Snort

I don't like the sound the pigs make when they snort.

I like to snort cocaine.

Cats snort when they are angry or frightened.

On a December day at the rehabilitation clinic outside the capital, addicts recited their serenity prayers and sought refuge from the friends and social environment many said encouraged them to drink, shoot heroin, snort cocaine, or abuse any of a litany of hard drugs.

"I absolutely refuse to leave, however, until we have made at least a superficial examination of this country, and are able to take back with us something in the nature of a chart." Professor Summerlee gave a snort of impatience.

She unlocked the top drawer of the roll-top desk, took out a bottle and a glass and poured herself a snort.

Everybody tipped up the jug and took a snort of whisky and followed it with a gourd of cool water. We thought a snort of whisky now and then braced us up some and put a little more lift in us.

"It won't buy you any wine," Paxton told him. "I know that," the drunk replied in an insulted tone. "It's a pussy pass, ain't it?" Paxton grinned wearily. "How would you know that? You'd rather have a snort than a screw any day."

She snorted with laughter.

Disembarkation seemed a slow business. From the deck one watched a "Merchant Navy" Pacific drift lazily along the track beside the wall of the Marine Station, and little South Eastern tanks go snorting fussily about.