"Snivel" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... snivel, taking out from his coat a very dirty pocket-handkerchief and dabbing his ...
— The Secret City • Hugh Walpole
... Channel crossing, RAPHAEL, MICHAEL ANGELO, DA VINCI. But when you come to the seventeenth century, Guido Reni, the Carracci, and other painters (for the present moment out of fashion), painters whose work fetches little at Christie's, the art critic and historian begin to snivel about decay; not only of Italian art, but of the Italian peninsula; and their sobs will hardly ever allow them to get as far as Longhi, Piazetta, and Tiepolo, those great masters of the ...
— Masques & Phases • Robert Ross
... 'I don't want your pity. Do you think I can't see that you wouldn't touch me with the tongs if you could help it? It's too late to snivel over me now, and I'm well enough as I am. You leave me alone to go to the devil my own way; it's all I ask of you. Good-bye. It's Christmas, isn't it? I haven't dreamed that at all events. Well, I wish you and Lionel as merry a Christmas ...
— The Talking Horse - And Other Tales • F. Anstey
... say, but she sends a lot of kisses and love to you. She had to go away for a few days.... Now don't snivel!... Come here an' I'll give you the ...
— Rose O'Paradise • Grace Miller White
... on the Floor violently.] I'd as lieve get into my coffin. She'll have me there soon. Psha! rot it! I'm going to snivel. Bur, go, and get ...
— John Bull - The Englishman's Fireside: A Comedy, in Five Acts • George Colman |
