"Snub" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... me why one writes journals, and then when I presume upon the inference you snub me—You are not fair, ...
— Man and Maid • Elinor Glyn
... not notice the smile that made the big mouth under the snub nose still bigger, nor the cunning, lurking gleam that flashed in ...
— Absolution • Clara Viebig
... he murmured. "Why didn't you lay low, and not go butting down their door? Why didn't you lose the old man and snub up one of the girls—marry her? Big one's a rip-snortin' beauty; pert, by jingo! ...
— The Plow-Woman • Eleanor Gates
... the Poetry of his aspect might be lost, but had, here and there, been grubbed up by the roots; which accounted for his loftiest developments being somewhat pimply. He had that order of nose on which the envy of mankind has bestowed the appellation 'snub,' and it was very much turned up at the end, as with a lofty scorn. Upon the upper lip of this young gentleman were tokens of a sandy down; so very, very smooth and scant, that, though encouraged to the utmost, it looked more like a recent trace of gingerbread than the fair promise ...
— Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit • Charles Dickens
... he said, in his autocratic way, "we will proceed as we did yesterday," and he led Susie away. Strange to relate, she followed quite meekly. Somehow, when the moment came, it seemed exceedingly difficult to snub him. ...
— Affairs of State • Burton E. Stevenson
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