25 examples of snap-shot in sentences

He put down the paper; then picked it up again and regarded a snap-shot illustration occupying a conspicuous position on the society page.

Soon he disappeared through the shop, whilst she still found herself hopelessly bewildered, with a number of snap-shot photographs before her, still staring at a long piece of string, smothered from end to end in a series of knots, as bewildering, as irritating, as puzzling as the man who had lately sat in the corner.

ERRINGTON "Did you ever see Mr. Errington, the gentleman so closely connected with the mysterious death on the Underground Railway?" asked the man in the corner as he placed one or two of his little snap-shot photos before Miss Polly Burton.

I took it myself some time ago, and only wish I had been cheeky or lucky enough to get a snap-shot of the interior.

I'd like to get a snap-shot of the worm that gets away from him.

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.

Well, it was a case of the biter bitten, and when Desmond exposed his hand there came a look upon the sharp's face that can never be described, but which might be photographed with a snap-shot machine.

Upon the mantelshelf were many photographs, some of them snap-shots of her schoolfellows and souvenirs of holidays, the odds and ends of portraits and scenes which every girl unconsciously collects.

[Illustration] CHAPTER XI KAIPI PERFORMS A SERVICE The Professor used a roll of films in snap-shotting the stone table while we were breaking camp.

The deceased miner wrote his letter to Dick seated in the doorway of a hut; a chance photographer took a snap-shot at him; and on returning to England, the chance photographer has nothing more pressing to do than to chance upon the one man who knows the long-lost son, and to show him the photograph of the dying miner, whom he at once recognizes.

We must remember that a general statement is merely a snap-shot at flying truth, an instantaneous photograph of a moving body.

For a week, perhaps, you go hurtling through a closely articulated programme almost as personally helpless as a package in a pneumatic tubenight expresses, racing military motors, snap-shots at this and that, down a bewildering vista of long gray capes, heel clickings, stiff bows from the waist, and military salutes.

It was a snap-shot of a children's frolic in a village street, with some onlookers in the background.

A very fine snap-shot reproduction of Henry VIII.

CHAPTER XXI THE BATTLE He had time to burst from the hut and race across the clearing through the darkness which would surely shelter him from the snap-shot of even such an expert as Red Jim, but in mind and body Hervey was too paralyzed by the appearance of his enemy to stir until he saw Perris slip from his horse, slumping to the earth after the fashion of a weary man, and drag off the saddle.

We went about day after day like a lot of lunatics, kodaks in hand, taking snap-shots at all the odd looking charactersand their name is legionthat we saw in the streets, and it was an unusual experience.

"We snap-shotted her paddling in the burn in Scotland a year or two ago.

"Pat" Brighte (she was Cleopatra Diamond Brighte who married Colonel Dearman of the Gungapur Volunteer Bines) found she had got a splendid snap-shot when her films were developed at Gungapur.

But of course you doyou have the snap-shot in your collection....

Then they snap-shotted us, and Octavia really does look rather odd, as her nose got out of focus, I suppose, and appears like Mr. Punch's; underneath is written, "An English Peeress and Society Beauty."

But all these abstract concepts are but as flowers gathered, they are only moments dipped out from the stream of time, snap-shots taken, as by a kinetoscopic camera, at a life that in its original coming is continuous.

Oh, here's a new picture of Alec, on the chimney-piecewhy didn't he send it to me?" "I could go over and let the Ferry people know you're here," suggested Joanna, watching Sally eye the small snap-shot likeness hungrily, so that it seemed a matter of charity to present some human creature to her gaze.

Saint-Gaudens gave a cast of this portrait to Miss Terry's daughter, Edith Craig] [Illustration: MISS ELLEN TERRY From a snap-shot taken in the United States]

[Illustration: SIR HENRY IRVING From a snap-shot taken in the United States]

My films are snap-shots, caught from the curbstone, from the gallery of an assembly, in a scholar's study, or by the light of a camp-fire.

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