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Snorting   /snˈɔrtɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Snort  v. t.  To expel throught the nostrils with a snort; to utter with a snort.


Snort  v. i.  (past & past part. snorted; pres. part. snorting)  
1.
To force the air with violence through the nose, so as to make a noise, as do high-spirited horsed in prancing and play.
2.
To snore. (R.) "The snorting citizens."
3.
To laugh out loudly. (Colloq.)





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"Snorting" Quotes from Famous Books



... attacking monster, and heavier, better armed, she hurled and speared him to the ground. And the White Calf, with a very demon glare in his once mild eyes, charged too; and even after the Wolverene was a mere hairy mass, and his mother had retired to feed, he came, snorting out his rage, to drive his spikes into the hateful thing, till his snowy head was stained ...
— Animal Heroes • Ernest Thompson Seton
... over. After struggling for a couple of miles through the boggy prairie, I got at last on to a narrow raised wooden causeway to a clearing in the forest. The cart jolted unevenly over the round beams of the causeway: I got out and went along on foot. The horses moved in step snorting and shaking their heads from the gnats and flies. The forest took us into its bosom. On the outskirts, nearer to the prairie, grew birches, aspens, limes, maples, and oaks. Then they met us more rarely, the dense firwood moved ...
— The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories • Ivan Turgenev
... quick leap, and the Belgian felt a heavy body hurtle onto the rump of his terror-stricken mount. The horse, snorting, leaped forward. Giant arms encircled the rider, and in the twinkling of an eye he was dragged from his saddle to find himself lying in the narrow trail with a naked, white giant ...
— Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... relief engine made its appearance, snorting its way sulkily through the snow. Abbleway did not have the opportunity for finding out whether Karl was ...
— Beasts and Super-Beasts • Saki
... moment a shower of chestnuts fell and a prickly burr landed on the back of one of the team. The beast rose on his hind legs and pawed the air, snorting. ...
— Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies - The Missing Pearl Necklace • Alice B. Emerson


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