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  • Cameras installed all over the bus capture moments both snoringly boring and diva dramatic.

    Holly Cara Price: Rubbernecking: Another Ten Reality Shows I'd Like to See 2009

  • I love how every subway car reliably has at least one person who is sleeping (like, really, snoringly, head-bobbingly sleeping), one person who is praying (like, really, devotedly, rosary-wieldingly praying), and 18 discarded coffee cups rolling around the floor leaving swirling, sticky puddles in their wake.

    Archive 2007-10-01 Jay 2007

  • I love how every subway car reliably has at least one person who is sleeping (like, really, snoringly, head-bobbingly sleeping), one person who is praying (like, really, devotedly, rosary-wieldingly praying), and 18 discarded coffee cups rolling around the floor leaving swirling, sticky puddles in their wake.

    Riding the Rocket Jay 2007

  • By the time his head was down, he was snoringly asleep.

    Freedoms Challenge McCaffrey, Anne 1998

  • He breathes, but snoringly, like a man with a broken head.

    The Virgin In The Ice Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1982

  • Take, as one instance, the experience of a friend, who, in writing in all innocency of a session of the Historical Society, affirmed mildly in manuscript, "All went smoothly," but weeks after was made to declare in blatant print, "All went _snoringly_!"

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 Various

  • How many anecdotes might be told of such _réunions_, as they swooped down on Landells or on Lemon at Herne Bay, or, in the rollicking days of youthful indiscretion, would adjourn at midnight to serenade the snoringly unconscious Hine away in the wilds of Hampstead!

    The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann

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