sniffle

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Here we were interrupted by the cry of another Rancey Sniffle.

From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney

"Yas, in course, if I swar to a lie, they'll send me to the penitentiary, and then I'll go to hell afterwards," replied Mr. Sniffle.

From Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective by Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing)

The competency of the witness thus appearing, the foreman proceeded: "Now, Mr. Sniffle, do you, under the solemn sanction of an oath, undertake to say that my son Josiah was engaged in that game?"

From Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective by Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing)

Sam Sniffle wor a karacter in his way, he seemed to have a bit ov a smatterin' o' iverything, but what he professed to know th' mooast abaat wor dogs an rats.

From Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley by Hartley, John