A protest hovered on her lips, but the horse merely snorted and went on eating.

'Your pardon, my prince,' was the best reply I could think of, and he merely snorted at it.

He merely snorted again, and turned back to watch the column of men filing past, but he was smiling nonetheless.

Shocked at the statement, Rachel started to respond, but Nick merely snorted and answered for himself.

The bishop merely snorted dismissively as the weather-beaten man left.

Daniel merely snorted, then leaned in close to whisper in her ear.

But one visitor merely snorted at it all.

"I might have been innocent," Josh objected, to which his mother merely snorted.

Gladia was sure of that, too, but she merely snorted.

I merely snorted at this piece of prevarication, and sat down next to him on another chunk of granite.