Word: snort
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...most casual reader to pause for a moment and think. Mr. Lewis has a very interesting idea, apparently instilled into him by his tutor, which he presents somewhat vaguely. But the article is more than worth the time consumed in reading it, if only to allow one to snort in disagreement and to turn on to something requiring less thought, which latter seems rapidly becoming a favorite with the majority of contemporary readers...
...broadened, bringing with it more of the terrifying odors; a snort of alarm, figures of men and horses galloping from concealment, the crack of rifles, carnage. As survivors of the herd thundered off into fastnesses of their island (18 miles long, five wide), they could not know the worst: that this was no casual foray by human meat-hunters, but slaughter by up-to-date sportsmen, with intent to decimate. Not hunger but commercialism had precipitated the onslaught. The buffalo of Antelope Island were doomed, all but about 50 of them, to make way for more manageable and profitable cattle...
...intensely admired technique was this: with his stentorian auctioneer's voice he would bellow, snort and puff and a draw a crowd; well observed, he then swooped a blanket over his head, writhed, snored, groaned, popped forth drenched with sweat (even "on the coldest day") and cried out fresh news from Allah. Frantic scribes would hasten to scrawl his syllables, whether intelligible or not, upon palm leaves, leather, stones, bones, or the breasts of bystanders. Each utterance was a sura (verse); the collection became the Koran, a marvelous conglomeration of divine edicts, personal justifications of and promises to Mohammed...
...radio world was optimistic. Said the New York Herald Tribune: "The day will come when all that is necessary to hear the King's speech to Parliament or the snort of the sacred white elephant in Siam will be to tune...
...graduates may snort at this addition to Harvard Square diversions, and point out that the subway and Boston were plenty good enough for them, but it can be urged in defense that their undergraduate lives were not spent in a constant retreat from automobiles. They needed no relaxation. One feels, especially after the daily, narrow escape, that Harvard Square seems to be getting rather out of bend anyway...