snufflings

About half way across, in a little clearing hard by the summit of a hill almost entirely shrouded in steaming vapor, surrounded by jungle noises, strange squarks and snufflings, we saw it, on the upper branch of a big, scrubby mango tree: a lone bird of paradise, performing like a consummate professional, with his astonishing repertoire of brightly-colored Vegas-level plumage.

Archive 2009-01-01 2009

Big Bang has-in spite of the snufflings-made being smart a cool thing.

MIND MELD: The Best Genre-Related Books/Films/Shows Consumed in 2009 (Part 1) 2009

I know there were some snufflings from scientist-types that the show's stereotypical geeks were too stereotypically geeky.

MIND MELD: The Best Genre-Related Books/Films/Shows Consumed in 2009 (Part 1) 2009

Already his distress was turning to eager snufflings and rootings with the smell of proper milk near.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2005

I should hear snufflings and gulping noises, at least-rustlings of broken foliage, the lap of a long tongue.

A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

Unfortunately on the Fridays when we were in that area, we saw and heard nothing except the alarming snufflings of wild boars; but the story shows how much the Templars have become part of local legend.

The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004

I would I could hear again those long rubber-lipped snufflings of recognition underneath the door, with which each morning he would regale and reassure a spirit that grew with age more and more nervous and delicate about this matter of propinquity!

The Inn of Tranquillity: Studies and Essays 2004

Unfortunately on the Fridays when we were in that area, we saw and heard nothing except the alarming snufflings of wild boars; but the story shows how much the Templars have become part of local legend.

The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004

It was not the breathing of a fearsome guardian, not the deep, harsh snufflings of an ogre, not the husky, whistling breaths of a hobgoblin.

The Soulforge Weis, Margaret 1998

Becca's soft snufflings were lost in the screech of tires as a teenager took off out of a driveway somewhere down the road, then honked his horn at a panicked squirrel.

Briar Rose Yolen, Jane 1991