The shining snout of a fresh-water dolphin rose slowly to the surface; a jet of spray whirred up; a rainbow hung upon it for a moment; and the black snout sank lazily again.
Ed Thursten told me that once he and father went down to newmarket and a feller in the hotel tride to lick father and father hit him a old he one in the snout and gnocked him up 2 flites of stairs and round 3 corners befoar he stoped.
For a moment the vole sat in the mouth of the burrow, with nothing of himself visible but a blunt little snout twitching as he sniffed the air, and two beady eyes moving restlessly as he peered into the sky.
While the vole was almost entirely a vegetable feeder, the shrew, diving to the bed of the river, would thrust his long snout between the stones, and pick up grubs and worms and leeches sheltering there.
As a plain matter of fact, it is five miles from High Force to Caldron Snout, a much more amazing waterfall, and there are more than seven miles as the crow flies between Caldron Snout and Tees Head.
Taggi raised an egg-patterned snout from a hollow and licked at the stippling of greenish yolk matting his fur.
The armored snout pointed skyward as the creature ground the sharp edge of its collar down on the Terran's arm.
Again the forked tail lifted and fell, the head, raised from the forelimb, stretching up and back until the white underfolds of the throat were exposed as the snout pointed almost vertically to the sky.
Occasionally, however, it rises to the surface, and elevating the tip of its pointed snout above the water, floats along with the current.
The snout is elongated, the upper mandible extending very little beyond the lower.
The head of the creature is of an unusual shape, as it has a snout with nostrils lengthened into a kind of tube.
It has a small head, the snout sharpened and bent slightly downwards.
With foaming jaws he watches the dogs, ready to seize by the snout each who comes within reach.
The snout was taken off by one ball, and another entered the hinder part of the skull, when the Indians, attacking it with their clubs, appeared completely to have knocked out every spark of life.
There were no bridges across the torrent nearer than Gruetta, and rather than descend so far, we preferred to round the base of Mont Rouge, and to cross the snout of the Glacier du Mont Dolent.
The snout reached to the top of the guide's head, while the caudal fin dragged on the ground.
It was a wild hog of the ugliest and largest description; tall as a yearling, with an unnaturally large head, and dangerous looking tusks, that curved above his savage snout like small horns.
But the snout still lies on the projecting lower jaw, and is not a trunk.
The Camptosaur, which was closely related to the Iguanodon in structure, was thirty feet from the snout to the end of the tail, and the head probably stood eighteen feet from the ground.
The long supporting skin disappears, and the enormous snout becomes a flexible trunk.
The skulls of members of the Ceratops family sometimes measured eight feet from the snout to the ridge of the collar.
It would look like a small elephant, except that it had a long snout, instead of a flexible trunk, and a projecting lower jaw on which the snout rested.
Many of these Deinosaurs must have measured more than a hundred feet from the tip of the snout to the end of the tail, and stood about thirty feet high from the ground.
Now, the old-man weighed two hundred and forty pounds, and measured nine feet from the tip of his snout to the tip of his long tail.
She had a snout somewhat resembling that of a pig, though much sharper at the point, and with whiskers like a cat.
Then with her snout she makes a crescent-shaped cut in the skin of the plum, around the egg.
The tibiotarsal articulation extends slightly beyond the tip of the snout in all specimens.
Specimens from the Pacific lowlands are typical of Gastrophryne usta gadowi Boulenger in possessing a thin line on the posterior surface of the thighs and a thin line from the snout to the vent.
Many a beautiful lawn has been nearly ruined by the handiwork of this little creature, who likes to bore its snout into loose soil and throw it backward with its powerful forepaws.
The eyes, however, are about the size of a small seed lie midway between the tip of the snout and the ears, and are completely covered with the hair of the head.
They waited, for a time, in hopes that he might show his snout at the little aperture, and all three stood watching it, with guns cocked and ready.
Bruin was too cunning for them, and did not protrude even the tip of his snout out of his secure cavity.
Close by its snout a whitish mass appeared attached under the branches.
That object was the snoutof the bear, that was projected upward above the surface of the snow.
The young hunter was just regretting that he had not taken a snap shot at the animal's head; but before ten seconds of time had elapsed, the snout was again popped up by the edge of the hole.
A good while passed, however, and, as no snout made its appearance, they came to the conclusion that the bear was not to be caught in that simple way.
Those I saw were without that snout or trunk hanging below the end of the upper jaw; but then the males were furnished with a large shaggy mane, which gave them a most formidable appearance.
The skull is three feet four inches in length; and when provided with its soft parts, including a snout or trunk in front, it must have been at least five or six feet long.
Its snout before long appeared above the surface, when Jumbo, aware of the rush it would make, scampered off up the steep bank to a safe distance.
While I was dipping my cup in the water, a long dark snout darted towards it; and I had barely time to withdraw my hand, letting the cup slip, when a pair of hideous jaws closed on it.
Then Master Petz perceived that he had been fooled, and he walked reluctantly away, with drooping snout and an empty stomach.
Full of curiosity, the Boar stuck his head out a little way to see what was going on; when the Cat, mistaking his snout for a mouse, sprang forward and buried her claws in it.
Said the Boar, "I will break into a granary and steal the seed, and with my snout I will plough up the field.
The cheeks are also white, and a broad and definitely marked black line extends from the snout back around the eyes ending at the neck.
Those of the Northern regions of America have shorter ears, a broader snout and forehead, and are of a stouter make, than the European wolves.
Slowly and cautiously it stole along, its hind-feet resting all their length upon the ground, its hideous snout thrown forward, and its eyes glaring with a voracious and hungry expression.
Within fifty yards of him he saw the high shoulders of the bull-moose and his great flat antlers towering over the tops of the willows, among the leaves of which the snout of the animal was buried.
At times hissnout was so close to Basil, that the latter could almost touch it; and he had even drawn his hunting-knife, and reached down with the intent of giving the creature a stab.
The badger when first seen was creeping along with its belly almost dragging the ground, and its long snout projected horizontally in the direction of the marmot "village.
In front of the palatine the cartilaginous snout is overlapped by three membrane bones, the jugal, maxilla and premaxillae.
The long cartilaginous snout is more or less bifid in front, especially in the male (fig.
Suddenly a horrid darksnout was thrust up in front of him.
In another second the great saurian would have seized its prey, but the pony swerved aside, and the huge snout shot out of the water, and the jaws, missing their prey, clashed together with a sharp snap.
The inopportune brute threw up its sharp snout and gave tongue to a series of weird, discordant yelps after the manner of dogs which are half coyotes.
He therefore came noiselessly behind him and with a show of absent-mindedness poked his snout between his legs.
Dorothy was not a little alarmed now, for his huge forepaws were on a level with the eaves, while his blunt, black snout was quite several inches above the sod roof.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "snout" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
