How To Use Snout In A Sentence
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Dozens of deep scars and pits ran across the length its snout.
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His fleshless snout made stunted attempts at movement while he spoke, though his speech was clear and articulated.
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Its snouty head, patchy grey body and small pedal fins make the dwarf look more like a large dolphin than a baleen whale.
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In place of teeth it has the well-known substance called whalebone, which grows from the roof of its mouth in a number of broad thin plates, extending from the back of the head to the snout.
Fighting the Whales
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His chin is almost recessing into his jaw and he has the trademark republican pig snout.
Think Progress » Who Is Randy ‘Baby Killer’ Neugebauer?
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Hippocampus severnsi is distinguished from congeners in having a combination of: extremely small size (height 13 mm, standard length 15 mm); 12 trunk rings; 27 tail rings; reduced ossification of inferior and ventral trunk ridges; 14 dorsal fin rays; 10 pectoral fin rays; anal fin small or absent; medium length snout which lacks a bulbous tip; raised, angular coronet; single gill opening on midline directly behind coronet supported by raised cleithral bone; scattered tubercles on trunk and tail; predominant colour dark brown (sometimes slightly marbled) with large, bright red patch covering dorsolateral surfaces of trunk rings 1-4; tiny white dots scattered all over; pale posterior section of tail with dark transverse bands.
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And the tremendous skull of the great hog of Oakham hung, a portentous ivory overmantel, with a Chinese jar in either eye socket, snout down above the fire ....
The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth
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The door creaked open and a furred snout poked out.
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She turned and saw the bay nudging his snout through the bars, eager for her strokes.
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Once the snout contacted an ant larva or pupa, the snake would slide the ventral surface of its snout over the top of the prey until the prey item was positioned at or near the front of the mouth.
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The bucket had been stuck on the animal's snout, hanging like a feedbag, preventing it from eating or drinking.
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I made a mistake: the detailed, similar snout anatomy present in both suids and peccaries is more likely shared, not convergent.
More on what I saw at the zoo
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It turned its hideous head that looked like a rounded cone, with the snout being the pointy end and the round side being in back.
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Personally, I don't think its anything about snouts in better plenished troughs either, although Board Members are paid a few thousand more.
Jockeying for Position.
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Wulfgar, with his great shout ringing in the forest, held the point of the spear full against the snout.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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What he demands is an education that ‘makes] [him] a sharp, snouty, rooting hog.’
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However, look at that long nose, big barbels hanging off the protracted snout and you know you're after the real thing.
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Didi is a registered pure-bred gold schipperke, the colour of a golden fox, with foxy ears and a pointy foxy snout.
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An East Indiaman was once attacked by a sword-fish with such prodigious force that its "snout" was driven completely through the bottom of the ship, which must have been destroyed by the leak had not the animal killed itself by the violence of its own exertions, and left its sword imbedded in the wood.
Harper's Young People, February 3, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly
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The montage of icons does cohere into a sort of meta-icon perhaps, of dogs that are (for me) short-haired, middling-sized, with dark-brown fur; but this is … a sort of cubist collage of perspectives that spills out beyond its casual frame, each dog a Cerberus with three heads superimposed one over the other, snub-nosed and long-snouted, ears pricked and flattened, slavering and not slavering.
Archive 2009-07-01
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The snout was long and canid, with heavy canines and broad carnassial teeth.
Dragonfly in Amber
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They have a pointed snout, and the mouth contains teeth.
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In the former case the skull is said to be 'orthognathous' or straight-jawed; in the latter, it is called 'prognathous,' a term which has been rendered, with more force than elegance, by the Saxon equivalent, -- 'snouty.'
On Some Fossil Remains of Man
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The neighborhood is mainly Caribbean, which means incredible 24-hour fruit stands, passable butcher shops (brined pig snouts! dried fish!), and a plethora of cell phone shops and stores with names like “MAXIMUM $7.99 (and up).”
I want to check on Mike Dresser | clusterflock
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The babirusa's elaborate upper tusks are the upper canine teeth, whose sockets are reversed, so they grow vertically up through the skin of the snout.
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As a precaution, I had scented toilet paper stuffed up my nose, but the bouquet still came on like a rotten gauntlet across the snout.
