There was a sharp snap and a cry of pain.

There was a silence, during which Maggie unclasped a bracelet with a little snap of the spring.

A sudden snap, and that inquisitive fish is inside a huge, toad-like mouth, well furnished with rows of sharp teeth.

Faster and faster he ran, but nearer and nearer sounded the frightful screams until, just as he felt two huge claws close on his neck, there was a bump, a loud snap, and he felt himself being carried high in the air.

With an angry snap, Kazan drove her back, and she stood quivering and whining while he advanced.

It was a delightful September afternoon, with a brisk snap in the air and floods of sunshine.

I mean real pictures of the real thingfellows knee-deep in mud, and a shell lobbing in, and such likereal dandy snaps.

There was a fierce snap of jaws, a scream of horror from Joan, a shout from the men as they leaped toward the pack.

" Jason's jest the slickest scamp, Full of jokes as he can hold; Says he beats Aladdin's lamp, Givin' out new stuff fer old; "Buy your rags fer more 'n they're worth, Give yer bran'-new, shiny tin, I'm the softest snap on earth," Says old Jason, with a grin.

Again and again the stag would charge, growing more furious at every failure; and every time the wolf leaped aside he left a terrible gash in his enemy's neck or side, punishing him cruelly for his bullying attack, yet strangely refusing to kill, as he might have done, or to close on the hamstring with one swift snap that would have put the big brute out of the fight forever.

" Miss McQuinch gave an expressive snap, but said nothing; and the conversation dropped until Miss Lind had sung her song, and received a round of respectful but not enthusiastic applause.

The monster was striving to get beneath him for the fatal snap!

Although the Shamán took the offerings his little black eyes glittered none the less rapaciously, as they flew swiftly round the room, falling at last with a vicious snap and gleam upon the Boy.

The rabid, furious snaps drive the teeth through flesh and bone.

My dogs were lying round me blinking and winking, and making an occasional futile snap at an imaginary fly or flea.

the warmer climate, or something else, sent him back again, with a real bound, just as Barbara's gave a gentle little snap, and they both dropped quietly down against the fender together.

But he had not the inherent snap which makes for crime.

For the moment the temperature is on the -20°an improvement which makes us much more comfortable, but a colder snap is bound to come again soon.

And because there was a vacation freedom in the very atmosphere, sometimes they stole into the big living-room of the Road House, two or three at a time; and lying in the shadowy twilight they would listen, in drowsy content, to the cheery snap of the wood in the huge ruddy stove, and to the voices of their friends as they talked of the North, its hardships, its happiness, its hopes.

In another instant there came the sound of a metallic snap.

So he went away, shutting the door after him in a contented way, not sharply as if he were annoyed with her, nor very softly and considerately as if he were sorry for her, but with a moderate, businesslike snap of the latch as if everything were all right.

My dogs were lying round me blinking and winking, and making an occasional futile snap at an imaginary fly or flea.

He even recalled a curious evidence of exalted sensibility and irritability, in the twitching of the minute muscles of the internal ear at every unexpected sound, producing an odd little snap in the middle of the head, that proved to him he was getting very nervous.

He hauls in all Proverbs, "Flowers," Poetical snaps [snatches], Tales out of the Dictionary, or else ready Latined to his hand, out of LYCOSTHENES.

The forelegs of Alcatraz began to grow numb below the shoulder; his knees bowed and refused to give the shock its primal snap; to the very withers he was an increasing ache.