Racey had told the truth when he spoke of Thompson as a good snap shot.

Sun-gilded trees and flower-beds gay with blossom; lupins, snap-dragons, nasturtiums, spiry foxgloves, and mighty hollyhocks formed the foreground; over which a pair of sulphur-tinted butterflies flitted, unmindful of a buxom and miraculously clean white cat which pursued them, dancing across the borders and clapping her snowy paws fruitlessly in mid-air.

But to know them, you must hunt for them,tramp off to the distant stream, and then, not stand on the bank and wish and sigh, but off hose and shoon, and, careless of water-snake and snapping-turtle, wade in up to their virgin bower, and bear off the dripping, fragrant prize.

" "Did anybody come in?" "Oh, no, sir; the front door has a snap-lock.

By one o'clock the incessant roaring, crashing, and splintering of bursting shells had become almost unendurable to our nerves, which were already strained to the snapping-point by the lack of action and the expectancy.

It is said that the term was derived from the Dutch snap-haans (poultry stealers), a set of marauders who made use of it" (Lilly's Dramatic Works, ed.

But however that may be, so many painters nowadays have recourse to the assistance of photography that M. Zola's 'snap-shotting' largely helped to bear out the account which I had given of him at the hotel.

" The Major, limbering up his wireless instruments, sent a message snap-snapping across the frozen expanse.

Nonoall the sentences a man can turn, even if he made them in pure taste, and not in Tom's snip-snap taste of the lower empire,all won't avail against a rotten morality.

This fault is frequently discernible in impulsive people, who notoriously make snap-judgments, which means that they decide before canvassing all the evidence.

Do it a little longer and I'll put you in the way of touching off a set-piece of pyrotechnics that will double discount this mild little snap-cracker of the Belmount business.