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They look vaguely similar to the sharks of Jaws infamy, huge midriffs tapering to a point at snout and tail.
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In the dark of the night, the rat-size slow-moving animals sniff with their long tubular snouts for ants, insects, grubs, and small reptiles that venture forth.
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The snout of the glacier is a frozen cliff, risky to approach by boat and too dangerous to walk across.
Times, Sunday Times
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For a perfect finish, the snout of the hunter should stab down between his forepaws just as they hit the ground.
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Penelope" tells the perfectly -- well, imperfectly -- inane tale of a snouty young woman from a snooty family.
Two heads better than one in 'The Other Boleyn Girl'
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She wasn't eating generic slabs of lumpy meat that had nothing in common with happy moo-cows and snouty piglets; no, she was eating something with eyes, legs, and claws.
The Trip
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Somebody will make money, but then again somebody will make money by scraping Helvetia and building snout houses.
100 pages of poppycock (Jack Bog's Blog)
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Kathleen stared at the pistol, which he held, that had a cloud of smoke whispering from its snout, then she averted her eyes to the fallen officer.
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The readers who were huffing and puffing in Downer's defence, or accusing you of gutter journalism, most likely have their snouts in various troughs themselves.
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Her sled-dogs clustered about her in hirsute masses, and the leader, Wolf Fang, laid his long snout softly in her lap.
A DAUGHTER OF THE AURORA
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Wulfgar, with his great shout ringing in the forest, held the point of the spear full against the snout.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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Indeed, they are unusual in that the elongation of the snout begins before they are born, which probably makes borzoi puppies less proficient suckers than other breeds.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
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He covered the animal's snout with his mouth and puffed two breaths into her.
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It has short nasal barbels on the front of the snout.
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He licked the glisten from her fur and nuzzled among the sensitive whiskers around her snout.
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The council had been handing out grants indiscriminately, and people were hurrying to get their snouts in the trough.
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Head depressed, in old specimens broad, closely spotted with black, snout attenuated, apex with cirrhi; upper jaw in the centre with
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
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So can prison officers and staff - because the government are scared of violent reactions from people supposedly in the power of the State if 'snout' is taken away.
Nanny State, Police State
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He says that when they approached him to plug the Snout record he gave them a price he knew they could afford.
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A thin splint from their frontal bones projects down and forward, finger-like, among the snout bones.
Archive 2006-05-01
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In a platoon of hard-nosed execs, few have a snout quite as strong as Irish budget carrier Ryanair's Chief Executive Michael O'Leary: a harrier of behemoth flagship airlines, a browbeater of trade unions, a bugbear of the European Union and an unhesitant user of the "f" word--and we don't mean "flying.
U.K. Faces Of The Week, May 15-19, 2006
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And the kitchen door opened and May stuck her snout into the room again.
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Unlike the common shrew, it has a fat, bulbous head and a short, narrow snout.
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Their nostrils are located on top of their snouts and closed by valves.
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The dromaesaur had a long, beak-like snout; small widely spaced teeth; and a long tail.
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Her snout split into an ear to ear grin and she snickered at him.
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In Australia, bottlenose dolphins place sponges over their snouts as protection from the spines of stonefish and stingrays as they forage over shallow seabeds.
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This fish is recognized by its short broad snout with four barbels closer to the tip of the snout than the mouth.
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From the tip of the snout to the end of its tail, it was no longer than a foot.
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The yapok is a long-legged opossum with a relatively broad snout, and a long, almost hairless, scaly tail except at its base.
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Friar John singled him out of the whole knot of these rogues in grain, a red-snouted catchpole, who upon his right thumb wore a thick broad silver hoop, wherein was set a good large toadstone.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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They had long snouts and great, saucerlike eyes that saw everything.
LEGENDS OF THE DRAGONREALM
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The head or haft is either of ivory, the tooth of the duyong (sea-cow), that of the hippopotamus, the snout of the ikan layer (voilier), of black coral, or of fine-grained wood.
The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants
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Golden moles burrow mainly using their leathery snout combined with thrusts of the forepaws, which are held under the body (rather than at the sides, as in the talpids).
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The council had been handing out grants indiscriminately, and people were hurrying to get their snouts in the trough.
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The dino species also has two neat rows of seven holes along its snout.
