Did you ever see a lot of hot swill put in a trough, an every single hog in the pen would go an stick in his snoot an get it burned?
"Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia"
Seba Smith
Maurice was simple and homely about it, seeking rhetorical vigour rather than elegance; in fact, what he definitely promised Master Chitten was "a bang on the snoot."
"Penrod and Sam"
Booth Tarkington
Gin I haena the rheumateese screwin' awa' atween my shoothers the nicht it wonna be their fau'ts; for as I cam' ower frae the ironmonger's there, I jist got a ba' i' the how o' my neck, 'at amaist sent me howkin' wi' my snoot i' the snaw.
"Alec Forbes of Howglen"
George MacDonald