289 collocations for snapped

" Dr. Schermerhorn snapped his fingers.

Pa told them there was no danger at all, 'cause he would take any elephant by the tail and snap its head off, like boys snap the heads off garter snakes, and I told them that me and the senator's boy stampeded the elephants and we could drive them back to town like a drove of sheep.

They called him "bad," and stepped wide of him, and never missed the chance to snap a whip over his back.

V. be discontinuous &c adj.; alternate, intermit, sputter, stop and start, hesitate. discontinue, pause, interrupt; intervene; break, break in upon, break off; interpose &c 228; break the thread, snap the thread; disconnect &c (disjoin) 44; dissever.

One big buffalo bull became entangled in one of the heavy wagon-chains, and it is a fact that in his desperate efforts to free himself, he not only actually snapped the strong chain in two, but broke the ox-yoke to which it was attached, and the last seen of him he was running towards the hills with it hanging from his horns.

The man snapped his teeth at him like a wolf in a trap.

He quarrelled with Franz, and in 1810 one day in a frenzy snapped the bond with Thérèse.

In consequence of that idea, I opened the back of the watch, and discoveredthat!" He snapped open the case of the watch as he spoke and showed Allerdyke, neatly cut out to a circle, neatly fitted into the case, a photographthe photograph of James Allerdyke!

" "Protected!" snapped out an anxious, cast-iron-looking man at the rudder.

" He flopped shut his book, snapping a rubber band about it and inserting it in an inner coat pocket.

If Elizabeth could bring herself, out of respect to her wounded honor and slighted kindness and the dignity of the realm and the majesty of the law, to surrender into the hands of justice one whom she so tenderly loved and magnificently rewarded, even when the sacrifice cost her both peace and life, snapped the last cord which bound her to this world,may we not forgive Bacon for the part he played?

gritted the other, as he snapped the pistol straight at the head of the man.

" He snapped his lantern jaws, and grinned in Nal's face.

" Rawlins snapped off his light.

"Look, Mrs. Finshriber, how for a woman her age she snaps her black eyes at him.

Permanent captivity in a foreign land and in a servile condition snapped these ties once and for all.

"Come, forest knave," quoth he, "I know a trick to snap thy neck so sweetly shalt never know, I warrant thee.

No," she added, her dark eyes snapping fire, "I want them to leave just one.

Inspector Chippenfield dexterously snapped a pair of handcuffs on the young man's wrists.

" "I guess not," observed the other, calmly; "you see I'm prepared to snap off a flashlight picture at any old time.

" The Frenchman snapped out the word, watching the other's benevolent countenance.

With the animal opposite me, I placed a piece of banana in the box, then closed the lid and snapped the padlock.

The gentlemen snapped the stems of their glasses to honour the sacredness of the toast, and there was such a shouting and pledging as might well have turned a girl's head.

" He snapped an order to the soldiers and vaulted nimbly into the basket.

Thank you!" Will kept his position for a little while, and every few minutes seemed to find a chance to snap off another view.

289 collocations for  snapped