He brushed his clothes and did what he could with the unruly crispness of his hair, and then he set out for the log house of Cyrus Spradling on the headwaters of Snag Ridge.
A nail proved a snag And tore her fine rag, She came back a la Aphrodite.
Elizabeth got about half-way down when her long satin dress and veil got caught on a nail or snag of some sort, and no matter how she pulled she could not get loose.
Her paddle still thrashed, but at a speed just great enough to overcome the current and to hold the snag in the wound it had made.
The many-fanged snag barely had been avoided as it reached the upward limit of its rhythmic rising and falling.
The snag now lay to port, the towhead to starboard, and holding a straight course the Missouri Belle crept slowly between them.
Well, you ran against a snagthat time, Mr. Sanguinary Stingaree!
But I'm the worst snag that ever either of you struck," he went on in his vainglory.
Near its center was an old dead tree; and on the tip of the topmost snag a lark sang.
Then the snag broke, just in the nick of time, for in a second more the boat would have been swept away.
Nor did they get free till Pepe lassoed a snag and pulled them out.
I chose a big cedar snag a few rods from the trail, the spreading kind that is always hollow, and found the opening screened in fern and just wide enough to let me in.
I grasped a stout snag and tried to swing myself over the place, but there came a splitting report; and there was just time to drop astride above that stub of limb, when the log parted below it, and I was in the river.
Snag is the name given in America to trees which stand nearly upright in the stream with their roots fixed at the bottom.
Snag is the name given in America to trees which stand nearly upright in the stream, with their roots fixed at the bottom.
One of them noticed that a skiff was coming up from Fort Pillow Landing, and fifteen minutes later Terabon was talking to Despard on the snag to one prong of which was fastened the line of Carline's motorboat.
Forest Service established a national snag policy requiring all Regions and Forests to develop guidelines to "provide habitat needed to maintain viable, self-sustaining populations of cavity-nesting and snag-dependent wildlife species.
The relationship of secondary cavity nesters to snag densities in western coniferous forests.
No particular snagdensity was recommended to managers.
We found three nests behind the loosened bark of dead ponderosa pines and one in a white fir snag in the White Mountains of Arizona.
Some Forest Service Regions had already established policies for snag management.
The height of the snag was not as important as the diameter, but snags more than 46 feet tall had more holes than did shorter ones.
There was a snag hard by, fast anchored in the bottom of the Bogue.
Perhaps a snag tossing in the motion of the water,--at all events, you can't say there was no water.
The nest of this bird is a very cozy affair sheltered in a hollow snagor post.
I found a nest of this interesting little bird in a rotten willow snag only a few feet from a small stream.
It also frequently excavates a cavity in some rotten snag or tree trunk.
About nine o'clock I found a little bayou in the dark woods, and moored my boat to a snag which protruded its head above the still waters of the tarn.
The antlers are large and curve forwards, giving off an upright snag near the base, and several vertical tines from the upper surface of the horizontal portion.
At the lower end of the valley the lava occupied a portion of a body of water now known as Lake Bidwell; its rugged front made a dam across the valley above, forming Snag Lake.
It formed a dam across a valley, thus creatingSnag Lake] One's feet sink deep into volcanic sands, and walking is tiresome.
Why, that the snag he ran into, or rather the snag the pilot ran him into, was a sunken brig that everybody on the island has known for years blocked the creek bottom.
First that stupid, drunken pilot runs us afoul of a snag and stove a hole in our bottom.
The snag caught on the low cow-catcher of the engine and gave the train a mighty jerk.
They forced the straight end of it under the track, leaving the bent end projecting toward the pursuers--a scarcely visible snag which would rip into the engine.
The bent rail which Andrews had left as a snag in the track would have wrecked Fuller if the Texas had been traveling forward instead of backward.
In fact, Fuller did not know until later, for he had not seen the snagahead of them, and he could see nothing as he looked back.
You can't see a snag in one of those shadows, but you know exactly where it is, and the shape of the river tells you when you are coming to it.
I had nothin' in the yearth but a small fancy pen knife, but I stuck that in him so quick that he let me go, and while he swam for one snag I reached for another.
I swore on that snag that I'd grow thin chasin' the critter, and she seemed to git pacified.
He took an observation, and found out just where the point of the snag seemed to be pressing into the bottom planks of the houseboat.
Jerry; thereby acknowledging that he had not kept as good a lookout ahead as a careful pilot should, or he would certainly have known where a snag lay hidden, by the swirl of water about it.
Must be a snag has hold of her, and is trying to turn her around!
To this mode of treating Snag I had no objection to make.
A snag is a log of timber stuck sloping in the mud.
I would have hurried to his assistance, but I dared not leave the helm, and Snag and the other men were so engaged in clearing the rest of the wreck, that they could make no attempt to lift up the yard so as to release him.
I moralised much in this strain as I waited to see what Snag and his companion would next do.
Such was the position in which I felt that I was placed with regard to Snag and his companion.
He had been absent for some time, and I began to fear that he had fallen into the power of Snag and the other man, who I felt sure would kill him if they could catch him.
Snag rushed after him but was driven back by the officer, who held a pistol towards his head as he approached the boat.
Desperately the boy strove to overtake the boat, and just as he was giving up hope, a friendly snag tempted the runaway to pause, and Piang's strong, young hand closed over the outrigger.
As long as the crocodile was on the other side of the boat, he was safe, but now--the snag creaked, stirred.
Every now and then we struck a snag which sent the dishes scurrying from the table.
But the boat struck a snag in the Missouri and, with a part of the cargo, was lost.
No man was too ragged, too dirty, or too drunk to cause Mr. Snag to be ashamed of his society.
Mr. Snag had been a clothing merchant, noted for close dealings with his customers and oppression of his employes; but two or three months before he announced himself a candidate, a change came over him.