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In addition to the embryos and eye, the fossil find includes portions of a snout plus jawbones, skull bones, cheekbones, and teeth.
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When the puncture into the nut is completed one or more eggs are inserted by means of an extensile, thread-like tube, or ovipositor, of the same length as the snout.
Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Eleventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. October 7 and 8, 1920
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The crew works until 9 p.m. and all day Saturday repairing the front snout, rear clip and right flame rails.
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Once the snout contacted an ant larva or pupa, the snake would slide the ventral surface of its snout over the top of the prey until the prey item was positioned at or near the front of the mouth.
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Rusticus will point out to you "the auld-fashioned standin 'stane" -- on which he tells you that there are plain to be seen a cocked hat, a pair of spectacles, a comb, a looking-glass, a sow with a long snout, and a man driving a gig, -- Mr Urban will describe to you "a hieroglyphed monolith" in the terms following: --
The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author
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Lirael sat up and looked where the Dog was pointing---in the classic pose, one foreleg up and snout eagerly forward.
LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
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In the pony the area devoted to the nostrils is as large as that devoted to the rest of the body; in the pig almost the whole of the sensory area of the cerebral cortex devoted to the sense of touch is given to fibres from the snout, which the pig uses to explore its environment.
Edgar Adrian - Biography
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The man moved his head slightly so I could make out a brown doggish snout and a black nose.
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Indonesia: aulia: A maid who arrived in Surabaya from Taiwan is the 1st suspected Indonesian swine flu carrier according to #metrotv (via @wolwol) fujitasenpai: RT @BrandingComm: Rebranding Idea: instead of “Swine Flu” how about “Hamdemic”, “Aporkalypse” or “Snoutbreak”? antonnyliem: Dimsum@ taipan.
Global Voices in English » Southeast Asia: Twitter reactions on H1N1 virus
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In Australia, bottlenose dolphins place sponges over their snouts as protection from the spines of stonefish and stingrays as they forage over shallow seabeds.
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In addition to the embryos and eye, the fossil find includes portions of a snout plus jawbones, skull bones, cheekbones, and teeth.
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Pointing to similarities in the shape of the orbit, snout tip and crest, and the anatomy of the coracoid, Alex Kellner (2003a, b, 2004) has argued that Tapejara and Tupuxuara should be united as the Tapejaridae.
Archive 2006-11-01
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There were a few locals about, mostly Keklir, a bipedal race with short, powerful limbs and faces dominated by a wide, tapering snout with two mouthlike openings.
Orphaned Worlds, 1st Draft, 2nd Excerpt « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS
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He grew to nearly twice his original size, his teeth grew long and sharp, talons erupted from his finger tips, and his nose stretched into a snout.
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They have large, black eyes, tapir-like snouts, long flexible fingers terminating in suction cups, twin saucer-like sensory organs atop their heads, and a ridge of spines cresting their skulls.
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This bizarre little fish resembles a large, cream-coloured tadpole with a long, pointed snout.
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Behind her lay a blanket of cold air as icy snouts nuzzled the nape of her neck.
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Even though I do prefer the "hydraulic snout" werewolves to the classic ones, I still can see that the makeup is superb.
Wolves in the Night
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He came up to me, as if knowing his benefactor by instinct, looking curiously about him, and curling and retracting his flexile snout and lip, after the manner of his kind.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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That's BRILLIANT, he bugled later, snout buried in the spoils, envisioning the post-operative Schmeichel recuperating at a luxury Swiss spa retreat, perusing the papers in his waffle slippers while sipping a restorative Schmackos® smoothie.
World of Lather
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I'm pretty sure "snout" houses in Helvetia would sell without billions in subsidies (I could be wrong, maybe they're considering street money pinatas too).
100 pages of poppycock (Jack Bog's Blog)
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Gino held the mask over the dog's snout and waited.
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Similarly, the anchovy-like clupeoids are usually distinctive because of their projecting, pig-like snout, large mouth and ‘underslung’ lower jaw.
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The one on the left is a "snouter" (Points = 10) and the other is a "leaning jowler
Kruse Kronicle
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The sense of smell is keen and the snout is used to probe when searching for food.
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Then repair to the Dragon Ride to come nose to snout with monsters.
