Which preposition to use with snapped

at Occurrences 154%

You need not wonder I sometimes turn round, and snap at my pursuers.

of Occurrences 90%

She could visualize that interior as if she had only to turn the frame for the smell of wood fire and the snap of pine logs and for the scene of two high-back chairs and the wooden crib between.

in Occurrences 55%

But there are such, and they may be seen and heard, barking, and snarling, and snapping in their envy, at honest peoples' heels every day.

with Occurrences 24%

And if the leading articles that they wrote of mornings stung and snapped with venom, it is natural that the book reviews on which they spent their afternoons had also some vinegar in them, especially if they concerned books written by those of the opposition.

like Occurrences 22%

His jaws snapped like castanets of steel,and the sound awakened him, and he sprang to his feet, his spine as stiff as a brush, and his snarling fangs bared like ivory knives.

off Occurrences 16%

" This said, she twists the thread around his ugly spindle once, 4 Snaps off the last bit of the life of that Imperial dunce.

on Occurrences 15%

His teeth snapped on empty air.

to Occurrences 12%

He was sunfishing now in that most deadly manner when the horse lands on one forehoof, the rider receiving a double jar from the down-shock and then the whiplash snap to the side.

under Occurrences 12%

His last clear thought had been an intense anxiety about his snow-shoes as they sailed away, two liberated kites, but as he went on falling, clutching at the airfallingand felt the alder twigs snap under his hands, he said to himself, "This is death," but calmly, as if it were a small matter compared to losing one's snow-shoes.

into Occurrences 12%

You say you have something you want to say to her, and then you snap into it.

from Occurrences 11%

At every jump Bull could see an imaginary rider snapped from the back of the black giant.

for Occurrences 6%

Kazan was quick to learn, still quicker to be guided by Gray Wolf, and he leaped in again, snapping for a hold on the bulging cord just above the knee.

about Occurrences 5%

There was a snap about his work which I had never witnessed before, even in Barmy Fotheringay-Phipps on New Year's Eve.

behind Occurrences 4%

A stick snapped behind Patrick, and the hair rose on the back of his neck.

over Occurrences 3%

Steel jaws snapped over one of his forefeet, and when he leaped, the chain stopped him.

within Occurrences 3%

Since his great happiness he had felt less strong, with an odd sensation, as if some delicate hidden spring had snapped within him.

across Occurrences 2%

The bombardment of the church must have been terrific, for even the heavy pillars of the aisle had been snapped across.

through Occurrences 2%

All at once a loud crash seemed to rend the very heavens above them: a crack as of the thunder that follows close upon the bolt,a rending and crushing as of a forest snapped through all its stems, torn, twisted, splintered, dragged with all its ragged boughs into one chaotic ruin.

beneath Occurrences 2%

To venture forth would mean certain discovery; nor could I hope to steal away through the bushes, where any twig might snap beneath my foot.

asunder Occurrences 2%

Religion, except from the emancipating energy of a few superior minds, which have dared to snap asunder the cords which bound them to the rock of error * * * has been suffered to remain in its principles and in its doctrines, just what it was when the craft of Catholic superstition first corrupted its simplicity.

as Occurrences 2%

It was a vital advantage for, as every one knows who has struggled with a pitching horse, it cannot buck with abandon while its chin is tucked back against its breast; only when the head is stretched out and the nose close to the ground can a bucking horse double back and forth to the full of his agility, twisting and turning and snapping as an "educated" bucker knows how.

between Occurrences 2%

And in front of him, facing him, stood a slim, six-foot whipper-snapper of a lieutenant, hatless, coatless, tireless, mercilessa creature whom Buzz at first thought he could snap between thumb and fingerlike that!who made life a hell for Buzz Werner.

after Occurrences 2%

Here is the apostrophe: "But yesterdayno later past than yesterdaythou didst bid thy mistress call at me from her balcony; thy servants by thy will did cast mud on me, and thy hounds sped snapping after me,'"whereby we may infer they went hunting in Venice, in the fifteenth century.

AT Occurrences 1%

KODAK SNAPPED AT JAPAN.

down Occurrences 1%

He saw the brown eye of Barker glued to the little circle of glass, and he crossed the room without a word and snapped down the black shutter provided for the purpose, and then heard Barker snuffle away along the passage.

Which preposition to use with  snapped