Stood for a moment, her plumage drooping damply to her shoulders, blue foulard dress snagged in two places, her gold mesh bag with the sapphire-and-diamond top hanging low from the crook of her little finger.

We are like to run across more than one such snag, an', what is worse, don't have a clear idea of whether we shall come plump on to the fort, or go a considerable distance to one side of it.

We found that one of the paddle-wheels was caught in a snag, but there was no harm done.

"When I look out upon the river, I wonder that boats are not continually snagged.

"A yawl, which was sent out yesterday to sound, was snagged by a stump which was high out of water; probably they were carried on to it by a current.

The land is full of wrecks hopelessly snagged upon indigestible diet.

"Even if we came swat up against one of those floaters, that's no reason we'd be snagged and sunk.

The boats were of no use for the purpose, one of them getting snagged immediately, and it was clear that it would be easier to follow the river on land.

Should not those Gladstone girls be ready to snag themselves?

The animal had, to use the teamster's phrase, been snagged, and was obliged to be shot.

The stream was hurrying them into a most frightful snag; escape was hopeless; so the boatman opened the conversation with this startling question: BOATMAN.Can you swim, sir? PHILOSOPHER.No, that I can't.

one's spirits fortified by the sight of a vessel or two that has been snagged, and which the indignant stream appears to have left there as a gentle hint for travellers.

but with a kind of mysterious smile, and a "I hope we sha'n't be snagged to-night!"

I told him so, adding, that if he deserted us, we should be sure to get snagged, or something worse.

My first idea was, "We are snagged;" then, remembering how slight the concussion had been, I calmed my fears and turned over on my side, determined to bottle off a little more sleep if possible.

It appears that 47 boats were lost by being snagged, 16 by explosions, 4 were burnt, and the others lost by collision and other mishaps.

The total loss of life exceeds 400 persons.[Q] Here is a list of one hundred and sixty-two vessels of different kinds, and four hundred human beings, lost in one year; of which vessels it appears forty-six were snagged.

The captains of the boats told me that two dozen snag-boats in three years would clear the river; and that half that number could keep it clear; yet, rather than vote the money requisite, they exhibit a national indifference to the safety of life and property such as, I may confidently affirm, cannot be found in any other civilized nation.

He went at them systematically, however, only to run against a snag within the hour.

At the last of the ebb, a snag over near the shore would suddenly add on another angle and jab down in the water, coming up again with a shiver and a fish.

I'll bet you these blamed fools are going to strike a snag one of these days, or they'll leave things so that there'll be a fall-down.

but this would be a poor place to get snagged in," when bang! says a rifle right in front of us, and m-e-arr!

"Jim, we have struck a snag.

I snagged my dress on a brier every step, and had to move by inches.

o' a thing lik a snagged foal, an' gie the tod such a dirl 'ith heed, that he kilt him deed's a herrin, an' we micht a' witness the same by gannin to the Shouther o' Birkin Brae."