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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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