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And to Bob, who had turned his head and was up to his playful nuzzling:-

He was a tiny little shaggy moor pony with thick locks hanging over his eyes and with a pretty face and a nuzzling velvet nose.

My horror and astonishment are not to be described, when I observed in this abominable animal, a perfect human figure: the face of it indeed was flat and broad, the nose depressed, the lips large, and the mouth wide; but these differences are common to all savage nations, where the lineaments of the countenance are distorted, by the natives suffering their infants to lie grovelling on the earth, or by carrying them on their backs, nuzzling with their face against the mothers' shoulders.

Billy the Mule stumped off with the swaggering limp of an old campaigner, as the troop-horse's head came nuzzling into my breast, and I gave him biscuits, while Vixen, who is a most conceited little dog, told him fibs about the scores of horses that she and I kept.

'My little man is the sweetest ever!' she wrote alongside a photo of herself nuzzling up next to her baby boy.

My old cat Guinness loved nothing more than butting me when nuzzling in for a cuddle.

Clare Taylor Reeves had just bought eightyear-old Frankie when the mare began nuzzling her.

Clare Taylor Reeves had just bought eight-year-old Frankie when the mare began nuzzling her.

"She has been nuzzling me every second," Gerdisch said.

As we stopped at traffic lights, I saw in the wing-mirror that it was nuzzling the bloke's face, and the bloke was nuzzling right back, stroking the cat behind the ears and talking to it gently.

The female was in distress on the water, and when I picked up one of the smashed eggs she came over to me and started nuzzling at the remains.

DALLAS -- The newest giraffe at the Dallas Zoo has millions of fans just days after its birth thanks to a camera streaming live video of the calf playing and nuzzling with its mother.