snorin

Maybe that aphorism makes more sense to a person whose name is -- it looks -- pronounced "snorin'."

"We wanted something intimate, and we listen to Tori Amos when we're alone." Ann Althouse 2005

The camp's asleep an 'snorin', an 'the waitin' was cold.

Smoke Bellew Jack London 1896

Well, I war laying out on de porch fas 'asleep an' snorin 'drefful hard.

Iola Leroy, Or Shadows Uplifted. 1892

An 'sure enough what was it bud Bill Malowney that was dhroppin' asleep in the closet, an 'snorin' like a church organ.

The Purcell Papers, Volume III 1880

Whin he kem to himself the cheerful mornin 'sun was shinin' through the windy shutthers, an 'he was lying flat an his back, with the leg iv one of the great ould chairs pulled clane out iv the socket an' tight in his hand, pintin 'up to the ceilin', an 'ould Larry fast asleep, an' snorin 'as loud as ever.

The Purcell Papers, Volume I 1880

You'll scarce hear an oath in this house from mornin 'to evenin', though you'll hear a deal o 'snorin' doorin 'the night!

Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan 1859

As if to accommodate him, and confirm the crew in the whistling superstition, the breeze did increase at the moment, and sent the lifeboat, as one of the men said, "snorin '" over the wild sea towards the harbour of Greyton.

The Coxswain's Bride also, Jack Frost and Sons; and, A Double Rescue 1859

Whin he kem to himself the cheerful mornin 'sun was shinin' through the windy shutthers, an 'he was lying flat an his back, with the leg iv one of the great ould chairs pulled clane out iv the socket an' tight in his hand, pintin 'up to the ceilin', an 'ould Larry fast asleep, an' snorin 'as loud as ever.

The Purcell Papers — Volume 1 Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1843

An 'sure enough what was it but Bill Malowney that was dhroppin' asleep in the closet, an 'snorin' like a church organ.

The Purcell Papers — Volume 3 Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1843

"snorin '" past the rocks, which were now close under her lee, with the waves bursting wildly over them.

The Eagle Cliff 1859