Which preposition to use with snag
D'Israeli was the snag of PeelRussia was the snag of NapoleonSlavery is the snag of the Evangelical Alliance.
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.
Many social snags on which young ministers are sure to run, are simply the rudiments of social conduct, as practised by the world.
Who cannot call to mind many snagsmen, rugged, stubborn, and contentious,snags by all means to be avoided?
One stormy morning in winter when the Merced River was blue and green with unmelted snow, I observed one of my ouzels perched on a snag out in the midst of a swift-rushing rapid, singing cheerily, as if everything was just to his mind; and while I stood on the bank admiring him, he suddenly plunged into the sludgy current, leaving his song abruptly broken off.
but with a kind of mysterious smile, and a "I hope we sha'n't be snagged to-night!"
He went at them systematically, however, only to run against a snag within the hour.