"Snoring" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... may think how she cried for the loss of her dear children. At last in her grief she wandered out of doors, and the youngest kid with her; and when they came into the meadow, there they saw the wolf lying under a tree, and snoring so that the branches shook. The mother goat looked at him carefully on all sides and she noticed how something inside his body was ...
— Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm • Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm
... threw himself on the shakedown, and in a short time, as was evident by his snoring, fell into ...
— Willy Reilly - The Works of William Carleton, Volume One • William Carleton
... deserted, and the attendants busy in putting out the fires; only the places where lanterns or candles were sold seemed to be doing an active trade, although it had scarcely struck nine. At ten o'clock no doubt all were asleep, for hosts of beggars and poor wretches were snoring by the roadsides. The most picturesque groups passed in this evening stroll were those on the bridges, where, by the light of tallow candles, men and boys were gambling and fighting crickets. Although ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various
... schooner out from Kingsport, Through the morning's dazzle-gleam, Snoring down the Bay of Fundy With a ...
— Ballads of Lost Haven - A Book of the Sea • Bliss Carman
... uncommonly dark. Along the corridor on which his room was situated the snores of sleeping domestics exploded, growled and twittered in the air. Every menial on the list seemed to be snoring, some in one key, some in another, some defiantly, some plaintively; but the main fact was that they were all snoring somehow, thus intimating that, so far as this side of the house was concerned, the coast might ...
— Something New • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
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