But we didn't pay those fellows out for throwing those snowballs; we must do it some other night.

And he landed a snowball on the colored man's shoulder.

On the window-sill above, two deft hands quickly scooped up and moulded a snowball.

The husband and wife passed into the garden between borders of boxwood, beyond which nodded the heads of Angy's carefully tended, out-door "children"her roses, her snowballs, her sweet-smelling syringas, her wax-like bleeding-hearts, and her shrub of bridal-wreath.

The argument got heated, and Johnson picked up a snowball and threw it at Jones from a distance of not more than five yards.

" "And it is not wet," added Peter who was trying to roll a snowball out of the white flakes that were piling themselves on the ground with amazing quickness.

Presently I shall go down to help them bombard him in it, and try to persuade them that it will last longer if they do not squeeze the snowballs too hard, for Evan has prohibited "baking" altogether.

"From the girls, I'll bet a snowball!" cried Tom joyfully.

This principle, however, is not universally observed; for we write snowball, whitewash, and many similar compounds, though the ball is snow and the wash is white; and linseed oil, or Newark cider, may be a good phrase, though the former word cannot well be predicated of the latter.