He felt instantly he had struck a snag.

They were going very slowly for fear of striking something, zig-zagging meanwhile to avoid snags.

It was the hardest kind of work, turning and twisting between the trees, dodging snags, and brushing aside branches, and guiding a horse among fallen logs.

His only care was to keep his boat head down, so that if he should encounter any snag or rock he might not be thrown broadside on.

R.C. added several more black-and-blue spots to his already spotted anatomy, and he missed, just by an inch, a solid snag that would have broken him in two.

They had a few boats employed once to raise the snags, but the thirst for annexation ran them into a war, and the money was wanted for that purpose.

From time to time he scanned shore and river for familiar points of interestsome remembered snag that showed the tip of one gnarled branch.

But it will root up the snags, run them down, split them, and scatter them to the four quarters.

I. It was a story the pilot told, with his back to his hearers, Keeping his hand on the wheel and his eye on the globe of the jack-staff, Holding the boat to the shore and out of the sweep of the current, Lightly turning aside for the heavy logs of the drift-wood, Widely shunning the snags that made us sardonic obeisance.

It has a most powerful engine; and when the crew discover a snag, which always lies with the stream, and is known by the ripple on the water, they run down below it for some distance in order to gather head-waythe boat is then run at it full tilt, and seldom fails of breaking off the projecting branch close to the trunk.