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Definition of Snibs
1. snib [v] - See also: snib
Lexicographical Neighbors of Snibs
Literary usage of Snibs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Magazine, Or, British Register by Richard Phillips (1841)
"replied snibs, " the rolls are so nice, I couldn't resist I — Nice shrimps, a'nt
they? ... replied snibs, carelessly, at the same time finishing his roll ..."
2. The Chief Elizabethan Dramatists, Excluding Shakespeare by William Allan Neilson (1911)
"Mnl. Faith, like a pair of snuffers, snibs filth in other men, and retains it in
himself. so Л/а/. I can track him, Celso. О, my disguise fools him most ..."
3. The Chief Elizabethan Dramatists, Excluding Shakespeare by William Allan Neilson (1911)
"Faith, like a pair of snuffers, snibs filth in other men, and retains it in himself.
a» .'/к/. I can track him, Celso. О, my disguise fools him most ..."
4. A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne by Adolphus William Ward (1899)
"Faith, like a pair of snuffers—snibs filth in other men, and retains it in itself.'
(Act iii. sc. 3.) Or again (act iii. sc. 4!: ' Men. When we are duke, ..."
5. A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne by Adolphus William Ward (1875)
"Faith, like a pair of snuffers—snibs filth in other men, and retains it in
itself (iii. 3.) Or again (iii. 4) : • Men. When we are duke, I '11 make thee ..."
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