Dutch firelock of the 17th century: a snappish retort.
But they did not getsnappish nor lose their tempers.
Wherever he went he was so disagreeable and snappish that there wasn't a single person in the whole village that didn't wish Timothy had stayed away from that place.
But as the romantically impatient and sometimes a bit snappish Mrs. Penniman would say, he had never gone far.
You're too young to understand if I told you," she replied with a snappish dignity.
None of us have ever set foot across his threshold; and, the moment any one asks where he lodges, he grows as snappish as a bear, just as you saw him a few minutes ago.
This seemed to incite the fellows to strike up an acquaintance with her, and the short, snappish way in which she repelled their advances only fanned their impudence the higher.
Mr Tom Porter did not seem to object to snappish shortness, for he growled forth: "Come below?
Thisbe was "Nicely, thank you," but she did not say it nicely; it was snappish and short.
When he made his offering, it was received in a snappish and threatening manner, but swallowed with a facility that sufficiently proclaimed how much it was relished.
A cross-grained woman and a snappish dog take care of the house.
If we receive a snappish answer, let us not resent it, but blame the illness and be grateful if, along with the snappishness, we find out what suits our patient best.
His snappish feelings are just like a sore that is smarting and aching all the time, and when you get in their way it hurts as if you rubbed the sore.
Old Bultitude was very cross and snappish too, and he had taken it somewhat to heart that Daisy should have been the companion and friend of his Jessie.
As a fact, however, the snappish little doctor had never found his friend so morose and unpleasant as when he tried to sound him on this subject.
Meanwhile Mr. Bonamy went home, and finding his family already at breakfast, sat down to the meal in a very snappish humor.
He was all good-temper this morning; the unfortunate point about this being that his good nature was a shade more unpleasant than his usual snappish manner.
But she is more and more snappish and cross; and tauntingly calls me Mrs. Williams, and any thing she thinks will vex me.
In the end the bonnet was put away, but it is to be feared that that evening Jos was a littlesnappish with Miss Peacock when arraigned for some act of forgetfulness.
He felt there had always been a sort of undefined snappish battle between him and Winny; and he had the honesty of mind, as well as the vanity, to blame his own harsh and abrupt manner for this.
He was often from home for days together, and, when at home, often out at night until very late; and if questioned in the kindest manner by his father upon the subject, his answers were snappish and unsatisfactory.
A snappish cur, alone caress'd, By lies had banished all the rest.
Before the public they like to appear gentle, mild and sweet tempered, while in the privacy of their homes they are snarly, snappish and cross.
Should my children be a little trying, I would speak to them in a cross, snappish way.
I seem to see now, that her hard, snappish speeches (for she does snap sometimes) are not from absence of heart, but are simply a veil to hide the heart.
Lord Darcy had always been kind and considerate, but his manner seemed gentler and more courteous than ever, while Rosalind's amiability was an hourly surprise, and Lady Darcy's manner had lost much of its snappish discontent.
To see Peggy cross and snappish like--any other ordinary mortal was an extraordinary event, and quite alarming to her placid mind.
I should tell you, the fat Woman maintained that her snappish little Puppy had thrown the Robber off his Guard; but the Squire shook his Head upon't.