Times, Sunday Times
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They showed that the long-snouted species M. superciliosus and M. leedsi had rather straight, robust, blunt-tipped teeth that belonged to the ‘crunch’ feeding guild, while broad-skulled species like M. cultridens had slender, slightly compressed, carinate teeth (carinae = cutting edges) that belonged to the ‘pierce’ guild.
Archive 2006-07-01
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A mammal – characterised by its large body with stocky legs, long snout and plantigrade paws – will, by preference, drop its faeces within a forested area.
Don’t Worry World, Jeff Goldblum Isn’t Dead Yet
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After trailing the champions throughout, it seemed that all Cork needed was to get their snouts in front, but after drawing up alongside their opponents as the game swung in to the final five minutes Cork couldn't eke out a lead.
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On the other hand, for their own analysis Carling et al. used an attenuate isosceles triangle with a blunt snout as their model organism, rather than the profile of an eel.
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They are characterized by a short snout and the loss of almost all their teeth, which were replaced by a turtle-like beak used for cropping vegetation.
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He peered down the tunnel and thought he could see dim, snouty shapes approaching.
A Corridor in the Asylum
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In a flash, Bryn's snout was inches from Zion's nose; his hot, steamy breath fogging up the glasses perched there.
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The epaulette shark's slender body is slightly flattened with a rounded snout, two short nasal barbels, and large spiracles.
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Jewel and Corvi were with Skan; Gesten mostly served (and lectured) Amberdrake these days, but he often stuck his bossy little snout into Skandranon's quarters to make certain that Jewel and Corvi were 'doing things right by the old bird.
The White Gryphon
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Spaced almost evenly a foot or so from one another, dozens upon dozens of the three-inch-long frogs float with their legs extended, hind legs buoyed apart, and snouts above water.
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Beneath the projecting snout there is a small, toothless mouth with thick, sucking lips.
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The tip of the snout is expanded into a naked pink disc which supports 22 finger-like tentacles or feelers which give this creature its name.
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Eyelightfish have a blunt snout, a large upturned mouth, a deeply forked caudal fin, and a light-emitting organ, called a photophore, under each eye.
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Every scrap was eaten, snout, ears, trotters - even the tail was used to flavour soup.
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Apparently, a third of calls to the cheatline relate to household insurance, with snouts telling tales about burglaries that never happened or fires started by ‘accident’.
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The narrow, pointed snout is better for getting the nostrils into small puddles and other bodies, and the vertical ridge at the front of the olfactory chamber seems to anchor a soft-tissue valve that prevents water from being snarfed deep into the olfactory chamber (as would happen with any normal tortoise, were it to try drinking like this).
Archive 2006-02-01
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Bullied by classmates for his long, thin nose - "Anteater snout," they call him, along with "Monster schnoz" and "Elephant honker" - he finally defends his honor by punching the schoolyard leader.
Book review: 'Destiny and Desire' by Carlos Fuentes
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It must be difficult to notice the odd £100,000 or so missing when your snout is buried so deeply in the trough.
Archive 2008-01-01
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Gar species in North America are easily recognized by their long snouts, sharply toothed jaws, non-overlapping and diamond shaped ganoid scales, and posterior placement of dorsal and anal fins on the body.
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In Spinosaurus, the snout is not quite as long, proportionately, and the skull height begins to rise once you hit the antorbital fenestrae, sloping gradually toward the orbits.
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
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I would be doing another role as well: Tom Snout, one of the rude mechanicals in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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Initially growing downwards – like any normal mammalian upper canine – it is then rotated as the alveolus itself turns to force the tooth upwards, and it eventually emerges from the dorsal surface of the snout.
Archive 2006-08-01
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White Sturgeon have been described as opportunistic feeders, feeding on the bottom with their long snouts and using their barbels to detect food.
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The fish shows other features characteristic of land animals, including ribs, a neck, and nostrils on its snout for breathing air.
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Their heads were akin to those of a crocodile, with short yellow teeth protruding over scaled lips, and the long snout jutting forwards.
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Salamanders were measured from the tip of the snout to the anterior end of the cloaca.
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On a mudbank a hundred yards ahead and to my right, shapes were moving - long, brown, hideously scaly dragons waddling down to the water at frightening speed, plashing into the shallows and then gliding out inexorably to head us off, their half-submerged snouts rippling the surface.
