He knew it was his snap judgment about Cohen that had been the cause of the object lesson he had just received.
The eyes were half their size, the snap all out of them, the whites lost under the swollen lids.
He heard the twigs snap beneath him, a drooping branch struck him hard; and then he gasped with horror.
He tells me that winter's beginning unusually soon; they've had what he calls a severe cold snapand the prairie's deep with snow.
The surface crust which breaks with a snap and sinks with a snap, startling men and animals.
For the moment the temperature is on the -20°--an improvement which makes us much more comfortable, but a colder snap is bound to come again soon.
If a cold snap follows before we have had time to dry our things, we shall be mighty uncomfortable.
The cold snap froze the water in the boiler and Williams had to light one of the fires this morning.
This brought into my mind the possibility of using the iron cross bar and snap heel strap of the Huitfeldt on a suitable overshoe.
Then snapthe whip, the bugle blow; For this is the famous Tally-ho.
He felt as if something must snap in brain or heart.
Gaspare bent forward, lifted his hands above his head, and began to snap his fingers in time to the music.
They fought each other like two bull-dogs, I should say for near an hour, till I heard the snap and jingle of a broken sword, and then one of them fled.
On the top of a low hill, a wind from the dawn struck him, and the paper in the bottom of the buggy began to snap against the dashboard.
I've always thought swells had a pretty soft snapwhen they went to bed; but I never counted on its bein' anything like this.
Plum says this is about the softest snap he ever struck, an' I want my share of it.
Say, ain't this the greatest snap you ever struck?
What's the reason you couldn't step out an' let me have the snapfor a spell?
She is likely to turn and snap at you when you least expect it.
Mignon will simply snap her fingers at Jerry and Jerry herself will resign rather than be in the same club with Mignon.
Thin wire cables were stretched along the curbs, to hold the people back, but these threatened to snap before the weight of the multitude.
Then his dark eyes would glow and he would snap his thumb nail under an upper tooth, with an expression of ravishing joy that only a Castilian billiard player could assume.
It was a delightful September afternoon, with a brisk snapin the air and floods of sunshine.
Getting up so early was a bit hard, and eating a cold luncheon harder still; but worst of all was having to hear him growl and snap at the clerks.
As for Alec, his one idea was to snap off an occasional picture that would show the astonishing thing he and his lucky comrades had run across when the motion-picture players came to make use of the imitation castle on the peak.
Alec had finished his work and had the well-developed films hanging to dry, securely fastened to his stout cord with snap clothes-pins, so there was no danger of any unfortunate catastrophe happening to them before they were thoroughly dry.
Our suits ought to tell you that," Alec managed to snap out, not fancying the idea of being forced to keep his hands elevated in such a fashion, just as though he might be a miserable criminal trying to escape from the penitentiary.
His words sounded to her like the snap of a steel trap.
I never heard of him before," murmured the woman, closing the volume with a gentle little snap of finality.
Only that if you made up your mind to turn Government’s witness and give the whole snap away; they’d be pretty apt to let you off easily.
Then Buster Bear started for his cousin, Bobby Coon, and his little eyes seemed to fairly snap fire.
In spite of the fact that his attention was all on Bobby Coon, he heard that little snap and whirled like a flash to see what had made it.
He had almost reached the water when he heard a twig snap at the edge of the woods.
The infuriated bear stopped just long enough to snap at the feathered shafts, and then it made a final rush at its foe.
She was watching him, studying him intently, when his blue eyes opened with a snap and his face suddenly brightened.
Make it concrete, to the point, with snap and go and life, crisp and crackling and interesting--tumble?
I will snap them unawares, and say, `I have taken several photographs of you this afternoon at moments which, perhaps, you would prefer not to have immortalised.
How on earth do poor girls manage to stand behind a counter all day, and not snap off the customers' heads?
I shall never marry; but if I do I shall wear my oldest clothes on my honeymoon, and snap at my husband every time he opens his mouth.
Mechanically he drew it out; and, as his eyes fell on the handwriting, something seemed to snap inside him.
You could tell without looking at her, just by the feel of the atmosphere when she was near, that she had as much snap and go in her as Jerry Moore hadn't, which was a good bit.
