Listen for gentle snorting. Snorting and ramping, the unicorn came leading the grand march. -- Charles Finney, The Circus of Dr. Lao (1935) In Blue Moon Rising (1991), Simon Green documents the snorting sound of a unicorn. As Mercedes Lackey explains in The Outstretched Shadow (2004), unicorns have "expressive nostrils." A unicorn's gentle snorting can sound: like contained laughter impatient critical friendly inviting like a choking cough dismissive contented cautiously optimistic like a gleeful assertion hungry startled