Fiancée
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Most believe that, as a police snout, he set them up for lengthy jail sentences.
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When it came within a metre of the canoe, Henri gave it a hard bang on the snout with his paddle.
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Secondary pests and diseases are: snout beetle (Echinocnemus squameus), rice leafroller (Cnapholocrosis medinalis), yellow-legged lema (Lama flavipes), locust (Oxya chinensis), and brown spot (Cochliobolus miyabeanus).
Chapter 4
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With the musculature of these swine, an upward thrust of the snout is impressive with the "cutters" turned slightly outward, the results are most impressive!
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The southern tamandua has an elongated snout and is covered by creamy yellow-brown fur.
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The pliosaur, which also had four flippers and a narrow croc-style snout, was the daddy of plesiosaurs - underwater dinosaur-like beasts.
The Sun
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The meeting on Monday quickly adopted proposals for either the downlisting or upgrading of 32 species, from the Argentinian population of the broad-snouted caiman, a relative of the crocodile, and the pearly mussels in the United States, to the Java sparrow and two rare South Africa trees, the Swartland sugarbush and the marsh rose.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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We had built our base hut on a spit of land near the snout (bottom end) of a huge glacier.
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Termites rush to a breach in their nest and clamp their jaws onto the snout of a marauding anteater, almost guaranteeing their own death.
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The soft tissues of its snout have worn away, leaving the "beaklike" front of its jaw exposed.
Science
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They'll all be there with their snouts in the trough; all grinning smarmily and slapping backs; all trying to outdo each other with acts of screaming political correctness.
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Elephant shrews have elongated snouts and large eyes and ears.
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A long horn projects from the snout, and it is a fac-simile in miniature of the antediluvian monster, the "iguanodon," who was about a hundred feet long and twelve feet thick -- an awkward creature to meet in a narrow road.
Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon
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DuckCroc, about 3 ft. long, had a broad snout for rooting in shallow water and onshore, duck-like, for fish and frogs.
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January 22, 2008 at 4:59 pm teh werms crwl in an teh werms crawl out, teh wirms play pinocle on yer snout, they eat your eyes and then yore nose, they eat teh jelly between yer towz….
I not playin wit you guys - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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The head contains bony plates with short spines at the tip of the snout and anterior to the eye.
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A raised knob at the end of its snout gives it the appearance of having an upturned nose.
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Fowics were like flying squirrels back on Earth, except that their forelimb wings were more fully adapted for flying rather than gliding, and their heads, ears and snouts had a distinctly feline appearance.
The Orphaned Worlds, 1st Draft, 1st Excerpt « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS
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The opprobrium that once attached to informers, snitches, snouts, shoppers and narks in all walks of life no longer exists.
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In the swamps the water shimmered darkly and the slow snouts of alligators made semicircular ripples as they moved forward; water moccasins were curled over looping branches.
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Mary-Claire saw me first and the look of horror on her snouty little face is something I'll never forget.
RESCUING ROSE
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The poor beast made a breenge and got a hat on its snout, and then a fling
The McBrides A Romance of Arran
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Galvin's characters jump off the page at you whether he is describing a tough young cop like Fox or ‘Beano’ his snout.
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There were rodents, bats, elephants and lemurs with pointed snouts and long tails.
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-- "Deep blackish-brown, with a slight rufous reflection in a certain light; fur short, close, soft, and adpressed; tail thick at the base, with a few long very slender straggling hairs along its entire length; ears small and rounded; snout elongated.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
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They are characterized by a short snout and the loss of almost all their teeth, which were replaced by a turtle-like beak used for cropping vegetation.
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Smiling, she put the statuette in the pocket of a clean waistcoat, making sure its soapstone snout could not be seen poking out.
LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
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All tapirs have a short, fleshy proboscis formed by the snout and upper lips.
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All the little piggies who had their snouts well dunked in the swill will be the only ones to lament the passing of these particularly odious pieces of waste.
Tub O'Lard's Legacy Melts Away
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Anteaters have long snouts which they thrust into ant-heaps in order to devour the ants or termites.
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Sturgeon species are noted by a spindle-shaped body with five rows of bony scutes and a long snout with sensory barbels.
