They gave sullenly backward; they had to, yelping and snarling like a pack of wolves, hacking at me with their short knives.

Her eyes were like balls of fire, and she was spitting and snarling, as if to say, "If you touch me, I'll tear you to pieces!"

He gave up then, but he stood snarling at me like an ugly dog.

Now, this dog is a snarling, cross-grained, cantankerous beast, and when I heard Joe was coming, I said: 'Now we'll have a good dog about the place, and here's an end to the bad one.'

He was snapping and snarling and biting at his chain as he went along, though Mr. Wood led him very kindly, and when he saw me he acted as if he could have torn me to pieces.

Early in the night the fighting, snapping and snarling began, and the next morning the woods were filled with dead foxes, so it was years before the howl of another was heard.

The leopard, snarling, slunk away, attempting to avoid him, but he crowded it against the wall.

"Too late for one job, partner, but just in time for the next!" Arizona cursed softly, steadily, through snarling lips.

The gun was wrenched from her hand, and a powerful arm caught her and whirled her up, only to hurl her to the ground; Arizona's snarling, panting face bent over her.

In the very midst of that fury she felt Arizona stiffen and freeze; the snarling stopped; his nerveless arm fell away, and she was allowed to stagger to her feet.

Then he attacked Leothric, snarling, and again Leothric leapt aside, and smote him on the nose with his stick.

Through all the horrible sounds the woman made, Sheila could hear the snarling and leaping and snapping of the dogs.

Dirty little urchins abused them as they passed, snarling with assumed bravery, and prepared to run away at the first sign of attack.

That the laggards were overtaken was evidenced by the cries of distress that went up, and when later the pursuers returned, they brought with them the luckless and snarling Brick, still clinging fast to the bundle of kites.

They are all quiet now, those eager, snarling editors of fifty years since, and mostly forgotten.

At daylight I laid down, but had scarcely closed my eyes when I was roused up by the wolves snarling and howling around me.

Now and then, for the sake of appearances, they obscurely copy into their immense sheets an inch or two of complaints, from some snarling West India paper, that the emancipated are lazy and won't work.

The drama being incomplete, all that can be said is that Cæsar, in cynicism, effrontery, and snarling bitterness of spirit, is the exact counterpart of his prototype, Mephistophelês (1821).

He spoke, quickly and decidedly, and the roaring protest died down to a snarling, sobbing sound like the crying of a wounded animal.

But of a sudden his aspect changed; he started up, and spoke with a snarling emphasis.

* Enough of pessimistic snarling and grumbling!

Several modern managers have been equally appreciative, but it is a comfort to reflect that a portion of the fraternity are vast improvements on crusty Christopher, who was described by a contemporary as "an old snarling lawyer, master and sovereign; a waspish, ignorant pettifogger in law and poetry; one who understands poetry no more than algebra; he wou'd sooner have the Grace of God than do everybody justice.

The great lion was growling and snarling over the shin bone of an ox, cracking it like a nut, when by some mismanagement, one end of the pole upon which the chandelier was suspended fell down, striking the door of the cage in which the lioness was at supper, and bursting it open.

And, as all looked, something did strike the groundsomething that coiled and hissed and rattleda snake, crouched in the form of a letter S; and the lynx turned its head, snarling, every hair erect.

This only had a temporary effect, for shortly the last bit of cover was passed, and there within four hundred yards on the bar was a snarling, snapping band of gray wolves.