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...gnaw my name like a bone; And Prue says, “Mine’s a patient man, As never snaps me up,” And Agatha, “Arth’ is a hug the hearth, Could live content ...

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...bristling, clipping his teeth together in a continuous and rapid succession of snaps. Buck did not attack, but circled him about and hedged him in wit...

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...o sort of sense about it! Just you all over.’ “He takes up the head, which snaps at his finger, and pitches it out into the yard. “‘Get on with my ome... ...rth taking; he pitches them into the wa- ter, beats them on the mountains, snaps at them in the air, gobbles them up on the earth, and thrashes them e...

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... poop dart- ing gloomy glances, as though he wished to poison the sea, and snaps your head off savagely whenever you happen to blunder within earshot....

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...natural to feel when you bind yourself for life, and know how easily a man snaps such ties? The bourgeoises, with whom you compared me just now, give ...

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...e surface. A little while, and, without a nod of warning, the huge pine-tree snaps off short across the ground and falls prostrate with a crash. Mean-...

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...ned from the forest—at first it shivers in the wind by night, then at last snaps at the stump and crashes down; so T alos for a while stood on his tir...

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...ar on it… His own, he mutters… Whose else revolver did you expect to find? snaps the coxswain. And look, he took off his long oilskin in the cabin bef...

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... hoped for Diana to make a splendid marriage. The nibbles threatened to be snaps and bites. There had been a proposal, in an epistle, a quaint effusio... ...dn’t suggest it,’ he said. ‘But Dannisburgh’s an old hand. But they say he snaps his fingers at tattle, and laughs. Well, it doesn’t matter for him, p...

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...gh mine, and hold it steady, and I shan’t hurt you!” In a trice Mr. Bucket snaps a handcuff on her wrist. “That’s one,” says Mr. Bucket. “Now the othe... ...u old man, grey. I pity you, and I despise you!” With these last words she snaps her teeth together as if her mouth closed with a spring. It is imposs...

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...e sun-parched gaping seams of the boat herself. ‘First the bloomin’ rudder snaps,’ said he to the world in general; ‘then the mast goes; an’ then, s’ ...

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... L3 3 0 Grapnels, mushroom—anchors, pithing-irons, winches, haw- sers, snaps, shackles and mooring ropes, for lawn, city, and public installations...

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...nd grappling by their sides. A wolf, you must know, flies at the throat or snaps at the flank, while a dhole, by preference, bites at the belly; so wh...

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...t the stuff (Gummy! What a sentence!) T o hold fast where a steel chain snaps And leave the grand white neck no gash. (Full stop.)” “‘Don’t unde...

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...dashes up; the Copper-face menaces and bellows, draws pistol, perhaps even snaps it; is nevertheless seized by the collar; is tied firm, ancles under ...

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...variations: “Scissors to grind!” “Chick-weeds for singing bir-ds!” “Brandy-snaps, ladies!” “China to mend!” “Boat ahoy!” “Sticks to beat your wives or...

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...face. “By Jove!” I say in English. “They’ve got our doubles!” The botanist snaps his fingers. “Of course! I didn’t think of that.” “Do you mind,” I sa... ... will be a great multitude of other impressions. There will be many bright snapshots of little children, for example, of girls and women and men, seen...

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...by hundreds; fat leathern bags for five franc pieces, closing with violent snaps, like discharges of fire arms, by thousands; more luggage in a mornin...

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...hat,’ returned Miss W ren, snapping her fingers in a volley of impa- tient snaps, ‘for I don’t like Hexam.’ ‘Indeed?’ ‘No.’ Miss W ren wrinkled her no...

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...a man who insists on capturing you and lets it be seen he doesn’t care two snaps of a finger?’ Aminta petitioned on his behalf indifferently: ‘He ‘s w...