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Occasionally I would be rewarded with a wee, twitching, whiskered snout poking out of the little yellow house.
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The council had been handing out grants indiscriminately, and people were hurrying to get their snouts in the trough.
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It still looks snouty and unbalanced in the front, with a clumsy front-axle-to-dash ratio; and even with 18-inch wheels, the "dead-cat holes" in the wheel wells look like they could really accommodate a dead cat.
A Rote SUV From BMW
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Didi is a registered pure-bred gold schipperke, the colour of a golden fox, with foxy ears and a pointy foxy snout.
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Longnose gar have long, narrow snouts more than twice as long as the rest of the head and they have abundant, sharp, villiform teeth.
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The opprobrium that once attached to informers, snitches, snouts, shoppers and narks in all walks of life no longer exists.
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In all probability, his sudden "souse" into the water had astonished Bruin himself; -- from that moment all his thoughts were to provide for his own safety, and, with this intention, he was endeavouring to get back to the surface of the snowdrift, when Alexis first caught sight of his snout.
Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt
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Bury that snout in Haagen-Dasz and go to town!
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I trust the decent people will rally and gets the snouty pencil pushing ones out and put them on uninhabited island to earn their keep if they want to live, so that the decent ones can enjoy the benefits of real living ..
The Inside Story of the Dog Who Changed My Life « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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About a quarter of the whale's body is taken up by its massive snout, properly called the spermaceti organ, which is filled with a very fine grade of oil.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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Many of them featured the "stoej-gnpf," a plump, earnest, snouty creature whom Gorey depicted gazing intently at the address on the envelope or reclining under enigmatic machines.
Gorey's Flights of Fancy
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I used to say that all animals with snouts are cute, but I've had to adjust that view in light of seeing the Tasmanian Devil in person.
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The opprobrium that once attached to informers, snitches, snouts, shoppers and narks in all walks of life no longer exists.
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Hippocampus pontohi, named after Indonesian dive guide Hence Pontoh, is distinguished from other congeners in having a combination of: extremely small size (height 14 mm, standard length 17 mm); 12 trunk rings; 26-28 tail rings; reduced ossification of inferior and ventral trunk ridges; 14 dorsal fin rays; 9-10 pectoral fin rays; anal fin small or absent; brooding area in males anterior to anus; medium length snout which lacks a bulbous tip; raised, angular coronet; fused or almost fused gill-openings on midline behind coronet supported by raised cleithral girdle; scattered tubercles on trunk and tail; distinctive branching filaments
Practical Fishkeeping news (RSS)
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Looking only a dorsal fin short of the extinct ichthyosaur species, the long snout and distinctive white markings suggest it is actually a sterlet, which is a breed of sturgeon.
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I could labour at a description of his snouty nose and mouth,
TESTIMONIES
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He laughed and thumped the table in appreciation, then twisted his fist in front of his nose, miming a snout.
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They showed that the long-snouted species M. superciliosus and M. leedsi had rather straight, robust, blunt-tipped teeth that belonged to the ‘crunch’ feeding guild, while broad-skulled species like M. cultridens had slender, slightly compressed, carinate teeth (carinae = cutting edges) that belonged to the ‘pierce’ guild.
Archive 2006-07-01
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All tapirs have a short, fleshy proboscis formed by the snout and upper lips.
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The caudal fin is yellow-brown, and the dorsal spine and long snout are orange.
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The tip of the snout is expanded into a naked pink disc which supports 22 finger-like tentacles or feelers which give this creature its name.
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He has got, moreover, as "tall" a tail as the tamanoir, very nearly as long a snout, a mouth equally small, and a tongue as extensive and extensile.
The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family
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She told me 2 people had told her that she should carry some rolled up newspaper, and when her dog 'misbehaved' she should smack the dog across the snout.
Contest: Tell Us Your Best Dog Training Tip. Win Free Gear.
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Our spaniel parks herself by my head so that her snout and ears are on my face.
Times, Sunday Times
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Know then, that I have had a Barbet brought me from France, so exactly like the Sultan that he has been mistaken for him several times; only his snout is shorter, and his ears longer than the Sultan's.
