As for appreciation, or gratitude, I don't care a snap of my finger for such fol-de-rol.

"All right," and I heard the snap of the connection.

The sacred cow got her horseradish first, and I could see she was trying to hold it without giving the snap away, till her husband, the bull, got his.

I got three snaps of each before they were too far away.

While taking the snap a returned emigrant workman spoke to Moorman in good English.

My dogs were lying round me blinking and winking, and making an occasional futile snap at an imaginary fly or flea.

The girls," he cried scornfully; "you bet they know a soft snap when they see it, and I am a soft snap, an' don't you forget it!

Thus would I go. And grant that when I face the grisly Thing, My song may triumph down the gray Perhaps! Let me be as a tuneswept fiddlestring That feels the Master Melodyand snaps.

Now we are once again at our wit's end, just where the reason of you mortals snaps!

With satisfaction he noted the exhilarating snap in the air.

He even recalled a curious evidence of exalted sensibility and irritability, in the twitching of the minute muscles of the internal ear at every unexpected sound, producing an odd little snap in the middle of the head, that proved to him he was getting very nervous.

Then she reached up and back, straining her arms to push the top snap of the corsage into place.

Our boys are used to hardship and exposure, and the hope of getting their freedom puts new snap into them.

On receiving the snap, Crusoe gave forth the roar with a majesty and power that scattered the pugnacious front rank of the enemy to the winds.

" "I have no doubt," she said, looking fairly at him from under her hand, which she held up to shade her face, so he saw only the snap of her eyes in the shadow.

He runs at the slightest show of teeth from a mother wolf half his size, and will stand meekly a snap of the jaws or a cruel gash of the terrible fangs in his flank without defending himself.

After supper, Miss Pennington lighted up her Dragon, and threw in her snaps.

Flyaway, who sat in Horace's lap, eating ginger-snaps, exclaimed, "She wants some perjerves, auntie.

I put the muzzle over his head, and, holding myself in readiness to elude a sudden snap, I strapped up his jaws.

"She says I'm lazy and got these callouses grabbing the soft snaps last summer in the mines," Jack called lightly, when finally it occurred to him that the world held more than two persons.

At camping to-night everyone was chilled and we guessed a cold snap, but to our surprise the actual temperature was higher than last night, when we could dawdle in the sun.

"If yer strikes him right dere wid der cushion meat on der lower edge of yer hand an' snaps yer hand erway like dis, it's dead sure ter break der bone.

"Lacks the snap of the last one.

" We left them engaged in this interesting distraction, the little rifle-snaps in all that mighty thundering seeming only to accent the loneliness and helplessness of their position, and spun on down the transverse road, toward another trench.