The performance, like all things Oriental, like the life, the patterns, the stories, seemed to have no beginning and no end: it just went monotonously and indefatigably on till fate snipped its thread by calling us away to dinner.

and she snipped off a rose with a kind of miniature brusqueness.

The king was in the parlor, Counting out his money; The queen was in the kitchen, Eating bread and honey; The maid was in the garden, Hanging out the clothes; There came a little blackbird, And snipped off her nose.

What is the case?" "Hanged if I know," answered Mike, snipping a piece of fluff off his judgeship's shoulder.

Then he searched in a box till he found another spring, which he put in instead of the broken one, after snipping off a little bit with a pair of pincers.

" "I think I'll make a covering for a glass bowl we have at home," declared Ethel Brown, who was diligently snipping ends of stems as she listened.

" They soon reached the tailor's, which was not far from the office, on the same street; and Mr. O'Brallaghan came forward, scissors in hand, and smiling, like a great ogre, who was going to snip off people's heads, and eat them for his breakfastonly to satisfy his hunger, not from any malevolent feeling toward them.

" "You must have taken an immense interest in it," she said, as she snipped some dried leaves off a twig of geranium she had cut.

A fop at the court of Queen Anne, one Lord Petre, snipped a lock of hair from the abundant curls of a pretty maid of honor named Arabella Fermor.

It rather looked as if she were meaning to snip off Alan Massey figuratively in much the same ruthless manner.

It rather looked as if she were meaning to snip off Alan Massey figuratively in much the same ruthless manner.

That is, break the shell carefully and snip the outer shell membrane, thus opening the space between the outer and inner membranes.

But mistress wedlock, to my scholar-thoughts, Will be too curs'd, I fear: O, should she snip My pleasure-aiming mind, I shall be sad, And swear, when I did marry, I was mad!

"Very well, Dot; if you think 'twould be any consolation to you to have somebody come along with a pair of scissors, and snip off your pocket, I don't know as it's any of my business.

" "Why, Agricola," said the doctor, snipping the loose ravellings from his patient's bandages, "an old man like you should not have enemies.

Now, I thought I had been sitting still long enough, and so I snipped off the rest of the doctor story and got myself across that field with pretty long steps.

" "The next step must be to snip the rind into these long, narrow shavings.

For a moment, he stood gazing with profound contempt upon the letter which he had just read; then seizing his shears, snipped the unfortunate sheet into microscopic fragments, all the while frowning with terrible intensity.

" She took them laughingly, and snipped the green stems rapidly and dexterously.

A benevolent zoologist one day started in to help the tadpole by snipping off the tadpole's tail; he made a frog of him in a hurry, but the strange thing was that that frog never was able to leap properly.

In the town in which I reside, in the north of England, the word Snob was formerly applied to a cobbler, and the phrase was in use, "Snip the tailor, and Snob the cobbler.

Stars and "Georges" were snipped off ambassadors and peers as they entered St. James's Palace.

I snipped off a little tuft of hair and carried it to the laboratory where the microscope stood on the bench under its bell-glass.

At the door two nurses in whiteso calm and clean and strong that they must have seemed like goddesses, in that reek of steam and disinfectants and festering woundsreceived them, asked each man how he was wounded, and quickly, as if he were a child, snipped off his bandages, unless the leg or arm were in a cast, and turned him over to the orderlies.

Still hungry, I observed that Cousin Charles and Alice had finished; and though she shook her spoon in the cup, feigning to continue, and he snipped crumbs in his plate, I felt constrained to end my repast.