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1753-54
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Rather, they find food via the sensitive touch of their 600 to 700 vibrissae, or whiskers, which have been likened to multifingered hands on the animals' snouts.
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It did not seem at all, though I viewed it a good while as it was sucking, to thrust more of its nose into the skin then the very snout D, nor did it cause the least discernable pain, and yet the blood seem'd to run through its head very quick and freely, so that it seems there is no part of the skin but the blood is dispers'd into, nay, even into the _cuticula_; for had it thrust its whole nose in from D to CC, it would not have amounted to the supposed thickness of that _tegument_, the length of the nose being not more then a three hundredth part of an inch.
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon
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The caudal fin is yellow-brown, and the dorsal spine and long snout are orange.
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Any of various sharks of the family Lamnidae, including the great white shark, mako, and porbeagle , having a pointed snout, a nearly symmetrical tail, and a reputation for aggressiveness.
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Hippocampus satomiae is distinguished from congeners in having a combination of: extremely small size (height 11 mm, standard length 14 mm); 12 trunk rings; 27-28 tail rings; reduced ossification of inferior and ventral trunk ridges; 13 dorsal fin rays; 9 pectoral fin rays; anal fin small or absent; brooding area in males anterior to anus; well-developed spine on snout between eyes; distinct raised coronet with laterally expanded anterior and posterior flanges ( 'H-shaped' when viewed from above); snout without a bulbous tip; single gill opening on midline directly behind coronet supported by raised cleithral bone; large spines above eyes
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In a sexual behavior known as 'nipping,' males contact their snouts to the female genital area prior to copulation.
Carin Bondar: Excuse Me... I Think You've Got Something Stuck on Your Upper Lip
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The door creaked open and a furred snout poked out.
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Appropriately named, the humpback chub has a small head and snout, a streamlined gray body streaked with silver, and a prominent hump along its back.
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Ay, ye're reet tul a trippet, thar; for Beelzebub dar'n't show his snout inside the church, not the length o 'the black o' my nail.
Madam Crowl's Ghost and the Dead Sexton
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Shovel-nosed frogs are smooth-skinned and small, with short, stout forelimbs and small heads with pointy snouts.
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The snout of peccaries has the same mobile cartilaginous disk and terminal nostrils as pigs.
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Then, fool, you ought to have had a slipper smacked across that Kalmuck snout of yours.
Through Russia
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About the size of a very large chicken, it had a long neck and tail and a peculiar thin, beak-like snout lined with small and widely spaced teeth.
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There is a tradition of roasted suckling pig with a red egg in its snout.
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There were rodents, bats, elephants and lemurs with pointed snouts and long tails.
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He strung it up by its ankles from the branch of a pine tree, placed a five gallon pickle bucket under its snout, and deftly sliced open its jugular veins.
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But we should not be sticking our snout in there.
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While I was browsing my National Geographic, the title reached out and punched me in the snout.
I'm too young to be this old
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It placed its huge snout in my hand and took out the offering before heading off to munch away.
The Sun
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Taylor Glacier, its snout reddened by iron, drains into Lake Bonney.
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Dan Neil / The Wall Street Journal This is a big car, but it's mostly a long, snouty car, and sometimes the front wheels feel like they are in Saxony.
BMW 640i
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They have long snouts, small eyes, large, clawed feet and long nearly naked tails.
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The backward developmental sequence suggests that ancestral star -nosed moles might have had strips of sensory organs lying flat against the sides of the snout.
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I measured body length from snout to base of the tail for all animals captured since 1988.
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First described for a partial snout from the Brazilian Santana Formation, Tupuxuara longicristatus Kellner & Campos, 1988 is a toothless Cretaceous pterosaur with a rather long, subtriangular skull.
Those sexy tupuxuarids
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It would not be fair to ignore some of the better snouts like David Taylor Con (NW Leics) £1.45, Malcolm Moss Con (NE Cambs) £2.18, Mike O'Brien Lab (N Warwicks) £1. 47and Paul Clarke Lab (Gillingham) the PPS to Ed Balls who clocked up a whopping £4.10 per mile!
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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.
When a Pug and a Beagle Fall in Love, It's a Puggle
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For dogs of moderate aggressiveness, a sharp whack on the snout with a drumstick is usually enough.
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There's some line about the worms playing pinochle in your snout.
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