dunk Island 2003

  • Mary's face wore its usual blank stare, Barbara sniggled with obvious contempt, Nancy veiled her eyes with her thick, dark lashes, Susan flushed suddenly a brilliant red.

    Etheldreda the Ready A School Story George de Horne Vaizey 1887

  • 'Foreign parts isn't all one,' said Edgar; and the younger boys sniggled.

    The Pillars of the House, V1 Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

  • 'Ay! you see you'll laugh at the bare thought on it -- and I'll be bound th' minister, though he's not a laughing man, would ha 'sniggled at th' notion of falling in love wi 'the child.

    Cousin Phillis Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

  • So I used to be one of those who sniggled at those who tortured themselves running to death, but now I am one of them and I can't say I'm not pleased with my new profound achievement.

    . 2010

  • "When I caught that dridful little reptil by the arm, he wriggled like a sniggled eel, so I was forced you see, to grasp him something tighter, and could feel his little arm-bones crack like any chicken's: now then, if his left elbow an't black and blue, though it's a month a-gone and more, I'll eat it.

    The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849

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