Snouts

"Are those bluish draggled masses hanging down from beneath the snow-fields what you call the snouts of the glaciers?" ❋ John Muir (1876)

My boat was brought in, and placed bottom-up along one side of the hovel, and immediately the keel was occupied by a legion of poultry, and half a score of pigs, little and big, were at the same time to be seen dubbing their snouts under the gunnel, on voyages of alimentary discovery. ❋ Edward Howard (1820)

Reports of 'snouts' and 'troughs' on almost every page. ❋ Glyn Davies (2008)

Greedy contractors will find their ability to sink their snouts into the trough radically circumscribed by the knowledge that whilst they may have been able to get away with skinning the public when only a few councillors knew of their gluttony, they will no longer be able to swing the lead with the eyes of 50,000 voters upon the way in which they swing the lead. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In honour of the 646 Little Parliamentary Piggies with their snouts in the taxpayer trough, let's start the week with a little Pink Floyd. ❋ Dungeekin (2009)

The pigs and dogs happily gobbled up everything that turned up under their snouts—rotten food, excrement, dead rats, anything that no longer moved, sometimes even corpses. ❋ Ben Hobrink (2011)

Whilst other matters will doubtless at that moment be uppermost in the minds of the electorate, as home repossessions and unemployment mount in these erstwhile Labour rotten boroughs, it is unlikely that the sight of this unlovely couple getting their snouts so deeply into the trough of Taxpayer's money will do them any favours whatsoever. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The found it pragmatic to pretend to eat the humble pie just before the election and now that the election is safely out of the way for nearly five years they again want their snouts in the trough. ❋ Unknown (2011)

But no sooner had she dug in, than the dogs lifted their massive snouts and barked. ❋ Carol Edgarian (2011)

Soon the siren roared in the distance; the Danes, their ears insulted, turned up their snouts and began to warble. ❋ Carol Edgarian (2011)

Even though they have reduced mouths that are located away from their snouts, they eat fish almost exclusively. ❋ Unknown (2011)

"I wouldn't breed a pug with an English bulldog," he says, because both breeds are brachycephalic, or have pushed-in snouts, which means a tendency for breathing disorders. ❋ Miriam Gottfried (2011)

Microscopic water bears called tardigrades waddle through the film around soil granules, and drill into roots with sharp snouts, sucking out nourishment. ❋ Dr. Reese Halter (2010)

Rethugs don't work, they just object and obstruct and drag their heels, bidding their time until the next election, all the while dipping their snouts in the public trough. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If anyone knows the identity of any of Patrick Fosters media informants/sources/snouts perhaps public recognition would be in order. on June 18, 2009 at 12: 28 pm Brian Ginnity ❋ Inspector Gadget (2009)

In a sexual behavior known as 'nipping,' males contact their snouts to the female genital area prior to copulation. ❋ Carin Bondar (2012)

Using their "lateral line system", sense organs that can detect movements and pressure changes in surrounding water, they spot their prey, thrust upward, lift the snouts and quickly open their small but very strong mouths to swallow a fish almost whole. ❋ Unknown (2011)