I, p. 449, Snick-a-Snee, The Dutch Lover, iii, III (p, 278).

" "Why then, Roger, do ye beset him in prayer, so, while thou dost hold him in play thus, I will snick away thy solitary notch so sweetly he shall never know" "Alack, 'twill not avail, Giles.

I'll trowl the bowls in the buttery by the leave of God and Master Barnes: and his men be good fellows, so it is; if they be not, let them go snick up.

With a sharp snick the lock flew back.

"He only snicked down vor a drop o' brandy, vur he were clean rampin' mazed wi' tuth-ache.

And if my mistress would be ruled by him, Sophos might go snick-up: but he has such a butter-milk face, that she'll never have him. SOPHOS.

'I saw you do it once before, and the horrible snick that it made haunted me for a long time.

There was a sharp snick, and the door revolved slowly upon its hinges.

It ended in a loud, sharp snick, as when one cracks one's joint, but many times louder.

It shut with a sharp snick, and there followed a long silence, broken only by the whimpering of the dogs.

The door might have been slammed by a sudden puff of wind owing to some inner door being opened; and as for the grip on the handle, that may have been nothing more than the snick catching.

My mother would not agree that she might have been sleepwalking; but she was ready to put the door opening down to the fault of the latch, which certainly snicked very lightly.

Immediately there was a sharp clang, as some catch snicked in, and held it against the powerful operating spring.

"Paula won't be down for hours," Miss Wollaston said, "but I do not see why she shouldn't hear, since she is a married woman and your own wife...." Her brother's "Precisely" cut across that sentence with a snick like a pair of shears and left a little silence behind it.

There, it's on again, snick!

' Roy slipped it in as though it were a toy, the breech-block snicked to, and five seconds later a second report roused the echoes.

Do you mind how you snicked Axelstein, and clipped Duke Casimir of his little finger at the back of the barn, when we were all lads at the Kaiser's first diet at Augsburg?" Old Dessauer smiled, well pleased enough at the excellence of the Prince's memory.

The Master snicked the switch of the magnetic-anchor release; and now the last bond that held Nissr to her cradle was broken.

Right into the eye of heaven she seemed to point, into a vast and profound blackness, that, as the Master snicked off the no-longer needed searchlight, unleashed myriad starsstars which leaped out of the velvet night.

And through the phone the Master heard the snick of a switch being hastily thrown.