The dirty white horse had drifted nosily over to watch us. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
You glance sideways nosily glancing down at a student, at me. From Wordnik.com. [rouflaquette Diary Entry] Reference
It was just an innocent animal walking nosily across the leaves. From Wordnik.com. [The Pilgrimage] Reference
Her entourage hovers nosily in the doorway to the standard-sized guest room. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-02] Reference
So cold that your breath freezes in mid-air, and drops nosily onto the surface below. From Wordnik.com. [the glass road. .] Reference
Every time he picks up a new book, I become immediately, pestily, nosily interested in it. From Wordnik.com. [Lesley M. M. Blume: Grande Dames, River Boats, and Bon Mots: What I'm Thankful For This Year] Reference
These ideas would not require the government poking nosily into every corner of our business. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Soros on Principles of Financial Regulation and Efficient Market Hypothesis:] Reference
So, if you nosily want to know what I buy at the grocery store yes, I naughtily included a donut today, you can go HERE. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference
Peanut, only 15, is in the den, shuffling her Organic Chemistry, Calculus and Home Economics books nosily and conspicuously. From Wordnik.com. [The The Three Sisters] Reference
Peanut, only 15, is in the den, shuffling her Organic Chemistry, Calculus and Home Economics books nosily and conspicuously. From Wordnik.com. [The The Three Sisters] Reference
Even when having dinner with friends, he seemed withdrawn and often sat quietly chain-smoking as others chattered nosily around him. From Wordnik.com. ['Baby Doc' returned - like he told me he would] Reference
Zach had concocted a story to tell Emily and any of the other neighbors who might nosily inquire about the change of plants in his walkway. From Wordnik.com. [Just Take My Heart] Reference
Defying New York expectations, rather than nosily inspecting the renovations for objectionable changes, the Hoyt Street Association is fêting the new arrivals. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Co-op Swap: Burch Family Trades Co-ops at the Pierre] Reference
Bookstores with cafes are the worst — blenders whirring, milk being steamed nosily, lots of mindless chatter and the clattering of plates and forks and spoons in the background. From Wordnik.com. [In Their Words: Patricia Klindienst (part 5)] Reference
There was no resistance when Helena put them sharing a bedroom — yet when she poked her head around the door nosily she came back to whisper that they had made up two different beds. From Wordnik.com. [Two For The Lions]
The bartender/server has only slightly more room to wander away from me than would a veal calf, there are people clustered on both sides, and I can nosily see what the drink of the hour is. From Wordnik.com. [Biscuit Power - Town Hall, San Francisco] Reference
Your Employer May Be Watching The clipboard toting, clock-watching, quota-setting productivity expert, peering nosily over your shoulder at work, has been out of fashion in business schools for decades. From Wordnik.com. [Work at Home?] Reference
I spent the day browsing the boutiques euros still felt like Monopoly money and were therefore tons easier to spend than my hard-earned pounds and peering nosily through iron gates at the secret courtyards inside. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Lady Agency and the Prince] Reference
The streets were already full with the sun not all the way up, wagons and carts wending their way nosily through the crowds and windblown dust to shouts and curses both from drivers and those forced to get out of the way. From Wordnik.com. [A Crown of Swords]
The globalized economy is a work in progress, and if it disintegrates into a melee of unsupervised markets and contentious nations, people may recall nostalgically the days when they nosily complained about Washington's overbearing leadership. From Wordnik.com. [NOT SO SUPER ANYMORE] Reference
And the candidates most of whom are the Democrats but also Rudy Giuliani who are calling for an unimpeded rush to election don't nosily know what they will be getting and I think we need to really sort of assess the candidates on the basis of that. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 30, 2007] Reference
The newcomer was surrounded and questioned nosily. From Wordnik.com. [Tartarin De Tarascon] Reference
It was supper time and the mess hall was bustling nosily. From Wordnik.com. [Wraithbait] Reference
Keith sucked his teeth nosily as he nodded slowly, contemplating this rebuttal. From Wordnik.com. [PopMatters] Reference
About 30 family and friends decked out in black nosily greeted 13 of the women's World. From Wordnik.com. [Stuff.co.nz - Stuff] Reference
How different was all this from the nosily fierce and clumsily absurd manner of labor-life in Baltimore and St. Michael's!. From Wordnik.com. [My Bondage and My Freedom] Reference
So anyway, I was eaves dropping nosily at the door when they were talking about the album cover and I arrogantly said "Why don't I do it?". From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
Even better is the moment when the camera races up the aisle of a packed auditorium just as Lena, who's giving a reading, realizes that Nicholas has nosily entered. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page]
The White Hart Lane crowd, sensing blood, responded nosily to the sending-off and Spurs began to assert their dominance, with Lennon continuing to take a starring role. From Wordnik.com. [Sport news, comment and results | guardian.co.uk] Reference
But that's not a bad thing if the CBC believes it has the right vision, understands people who oppose its stands will nosily leave the organization, and is not afraid of increasing voter turnout in local elections. From Wordnik.com. [Blueweeds] Reference
Henry has travelled far a-field, and nosily. From Wordnik.com. [The morning after The Last Cigarette] Reference
'I am Cheorge Dargo,' he murmured nosily. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
She herself then nosily sent down a pail. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortune of the Rougons] Reference
Sirens wailed nosily throughout the ship. From Wordnik.com. [Enemy in the Dark]
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